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The Best Thing You Can Do For Your Marriage and Your Family

Someone recently asked in the forum about the responsibilities of fathers. I believe the best thing a man can do for his children is to love his wife and the best thing a woman can do is to love her husband. It is best for the children and also for each other that you show your spouse that you love them by your words and by your actions. Your spouse needs to know that they are the most important person in your life. Yes, the kids may be important and you want them to know how much you love them. … Continue reading →

Spiritually Recharge Your Marriage

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Most all couples struggle with their relationship at some point in time. Some couples have deeper struggles than others but all couples come to a point in their marriage when they feel that they need to strengthen their bond. The strength of your marriage may depend on the basis of your relationship. Do you measure your happiness on the circumstances in your life or do you base it on a deeper feeling? If your marriage is based on the current circumstance then you are happy when everything is right in your life. However couples that base their marriage on a … Continue reading →

Tips for Staying Connected During the Holidays

It is way too easy to get sidetracked with holiday preparations, which can lead to one spouse or the other feeling left out. These tips will help make sure your spouse knows you’re thinking of him or her, despite the fact that you are incredibly busy during these last days leading up to Christmas: Mail your spouse a Christmas card with a sweet, handwritten message inside. Sure, you could just give it to him or her, but mailing it will be a surprise and it shows a little extra effort. Slip a treat into your husband or wife’s pocket, bag, … Continue reading →

Your Marriage: Cycles and Patterns

Do things seem to run in cycles in your relationship? I’m not talking about actual cycles, like PMS for example, I’m talking about something a bit more difficult to pinpoint. Do you see patterns in your marriage, such as times when you feel that you and your spouse are really on the same page, followed by days or even weeks of feeling distant? I have noticed certain patterns or cycles in different relationships, including my own, and I think it helps to identify them. It took me a long time to figure it out, but my parents were always impatient … Continue reading →

The Rule of Three: Tips to Enhance the Positive in your Relationship

When it comes to marriage, there is often a period of indifference that occurs because you have been together for years and the honeymoon, as they say, is over. Indifference is not as bad as a troubled relationship, however – indifference can lead to a trouble relationship as the two of you seek out other sources of emotional comfort and friendship and turn away from rather than towards each other. If you suspect something like this is happening or if you are just interested in preventing this from happening in your relationship – the following three tips are methods that … Continue reading →

A Basic Human Right

Are you depriving your children of a basic human right? Shelter, food and love are basic human rights and ones that all children deserve to experience. But UK author Michael Morpurgo, has added another to that list. His view is that parents who don’t read to their children are depriving them of a basic human right. I agree. You might say time is the problem. I heard someone on the radio the other day say ‘time is a luxury item these days.’ Maybe so. But we all have the same number of hours in a day. No matter how busy … Continue reading →

Can Things Ever be the Same?

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Every relationship hits down times when things are less than perfect. In some cases the partners are unsure exactly what it is that is keeping them at odds and in some cases there is a definite occurrence that has the relationship on rocks. Everything is great and you feel that your mate is the most wonderful person in the world, and then something happens. You see him or her in a whole new light. Your feelings are not as strong as they once were and you begin to feel a distance among the two of you. This occurrence that places … Continue reading →

The Final Styles of Love

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In two previous articles, I have discussed that perhaps love is not the same to everyone. In fact there are various styles of love. The first two styles of love discussed were eros and ludus. The next two included agape and storage. There are two styles of love left to be discussed. The last two styles of love are mania and pragma. Mania is much like it sounds. People who love with style are often the ones that we consider to be “crazy in love”. These people are completely consumed by the love. It takes over their life and often … Continue reading →

More Styles of Love

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In a previous article I began discussing the meaning of love. I described how one article that I read suggested that there are different forms of love. Not everyone has the same feeling when they use the word love. It seems that while most all people use the phrase “I love you” they may have very different ideas about what the phrase means. The first two styles of love that were discussed were eros and ludus. Eros is what most would consider the honeymoon stage of love when couples are passionate and romantic. Ludus is the style of love in … Continue reading →

Are There Different Styles of Love?

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I had really never put a lot of thought into the different ways that people perceive love. I know that people can feel love in many different forms. However until recently I really had never thought about there actually being different styles of love. We use the term “in love with” so generally that at times it can be difficult to place a specific definition on the phrase. One article that I came across stated that not only do people feel and perceive love differently; there are different forms or styles of love that people may experience. In most cases, … Continue reading →