Category: family
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A Special Love for Special Needs: Staying Strong in the Face of Autism
Is your marriage strong enough to endure the challenges of autism? Living with a family member on the autism spectrum can make communication difficult. Whether it’s your spouse, your child or yourself, trying to break through the communication barrier to have a fulfilling relationship can be so taxing that it takes away from other family…
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What to Expect When You’re Expecting Step Children- A Step Parent’s Guide
Did you grow up dreaming of the day that your life would turn into an episode of The Brady Bunch? Probably not. Blended families – those with children from previous relationships – are becoming the norm. That means more and more people are facing the challenges of being a step parent every day, and many…
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Entrepreneurship & Marriage: Mixing Business and Pleasure
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in advice, anxiety, communication, family, fighting, intimacy, marriage, podcasts, romance, stress, technology, television, workWould your relationship be more successful if it were treated like a business? Mixing business with pleasure. Some live by this motto, others try everything they can to avoid it. It’s difficult to maintain or even improve your marriage with a spouse that is constantly “on the clock”. What if you could take the working…
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Love at First Use: An Inside Look at Substance Abuse and Marriage
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in abuse, addiction, advice, anger, communication, counseling, dependency, depression, family, fighting, intimacy, marriage, podcasts, stressIs your marriage built on an unhealthy foundation of substance abuse and false feelings? Maybe you met your partner at a bar. Things went well, the alcohol helped to take off the nervous edge and before you knew it you were both head over heels in love. Throughout dating and even into marriage substances were…
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Death by Technology: How to Unplug Your Marriage
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in anger, appreciation, blame, Charlotte, communication, conflict, family, internet, intimacy, marriage, podcasts, romance, stress, technologyDoes your marriage have what it takes to unplug from the technology of the modern world? Has technology killed your marriage? Modern technology can do almost anything, from translating a foreign language to shooting angry birds at random objects. No one could have ever suspected that something that is helpful with so many things could…
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Couples Conquering Conflict
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in advice, anger, appreciation, betrayal, blame, coaching, communication, conflict, control, counseling, family, intimacy, marriage, podcasts, stressIs your marriage strong enough to withstand the forces working against it? Many couples, the lucky ones, never have to do much when working on their marriage. Perhaps it’s luck or maybe even genuine compatibility. These couples aren’t the norm. Normal couples will fight, bicker and yell…and they’ll do it often. The question is, can…