Marriage and Divorce

What do women want? Everything. There are times when a woman will want you to listen and a time when she will want you to talk. She will alternate between wanting companionship and time to herself. She wants you to…
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We live in an age of busy schedules, where it seems that each day is short on time. This feeling can start to take a toll on relationships; with so much running around, couples often resign themselves to believing their…
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Love and understanding are at the top of the list on this title! With love, comes understanding and with understanding, comes more love! It’s pretty simple! A Husband should not be expected to change what he is! A husband should…
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Planning for a financially sound marriage might sound as unromantic as it gets.  However, in a few years time, arguments about spending, crippling debts and building resentment are going to create a lot of problems.  Preventing this happening in the first…
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There are many things that a married couple can do for little or no money-be it inside or outside of the home.  For starters, they can go to carnivals, festivals and exhibitions.  For small costs, a married couple can be serenaded…
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It is an unfair burden on anyone to be responsible for someone else’s happiness, however, if a wife desires to be happy there are countless ways her husband can help her get there. He can love her unconditionally, he can respect her, he…
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The ways to say “I love you” are virtually endless. The best way to say I love you is not only to say it and write it, but to show it as well. The most considerate way is to tailor…
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You’ve been married for sometime and despite the fact that your love is still alive, the spark you had when dating seems to be diminishing.  Watch out! You don’t want the sparks to stop feeding the flame do you?  Well…
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I have been happily married for 23 years (wow)! I met my husband when I was 16 years old and I dated him all through high school. We got married 6 months after I graduated I was 19. We were…
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Marriage is a partnership build on love, trust and effective communication and to make it work and to keep it fresh, it needs to be constantly monitored and worked at. In the process of becoming older and discovering new experiences,…
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Once you are married and have children it is so easy for you both to become known every waking hour as just mummy and daddy. If you allow this to happen, believe me your marriage will go stale very fast…
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We are in a generation where we have some women to be the bread winner in a particular household and in other situations both men and women work hard in order to earn a good and comfortable living for themselves,…
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She merely wanted to apologize to her high school sweetheart for breaking up with him over a misunderstanding.  Two years later, two marriages were angrily dissolved, the children were reeling as they tried to make sense of the disparate households they were now asked…
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What I am about to tell you is not a new concept, although you will not get this kind of advice very often when dealing with a cheating spouse because most people don’t think adultery is fixable.  But I am…
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Let’s face it, a man’s home is not his castle, or even anything close. If it’s anyone’s castle, it’s the woman’s, because she’s the one that winds up making most of the decisions about the things that go on in…
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love watching the series “Army Wives” on the Lifetime channel.  It almost accurately describes what it’s like to be a woman either with a loved one in the military or serving herself.  It also shows the trials, pain, and suffering these…
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The biggest myth about marriage is that it takes a lot of work if you want things to work out well. This is just not true; if you have the kind of marriage that most everyone wants, than the things…
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Everyone likes to know that they look good. When you look good you feel good and it can be very good for your confidence. However when you focus too much on you, you lose focus on other things like your…
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So you found Mr. Right. Unfortunately, he was once married to Mrs. Wrong. She still creates mayhem at every opportunity, and they have children together, which adds a whole new set of issues into the mix. Welcome to the world…
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A lot of people focus on their own appearance.  Sometimes they do this for their partner, yet at times it can have the opposite effect and drive away their partner.  The following are ways in which this could happen. Their…
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People get married for different reasons. It is for these reasons that a marriage can continue without the couple being in love or end at its early stages. Marriages based on finances will exist for as long as money is…
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Okay ladies, put down your lattes and your Palms, your laundry baskets and play date schedules.  Men, drop your Blackberrys and laptops, your meetings, and bromance obligations.  Let’s pick up a pen and notepad and learn how to make time…
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I often remind couples when they are going through problems in their marriage that before they can save their marriage from divorce they need to work on saving themselves. In other words they need personal healing and restoration. In utter…
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I’m going to be the best wife ever! How many young and dreamy eyed teenage girls or young brides have uttered those words out loud or secretly thought them? I know I have thought it and said it a few…
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Jealousy can have detrimental effects on your marriage. In order to prevent the worst from happening, it is necessary to learn to identify some basic warning signs. That way, you will be able to formulate an action plan which can…
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It can be difficult to schedule a regular date night when you have kids, however it can be done.  The following tips can help you accomplish the seemingly impossible.  Pick a night that will be good for both of you…
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There are some pitfalls that can make it more difficult to have a successful marriage.  The following are some such hazards. Not communicating Many people would say that communication is the key to marriage, thus it is important to have…
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Men work.  Women clean, cook, raise the kids, and do the shopping…right?  WRONG.  Many women of today work just as hard as any man since the dawn of time has worked.  They have meetings, demanding bosses, crazy clients and that…
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Sometimes, because people are so inside of their relationships, they can’t see them for what they truly are; for example, sometimes people can’t tell if the person they see every day still loves them because they see them every day….
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Even a relationship that starts with the best of intentions can turn into a boring one. Without the proper attention, a relationship can easily lose all passion, all the excitement that made adrenaline rushing through the veins in the beginning…
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