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Attitudes and Beliefs

10 Ways to Improve Your Marriage – Being Supportive

The second most common complaint we marriage counselors hear is that spouses don’t feel supported by the other. It’s possible that you might be one of those spouses. If you don’t feel supported, you may feel that you’re carrying an unfair share of the burden in the relationship. And if that’s the case, [...]

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10 Ways to Improve Your Marriage – Honoring Your Commitments

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What does commitment mean to you? Most people would say that it means being sexually faithful to your mate. Couples that are truly committed to each other usually make an agreement to having a sexually exclusive relationship. That commitment is extremely important because cheating, by either partner, breaks that commitment and has [...]

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Common Traits in Happy Couples

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Researchers for the British wedding-planning Web site confetti.co.uk have compiled a list the “vital ingredients” for lasting love. They surveyed 3,000 married people and discovered some common traits in happy couples:
These are the common traits for couples before marriage:

They met through friends
Married after three-and-a-half years of courtship
Married at age [...]

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Marriage Advice 2009: Forgiving Others

Have you been so deeply hurt by someone that you’ve found it difficult if not impossible to forgive them and move on? Maybe the person cheated on you, or a friend betrayed you, someone stabbed you in the back, or you were used by someone and thrown away like a piece of trash. And you may find yourself feeling a range of emotions–anger, sadness, depression, bitterness, hopelessness, and others. Maybe you might want to forgive the person but you’re not sure if you want to or even should. So, what do you do?

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Marriage and the Importance of an Attitude of Gratitude

During our lifetime, we’ve had the privilege of getting to know a number of people who’ve accumulated a significant amount of wealth. Almost without exception, the one thing all of them have had in common was their daily practice of expressing gratitude for what they possessed. This is far different from a great [...]

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