During all the different seasons of marriage, it can be a challenge to keep romance alive. Here are some ideas!
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Is your marriage struggling around trauma, grief, PTSD, depression, betrayal, or other serious challenge? For those of you staying together through it, here are some tips for working on marriage with difficulties such as these in the picture.
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What did you think the empty nest or retirement would be like? Was it what you expected? For many of us, it wasn't! What about navigating marriage during these seasons?
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Sharing beliefs is communication at its deepest. To get here, we're likely already doing well talking about almost everything else and feeling a good bit of trust to share.
Can you unite on needs and goals? These are deeper topics of communication. Sharing on this level deepens intimacy.
Can you share your feelings without a verbal and emotional explosion? This is a deeper level of communication. To get here, we first want to get better at more surface levels of small talk, facts, and opinions.
Sharing opinions goes deeper than our usual surface level of communication. Here, we can learn to respect each other's differences, which sets us up to go deeper.
A lot of us easily communicate on the surface. It's in this zone we can work through going deeper.
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Do you long to talk on a deeper level? Here's a good starting point. _______
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While some of us excitedly plan for the holidays, others are dreading it. As a couple, what can we do to improve the holiday scene and make precious memories for our family?
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Communication happens on different levels. In marriage, the hope is that we will learn to share our deepest self to each other, and that we would receive such communication with gentle interest and curiosity with a goal to know and be known.
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We're always investing via our time, energy, and focus. We receive a harvest from the direction of our investment. The question is, what are we investing in? If it isn't our marriage, we shouldn't be surprised if it is no longer fulfilling. To enjoy what God intended, we should invest as God intended.
How do you maintain a healthy marriage while parenting? Here are some ideas.
Parenting together well requires husband and wife coming together, blending very different ideas about parenting. Here are some thoughts to get you started.
When we over-address, it can seem everything's wrong and push the spouse toward losing hope, but when we pretend nothing's wrong, we neglect cleaning out the relationship and allow walls to build.
When we over-address, it can seem everything's wrong and push the spouse toward losing hope, but when we pretend nothing's wrong, we neglect cleaning out the relationship and allow walls to build.
If we address issues too frequently, we create the feeling we are unhappy and dissatisfied, but if we address them infrequently, we come across as not caring. How can you land on somewhere in the middle?
Temper your sharing frequency toward your spouse's to avoid overwhelming an under-sharer and to meet the conversational needs of the over-sharer.
When we talk more easily, we can come across as aggressive, and when we don't talk as much, we can come across as withdrawing. This can send a message we didn't intend.
Tone of voice can twist a well-intentioned message. Anytime we express negative feelings via tone of voice, it's likely to return a negative response.
Let's talk about Proverbs 16:24 and what it means for our words to be sweet for another person to receive them.
Let's look at Proverbs 22:17-18 to understand how to listen to someone we want to blend with.
Male and female read and interpret non-verbal cues differently, but how does this affect relationship? Let's talk about some info from Dr. Carolyn Leaf's book, Who Switched Off My Brain?
What's different about his and her communication? Lots! Join us as we talk about those differences and their impact on relationships. Some of this info came from Dr. Carolyn Leaf's book, Who Switched Off My Brain?
Male and female are different in the way our brains are wired. Let's look at what's different in the way we perceive, with info discussed from Dr. Carolyn Leaf's book, Who Switched Off My Brain.
If we're not careful, we can get in our own way when it comes to catching our spouse's heart message.
As a couple, we've developed a history together. Now, our spouse expects conversation to go a certain way based on our responses. We need to create new expectations.
Our brains are wired differently, and it affects the way we communicate. Let's look at how men and women are different and how knowing this can improve communication in marriage.
Did you know the way you start communication can determine how it goes?
If you're struggling with getting your spouse to hear you when you present a problem to resolve, maybe you could improve your set up.
Prevent your presentation from blocking your heart message by being aware of how you may be coming across.
What can you do to improve the chance your spouse may really listen when you share?
If you’re the listener, you’d want to be listening…. If you’re the speaker, you’d want to share your message in a way the listener can hear.
We both have something to say, but we can only work through one topic at a time and must wait until it's our turn to share.
How do we make decisions together when we have such different perspectives? We're supposed to have different perspectives! Let's look at how to blend.
We expect so much in marriage! Regardless of what we think our spouse SHOULD do, we need to be Ok with what our spouse CHOOSES to do. (We're not talking about destructive choices here)
Maintaining connectivity while your spouse is sharing is doing your part as listener.
When our spouse shares a problem, we need to be willing to adjust. How might we do that well?
How might you help your spouse become aware of your challenging preferences or triggers?
Keeping our cool while sharing a challenging thought can be difficult, but it's the only way to talk things through.
How do you let your spouse know what you need in the marriage? Couples need to be aware of the different needs of the husband and wife in the deepest of relationships to facilitate marital growth. Let's talk about his and her core needs and a good way to make those needs known.
