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The Way You Treat Your Spouse

by Dale Harcombe

02 Sep 2009 07:56 PM

The way you treat your spouse can affect more than your spouse. It could affect the next generation and even future generations. One marriage quote I like and can really see the sense of is 'Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you,' Robert Fulghum.

Essentials for a Happy Lasting Marriage -Part 2

by Dale Harcombe

07 Aug 2009 02:30 PM

Yesterday I looked at five essentials for a happy lasting marriage. Today I am continuing with another five essentials. 6. Forgiveness Married life isn't always go to go along smoothly. We all do things wrong and things that hurt or upset our spouse.

Essentials for Happy Lasting Marriage

by Dale Harcombe

06 Aug 2009 02:16 PM

Here are my first five essentials for a happy lasting marriage. Last night as Mick and I played a game of Settlers of Catan, I was thinking about our marriage and thinking about how far we've come over our more than 40 years of marriage from that young couple that started out together.

Warning Signs a Marriage Is in Trouble

by Dale Harcombe

24 May 2009 05:03 PM

On the radio yesterday I heard this comment, 'our senses warn us of danger, we hear it, we see it, we react.

What Would You Not Forgive?

by Dale Harcombe

04 Apr 2009 08:41 PM

What would you not forgive? That was one of the topics we talked about yesterday with another younger married couple. Mick and I had already discussed it earlier. We both agreed the one area we would struggle to find hard to forgive - is our spouse having an affair.

10 Things You Don't Say To Your Wife

by Heather Long

06 May 2008 02:49 PM

Occasionally men need reminders and husbands need them even more so. I'm lucky, I have a husband that listens when he's told that saying something 'like that' is probably not a good idea.

Top Ten Male Stereotypes

by Sherry Holetzky

19 Mar 2007 08:54 AM

What is a stereotype? It is generally an idea or a perception about a specific demographic that may have some truth to it but is not likely to be true of all persons in that demographic. Still, we all tend to hold common stereotypes of certain people in mind.

Top Twelve Marriage Articles of 2006

by Heather Long

23 Dec 2006 01:33 PM

Can you pick the best marriage article of 2006? I've been writing here since the end of December of 2005 and I can't tell you how hard this list was to compile, I chose one article from every month of this year and I still don't think I've done every article here justice.

The Last Ten Years

by Heather Long

20 Dec 2006 10:16 AM

Have you heard this recent release by Kenny Rogers? I caught it quite by accident on the radio a couple of days ago and I've listened to it several times since then. My husband and I have spent the last ten years together and so a song called The Last Ten Years gets my attention.

10 Mistakes That Make a Bad Marriage

by Heather Long

10 Nov 2006 10:25 AM

It's hard to put a finger down on what makes a marriage go bad. It can be bad attitudes, it can be accenting the negative, and it can even be an inability to forgive.



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