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Guidelines for Ending an Addiction-Destroyed Relationship
What do you do when the person you love gets consumed by a disease (addiction) that's beyond your control? How do we know when it's time to leave and how do you manage to adjust to life without your actively addicted partner?
Job Loss and Marriage - 8 Tips for Coping with Unemployment Stress
With the ongoing financial crisis and loss of jobs and unemployment benefits, a marriage can be stressed to the breaking point. Here are 8 marriage-protecting tips to help you cope - and thrive - through hard financial times.
Seven Habits of Highly Successful Couples
Experience and research identify seven factors that keep a relationship going. Cultivate these habits and stay with your partner forever.
Dating: How to Handle Different Opinions about Acceptable Alcohol Use
Building a new relationship: are you over-reacting or does your partner have a potential alcohol problem? How can you tell? What should you do?
Marriage Therapy on Your Own? How to Improve Your Relationship when Your Partner Won't Come Along
Find out how marriage therapy can save your relationship - even when your partner won't get involved.
Do You Need Couples Counseling? Ask Yourself 12 Questions and Find Out
Sure, things aren’t great… but are they bad enough to warrant couples counseling? Probably better to err on the side of caution, but if you’re really not sure, take this quick and easy self test designed to diagnose a relationship in distress.
Couples Counseling – Dealing with Differing Intimacy Needs
What do we do when our needs for intimacy are different? One person needs more cuddling. The other wants more sex. One person wants more talking time. The other wants more kisses.
Depression and Relationships – Living with a Depressed Spouse
Depression and healthy relationships don’t often go hand in hand – after all, people experiencing depression have trouble caring about their own life, let alone the wants and needs of those around them. Nevertheless, depression treatments work well and an understanding partner can be invaluable to someone going through mental illness – and there is light at the end of the tunnel. Learn what you can do to help when your romantic partner suffers from depression.
After Infidelity – Can Marriage Counseling Help?
Although infidelity can end a marriage, it doesn’t have to. Read what the experts recommend you do after learning of an affair and, if you decide to reconcile, learn what steps you can take to rebuild your marriage after such a betrayal of trust.
Couples Counseling
Although most people only consider getting marriage or couples counseling in the face of very difficult relationship problems (which is a good time to consider couples counseling!) couples counselors can also help people even in satisfying relationships get more enjoyment out of their union.
Mindset for Marital Success - The 10 Elements of Successful Marriages
Although nobody can guarantee a successful marriage, here are the attitudes you need as a couple to build a happy lifetime partnership.