There are all sorts of things that can give you fleeting happiness—a chocolate cake, a good golf game, a walk…
“True happiness comes from having a sense of inner peace and contentment, which in turn must be achieved by cultivating altruism, love…
You’ve learned that gratitude is a good thing. You make an attempt to find the positives in everyday life. You…
A major key to loving someone else well is loving yourself first. When you love yourself enough to be confident…
What’s the most important thing in any relationship? Certainly trust ranks high. Try to imagine operating in a partnership devoid…
Let’s face it. If you’re in a relationship, you’re going to have fights or at least disagreements. That’s because no…
We’ve talked about killer behaviors when it comes to your marriage—criticism, contempt, and defensiveness. There’s one more that is a…
If your partner has admonished you for being defensive, you may have been so because you perceived you were being…
Last week we talked about how criticism can damage your marriage. But there’s something even worse than criticism. It’s contempt.…
If you want to have a miserable marriage and a probable divorce, be sure to communicate in destructive ways. There…