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The Other Sex: Language Matters
Language not only expresses our conscious and subconscious thoughts, but it also influences them. Next time you find yourself talking about the ‘opposite’ sex – try using ‘other’ sex and see if it takes you to a different way of seeing our differences.
Role Models for Marriage
Every marriage needs role models, couples to look up to and imitate – usually parents. But for young people raised without stable, marital role models, mentors can fill the gap, offering hope and guidance.
Success Breeds Success
Some people think failure is the best way of learning, including in relationships. But it's not. While we can learn from both failing and succeeding, being in a successful relationship is actually the best learning opportunity.
Why We Aren’t Getting Married and Having Kids—and How to Change That
The number of people getting married and having kids has been steadily declining. Here are three reasons why, and what we do to reverse this society-destroying trend.
What We’ve Learnt after 20 Years of Marriage
After 20 years of marriage, Matt and Alecia Zoccoli, dear friends of Dads4Kids, posted a 1-minute video revealing what they learnt to keep their relationship healthy and strong. Enjoy!
The BS Detector: Body vs Verbal Language
Body language is indeed a powerful communicator. It’s even more powerful than verbal language. In fact, when it comes to matters of the heart, our body is more believable than our words.
Fatherhood Changes Everything
When you begin your fatherhood journey, you know the world is forever different. Three critical truths – and implementing them – will pay off for the years to come.
Origin Families and Their Impact
Our family of origin makes leaving and cleaving complicated! When we marry, we each bring an inherited mental picture of what a spouse ‘should’ be. That makes things interesting...
Positive Thinking
When we capitalise on the positive events and good ideas, we lift each other and our marriage up. This enhances our relationship and builds marriage resiliency.
Compound Wounds: What They Are and How To Heal Them
Emotional wounds often persist unnoticed beneath the surface. When we experience a similar incident, the old wound can be activated along with the new one, compounding our pain. But there is hope.
A Habit of Thanks
Positive thinking works. It really does. One of the most effective ways to deepen our bonding is to verbalise our gratitude to each other.
Going the Distance is Easier Together
We’ve all heard marriage is a long-distance journey, but what happens when it feels like a marathon with no finish line?
War and Peace on the Home Front
Is your marriage more of a battlefield than the safe, peaceful harbour it is intended to be? Here are three top tips to stop that negative spiral of action and reaction.
Catch These 5 Little Foxes to Improve Your Relationships Instantly
Let’s go “fox hunting.” Catch these “little foxes” of strife, jealousy, anger, ambition, and division and watch your relationships instantly improve.
Soulful Communication
Communication has long been seen as the key to a healthy marriage. Modern experts call this wisdom into question, suggesting that it is not communication, but connection that is the key to lasting marital happiness.
Here Are the Five Words That Will Heal Any Marriage
The relationship will never work if both people are selfish and want to be served. When both people are selfless and serving, the relationship HAS TO WORK. Here are five areas that will bring new life to any and every marriage.
Romanticism is Killing Marriage. Is It Time to Rethink Some Things?
Is our current model of marriage the right one? Is it here to stay? Or will historians one day look back and wonder: What were those neurotic, romantic fools thinking?
Editing Ourselves
Decades of messy conversations have taught us that timing matters. Editing ourselves – and choosing the right moment – almost always leads to better listening, deeper understanding, and a stronger connection.
Is Marriage No Longer Worth It for Men?
In a time when the view of marriage has shifted from a lifelong vow with responsibilities and duties to a feelings-based contract, marriage can really seem devoid of worth. Yet this viewpoint is incorrect and even dangerous.
How to Help a Struggling Marriage
Research shows that before divorce, 72% of individuals reach out to family and friends. Here's how to respond effectively when a spouse or a couple seeks your help for a struggling marriage.
The Keys to a Happy Marriage
According to research from the Institute for Family Studies and the Wheatley Institute, there are four things which drastically increase the chance of a happy marriage, and as a result, greatly diminish the odds of divorce.
Sleeping with a Different Woman Every Night
Thinking of our marriage as ‘sleeping with a different person every night’ is a fun but also powerful reminder that we need to both expect and look for change in each other, every day.
Keeping Love Alive in the Present Moment
Our romantic memories are the fabric of our couple history. When we reconnect with these memories, we reinvigorate our love and emotional connection in the present and set a positive tone for our future together.
Learning to Love
As C.S. Lewis wrote, don’t lock up your heart in a "coffin of your selfishness". Instead, love those closest to you with openness and vulnerability. Familial love like this might just be the closest one can get to Heaven on earth.
Pursuing a Lasting Love
Today, St Valentine's name evokes thoughts of flowers and romantic dinners. Yet St Valentine’s true legacy speaks to something far more profound: the sacrificial nature of authentic love.
