Falling in or out of love doesn’t “just happen.”
Although either can happen unintentionally, they are both a process and don’t happen overnight, regardless if we believe we just fell head over heels in love with someone.
There are four main steps to falling in love, which tend to happen in a particular order and follow a process.… Read More
It’s not exactly a common conversation topic, even among the best of friends.… Read More
Sometimes people behave the way they do because of past experiences and even because of trauma.
Someone who is willing to destroy relationships by getting involved in one affair after another, may have had something happen in their past that now influences their present actions.… Read More
Good marriage counselors are worth their weight in gold.
There are thousands of well-trained individuals out there who work for the couple and not for one individual and who work with ethics in mind—these counselors help both parties with their individual and combined goals in order to help the couple move forward — whatever that may look like.… Read More
Not every relationship or marriage has a major meltdown.
But when it happens, how do you put things back together?
How do you get past the hurt? The broken trust? The fear that something else is coming – especially when one partner developed a deep emotional relationship with someone else, but has decided to try to make your relationship work again.… Read More
Have you ever prayed about love? Perhaps something that you wanted to happen.… Read More
If you or your spouse believe that you are madly in love with someone else, be sure to watch the video above on “limerence,” all the way through.… Read More
Whether it’s done by your best friend, your child, or your spouse, it hurts when we discover that we’ve been lied to, doesn’t it?
No one that I know of likes being deceived. Even in affairs, I often hear the spouse who was cheated on say something such as, “As much as the affair hurt, it hurt me even more that s/he lied to me!”… Read More
It may be guilt you feel. It may be felt by someone you love.
Either way, it affects everyone. The person who feels guilt has little to no peace.
The ones who love the guilt-ridden are often pushed away…or feel helpless to help.… Read More
Watch the important video above about “limerence,” all the way through before reading the rest of this article.… Read More
Pornography can not only be an addiction, but it can ruin relationships, marriages, and lives.
Pornography addiction is a real issue—not something created by the media and should be treated as any other addiction would be.
Any person of any age can get lured into the act of watching porn on TV or online, and once they go down that rabbit hole, it is difficult to come out of, especially in people of certain dispositions, life circumstances, and/or addictive personalities. … Read More
When a child learns that his or her parents are getting a divorce, it can be alarming, frustrating, confusing, and quite upsetting.
These emotions are normal and are not solely reserved for children and adolescents; adults can experience a spectrum of emotions as well when realizing that their parents, after all of the years, are getting a divorce.… Read More
Ever wish you could really understand what your spouse is saying?
You hear the words, you respond, and s/he reacts in a completely different way than you expected.
You know you aren’t communicating clearly with each other but it doesn’t make sense to you why you aren’t.… Read More
What do you do when you’ve had major problems in your marriage and now want to try to reconcile?
It’s tougher to accomplish than most people think.
It’s great when a couple decides to put a marriage back together.
However, without a valid understanding of what caused the trouble (and that usually means MUCH more than the final issue that became the focus of the marriage problems), many couples who try to reconcile run headlong into a wall of pain and frustration.… Read More
