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6 Hormones That Improve Your Marriage

How to improve your marriage or romantic relationships? Good question. It can be a challenge. After all, humans are wired to seek out partners who will help us reproduce, which can pose a problem when our significant others don’t necessarily share the same values or desire to have children. In this blog and in my …

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Stop Defensiveness in Marriage… Here’s How.

If you could dramatically reduce defensiveness in marriage in 2 days, would you? Defensiveness in marriage is a key cause of struggle between partners, so that may sound like a silly question, but the answer for most people is, “No”. I know that because if the answer was “Yes”, most people would get the relationship …

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How to Have More Peace of Mind in Marriage

We all want to have more peace of mind in marriage. How and what we think plays an incredibly important role in how we feel about our partners (and how they feel about us). We have to watch our thoughts like a hawk. In my work with couples, I often warn them to be conscious of …

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Avoid Criticism in Marriage with These 3 Tips

This post will help you avoid criticism in marriage. Have a read, and leave a comment below with your experience and thoughts. It’s all too common in relationship for one partner to make the other partner wrong, or to feel that the other partner is making you wrong. How this shows up in relationship is …

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5 Tips to Reduce Stress in Marriage in Difficult Times

To reduce stress in marriage is critical. With Covid-19 creating a lot of uncertainty for people, there are at least two paths many couples are heading down. One path could be that they are closer and more connected than ever. The other path is that they are being pulled apart. Regardless which path you feel …

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Alberta Couples Retreat: Who is this for?

In this article, I’m going to be giving you information about the popular Alberta couples retreat called the “Between Men And Women” Couples Communication Retreat. In particular, I’ll be telling you who this retreat is for, along with who this retreat is not for. This article is one of a complete series where I sum …

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Stronger Marriage: 5 Myths Stopping You From Fixing A Troubled Relationship

Stronger Marriage: 5 myths that stop you from fixing a troubled relationship is designed to show you what stops a couple from getting started to get the help they may need.  Why should you care about these 5 myths? These myths matter because if you hold one or more of them to be true, not …

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Why fix a marriage and is it even worth it? 3 good reasons

Fix a marriage? Why, when it seems you’ve had nothing but struggle and disappointment? Since the 80’s, there have been plenty of studies that have given evidence for “why”, along with proven success paths for “how” to fix a marriage. The research here is still going strong and can be helpful for those days when …

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Why Your Partner Tends To Have Negative Thoughts About You

If you attended our “Between Men And Women” Couple’s Communication Retreat  within the last year, you would have heard me caution you about some of the common psychological cognitive biases that affect all of us human beings, whether we realize it or not. Today I want to share yet another important cognitive bias with you that …

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5 Relationship Resolutions To Drastically Improve Your Relationship or Marriage

  It just so happens to be the beginning of the New Year so today I’m inspired to share five relationship resolutions with you. Of course, you can use these five resolutions any time of the year. If you were to do a search on the internet right now looking for “how to improve my …

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