Articles by James
Marriage & Relationships
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Making Marriage Work Part 3: Owning Your Feelings
Marriage counselling asks each partner to take responsibility for their own feelings. This article explores how commitment, humility, and emotional ownership can support the work.
Making Marriage Work – Part 2: Humility
Humility helps partners listen, acknowledge mistakes, and communicate more openly. Learn why it matters in marriage counselling.
Making Marriage Work Part 1: Commitment
Commitment is an important starting point for marriage counselling. This article explains what it can mean for couples beginning the process.
Falling Out Of Love – Part 4: Understanding Your Attachment Style
Attachment style can shape how people experience closeness and security in marriage. Learn how understanding your pattern may help you build a stronger connection.
Falling Out Of Love – Part 3: Signs of Love In Trouble
Spending less quality time together can be a sign of strain in a marriage. This article looks at signals that a relationship may need attention.
Falling Out Of Love – Part 2: Understanding How Love In Marriage Works
People can experience love in marriage in different ways. This article explores how those experiences shape connection and disappointment.
Falling Out Of Love – Part 1: Defining Love
Feeling Loved In Marriage
Marriage Communication That Works
Learning How To Communicate And How Not to Botch It Up!
Poor communication in marriage can be a very serious problem but the good news is that the problem is fixable. Communication at best can be a tricky endeavour especially when your own feelings and beliefs get in the way. Fred and Doris, who came in for some counselling, have been married for over 10 years. They have become increasingly frustrated with each other and have grown apart. This couple once happily married no longer feels love for each other. Where they used to laugh and play together now they avoid each other and when they…
Why I Married The Person I Did?
Unless you had a pre-arranged marriage you married for “love”. Let’s be more precise, you married because your emotional needs were being met by the one you had been dating and engaged to. Here is where the problem comes into play.
Your unconscious mind is that part of you that is much like…
How To Meet Your Wife’s Number One Need: Affection
Happy Wife, Happy Life: keys to a successful marriage
Staying Happily Married For Life: Part 2 – Equality
