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The Best Gift to Give Your Wife This Year
“Anything in life that we don't accept will simply make trouble for us until we make peace with it. "Shakti Gawain I don’t want to sound hokey, but the best gift you can give to your wife doesn’t come in a box. It’s also not just a once-a-year at the holidays thing....
Dealing with Rejection from Your Wife
“We fear rejection, want attention, crave affection, and dream of perfection.” Mac Miller Two separate emails collided for me this week around the topic of physical intimacy. I’m taking it as the universe wanting me to address this important marital topic. Because it...
Get Your Marriage Through the “Most Wonderful Time of the Year”
“If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail!” Benjamin Franklin As you find yourself in the middle of “the most wonderful time of the year”, you may want to ask what does and doesn’t make it that way. For you. For your wife. For your marriage, your kids, your...
Gratitude Leads to Happiness
"The heart that gives thanks is a happy one, for we cannot feel thankful and unhappy at the same time.” - Douglas Wood Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. I don’t like skipping from Halloween straight to Christmas because this incredibly powerful day gets...
A Good Marriage Needs Strong Boundaries
"When we fail to set boundaries and hold people accountable, we feel used and mistreated.” – Brene Brown In a recent post, I talked about the need for both compassion and accountability in your marriage. And the path to accountability runs directly through boundaries....
Compassion in Your Marriage Does Not Replace Accountability
"Acknowledgment of torture is not accountability for it." Yousef Munayyer Last week a reader responded to my article that they, “had tried compassion but it made things worse.” No details were provided but it made me realize that I needed to do a follow-up piece....
Your Marriage Needs More of This
" Don’t be mean. There’s no need to be mean." Buckaroo Bonzai When I was in high school, the boy’s vice principal wanted to move our graduation from the football field, where it was traditionally held, to a more contained environment. (Hall of Liberty at Forest Lawn...
The Impact on Your Marriage of Needing to be “Right”
"Our addiction to always being right is a great block to the truth." Stephen Levine My father was an engineer to his core. Unfortunately, it contributed to one of his least admirable behaviors—correcting my mother. She would be telling a story and say something like,...
Flexibility is Key to a Happy Marriage
“Change is the only constant in life." Heraclitus There’s a saying that men marry hoping their wives won’t change and women marry hoping their husbands will. There is a bit of truth in both positions. Who each of you are at your core will not change. The rest is up...
The Impact of Accountability on Your Marriage
“The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.” ― C.G. Jung A colleague of my husband’s said to him one day, “You are the master of your intent. The other person is the master of your impact.” He was talking about business, but I believe it applies...
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