What Is A Minimoon And Why Do You Need One? Looking for an exciting, stress-free way to celebrate your marriage? Choosing a short vacation to give you time to relax as you ease yourself into married life is one of the best recommendations you can take. A minimoon is shorter than the traditional honeymoon, and…
Many couples look forward to the day they can create a family. Kids are supposed to be a joy and make their parents’ lives better. But this isn’t always the case. Being a parent is quite stressful. And as a result, it isn’t uncommon for relationships or marriage difficulties after baby to arise. That doesn’t…
Money issues between couples cause problems in any relationship or marriage. As much as a third of adults with partners indicate that money is a huge source of conflict with their partner. Thus it is no surprise that financial problems are listed among the leading cause of divorce and break-up. Key to avoiding this is…
Sharing a connection with someone close to us is one of the most basic needs any person will experience. This includes closeness with friends, family, peers, and especially another person in a relationship. Being intimate is part of such relationships and expresses things like love, physical contact, trust, and closeness. Being intimate with your partner…
After getting married, some find they have difficulty expressing their true emotions to their spouse. Much of what they learned about emotional expression may have come from experiences in their families growing up. For example, in my family, displaying any emotion besides happiness was discouraged. I was taught that if I was feeling any kind…
Before I got married, I had a lot of people offer me warnings: “You’ll probably fight a lot more,” “There will be little things about him that annoy you” and so on. However, there was one warning that no one gave me, but turned out to be huge. Sleeping with someone when you’re used to…
When I tell people I am getting a Master’s degree in Marriage, Family, and Human Development they immediately jump to the conclusion that I want to do therapy. Like them, when I began my degree in Family Studies my intention was to go into therapy because that was what I knew. I believed couples were…
Times are changing, this is nothing new. One particular area of change has been marriage trends, especially who is marrying whom. Before the 1960s, only 20% of married couples were interfaith – with each spouse having their own faith different from the other – currently around 39% of marriages are. Interfaith marriages bring with them…
There is No One-Size-Fits-All Regimen to Marriage Arguments, but These Are a Few Recommendations. Some of the most challenging parts of a young marriage are the biases and preconceived notions that a partner will bring to a relationship from his or her parents. Yes, we come into a relationship very biased on how it…
Most of us think about sex in a way that sets ourselves up for future or current failure. Here are three ways to…
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