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Confidence can impact your marital success
A growing body of evidence shows how devastating a lack of confidence can be. “Success, it turns out, correlates just as closely with confidence as it does with competence,” say Katty Kay and Claire...
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Great news about marriages: 80% are happy
What if I could snap my fingers and make 80 percent of marriages happy? And cut the divorce rate for first time marriages in half? Consider it done. What if everything you thought you knew about...
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Marriage . . . in retrospect
Thanks to Regi Campbell, author and married for 45 years, for the following guest post: I read where Ronald Wayne, one of the co-founders of Apple Computer, sold his 10% interest in the company for...
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Why Kindness Matters in Marriage
Spring is a time for commencement addresses, and I’ve seen a number of good ones recently. This youtube video of professor and NYT best-seller George Saunders’ address on kindness. Of all the lessons...
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Is your spouse different from the person you married?
You’ve seen it in the movies, and maybe even felt it in real life. “S/he is not the person I married,” which is supposed to excuse you from your wedding vows and cause you to go in search of some one...
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Top 15 Sources of Relationship Conflict
It helps to acknowledge a problem before we can begin to address it. And it helps to know where the potential pitfalls are if we hope not to end up in one. The following top 15 sources of conflict in a...
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Longest study of human development shows what men need to live happy lives
If you want to be happy for the rest of your life … Harvard has the answers, at least for men. Harvard University conducted the longest-running longitudinal study of human development, beginning in...
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5 Reasons to Affirm Your Spouse
A leadership blog by Michael Hyatt shared why speaking well of our spouses in public is key. He shared two personal examples of leaders he knew. One (a pastor) frequently made disparaging, although...
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Monthly Date Night May be Marriage-Saving
A new study indicates regular date nights can have a significant impact on making your marriage last. The time commitment isn’t terribly difficult to achieve; monthly dates lowered the odds of...
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Divorce Booms in January
The holidays can be a stressful time for marriages that are already having difficulties. In fact, January is the month when most divorces are filed. The following post has some interesting thoughts...
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