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Marriage Communication Secrets

100 Questions Before Marriage: Attitudes About Sex, Money, and Household Maintenance

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The following questions from our 100 Questions Before Marriage exercise addresses the greatest problem areas in marriage. They represent the topics that couples often fight about—sex, money, and conflicts over how their home is maintained and by whom.
By assessing, confronting, and working through possible conflicts now before the marriage, it is possible [...]

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100 Questions Before Marriage: What You Need to Know About Me

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We’re sometimes asked why we encourage couples to answer the 100 Questions Before Marriage exercise. From our experience as marriage counselors, we have found that when couples are dating, each person quite often tries to present their “best self” and either hide, or minimize their flaws. So, what partners are presenting [...]

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100 Questions Before Marriage: Your Purpose Your Past

We are offering this 100 Questions Before Marriage because in our work as marriage counselors we have found that far too many couples lack a lot of basic information about each other before they get married. For example, there is a TV commercial being aired right now where the new husband is singing about [...]

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Marriage Communication: She Yells, He Won’t Respond

Watch as Royal Oak, Michigan marriage counselors discuss the issues around when she yells and he won’t respond in marriage communication:

Enjoy!
Jesse and Melva Johnson
Royal Oak Michigan Marriage Counselors
Got a Burning Marriage Question? Ask!

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Being Ignored in Your Marriage and Relationships

The state of your marriage today represents an accumulation of your life together as a couple. When couples perceive that 50% or more of their experiences together have been fulfilling, mutually satisfying, happy, and rewarding, it results in a stronger bond and loving connection. When the level of satisfaction goes considerably below the 50% mark, the more dissatisfaction couples report about their relationships.

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How to Get Your Man to Open Up and Talk to You

If you want your man to open up and talk to you, then you must listen to what he has to say. And when I say listen, I mean to really listen to understand what he’s attempting to communicate. Listen carefully, sincerely, and completely to his thoughts and ideas— period! And after he has shared his ideas, validate them.

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When Communication Breaks Down Why Some Men Won’t Communicate

Often, women are shocked when they come to us for marriage-couple’s-or relationship counseling and their men open up, start talking freely, and begin sharing their very deep thoughts and concerns—things they have not communicated before. Women find it nearly impossible to believe.

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