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The Culture of Marriage

So often when we look from the outside in at other couple’s marriage, we can see certain elements that are not always apparent to the couple involved in the marriage. What we are seeing is the way that marriage operates or its culture. In a lot of buinesses and sporting teams they talk about the culture of the business or of the club. In his book Transforming Company Culture, David Drennan descrivbes culture is ‘what is typical of an organisation, the habits, the prevailing attitudes, the grown-up pattern of accepted and expected behavior.’ Surely, this is equally true of a … Continue reading →

More Tips for Dealing with Stress in Marriage

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Here are some more tips to help you deal with stress in your marriage and your life. Spend time each day deliberately not thinking about the negatives and what is wrong with your marriage or life, but look for 1-3 positives each day in your marriage and in your life. When you start looking for positives I’m sure you’ll find some. A gratitude journal is a good idea for keeping an eye on the positives on your life. Listening to music soothes our soul as one of our local choir songs reminds me. Sing along. Who cares what it sounds … Continue reading →

Keys to a Lasting Marriage

Whether you’re famous as a prince or a queen or whether you’re just Mr., Mrs. or Ms Average, is love and passion the most important thing in a marriage? And just how important is it to be good friends with your spouse? I’d suggest no matter what your status in life being good friends with your spouse is critical. Prince Phillip, husband of Queen Elizabeth 2nd, is about to set a new record. He will become Britain’s longest serving consort. At 87, Prince Philip is already ‘the oldest serving partner of a reigning monarch.’ Now you might conclude that the … Continue reading →

Can You Outgrow Your Marriage?

This is a difficult question. We outgrow clothes when we are little. We outgrow toys. We outgrow activities and grades. We even outgrow some of our friends. But can we really outgrow our marriage? If we can outgrow it, what do we do? How do we cope with it? This is more than a difficult question, it’s a difficult series of questions. To Outgrow Someone Outgrowing our friends happens when our interests diverge. This is a real problem when we’re teenagers and girls understand this concept a little bit better than boys (or so I think). Girls mature faster in … Continue reading →

Cheating Made Easy

Cheating on your marriage partner has never been easier. The internet is making it easier for couples to hook up with others who are looking for affairs. A relatively new website makes it even easier for the average person to make connections with those looking to go outside the boundaries of marriage. According to an article in Time magazine ,679,000 people have used the cheater’s internet site. Of these users 92% of males are married while 60% of females who use the site are married. In the last year membership of the site has doubled to 4 million. These are … Continue reading →

Making Allowances

We’ve often been told, ‘patience is a virtue.’ Nowhere is this a more important virtue than in marriage. We not only need to be patient with our spouse, though that certainly helps, we need to be patient in our expectations of ourselves and our marriages. You and I don’t get it right all the time, so we shouldn’t expect our spouse too either. In other words we need to do as it says on my calendar for yesterday and ‘Be humble and gentle. Be patient with each other, making allowance for each other’s faults because of your love.’ Sound like … Continue reading →

The Fine Art of the Apology

Learning to apologize well can be one of the hardest things we humans learn. I don’t know about you, but even though I thought I had it down pretty well, motherhood has added a whole new layer and lots of wrinkles to apologizing. Learning how to apologize to our kids, ask for forgiveness, and model forgiving and understanding behaviors as a parent can be tough. Now I know what is meant by the “art” of apology. Knowing when, how, and doing it with honesty and humbleness as a mom or dad is challenging! I know there are those parents who … Continue reading →