The Marriage Blog

​Ludwig Van Beethoven was the most famous and influential composers that ever lived. By his late 20’s his hearing began to deteriorate and by the end of his life he was completely deaf. Many of…

​In the classic book How to Stop Worrying and Start Living, Dale Carnegie tells the story of a young man who worried himself into a nervous breakdown. He worried about everything: his weight, his hair,…

​“The grass is not greener on the other side; the grass is greener where you water it!” One of the most unfortunate realities in marriage is the phenomena of extramarital affairs. According to a recent…

​True of False? “Happy Wife, Happy Life!” Not surprisingly, the correct answer to this ditty is true. But not for the reasons often implied. Usually when we use this phrase, the implication is that if…

When you have something of great value, your natural inclination is to protect it. For most of us our most expensive assets are our homes and cars. For this reason, most of us have home…

​“There is no hope for my marriage. It can’t be fixed!” I hear this sentence several times a week. These are words spoken by really wonderful people, who really believe that the statement is true.…

Can you guess what the biggest enemy to your marriage will be in 2016?  Maybe it will be finances?  The fear or reality that you might not have enough financial resource to accomplish all of…

This Christmas Season, consider taking the Mistletoe Challenge!  Kissing under the mistletoe is an ancient tradition, and one that many continue to embrace over the Christmas Holiday’s.  The Celtic Druids were the first people to…

In today’s post I want to talk about a phenomenon that creates havoc in marriages. It is known as the dreaded “mid-life crisis”. All of a sudden, as if from nowhere, your spouse comes home…