Marriage is about big things: The rest of your life, your single-biggest responsibility, the children you bring into the world, the largest cause of stress, grief or joy!

All big things, and sometimes overwhelming, especially if things aren't going well. Yet the quality of marriage boils down to...

We often underestimate the power of our words in our marriages.

The other person is always around and so it's easy to speak to them as familiar, just there, or perhaps slightly annoying. Herein is opportunity for some fine-tuning. An opportunity to tweak something that can reap huge...

Like our view of the world when wearing a wrong set of glasses, sometimes we see each other through unhelpful or imperfect understandings:

"He just wants to be mean to me, that's why he's grumpy." When in reality he's overwhelmed at work and he frees up mental space by reducing connection to...

There are three questions to know the answer to in marriage betterment. Not only to know the answers for a season, but also continually discover and update those answers. To do this over time sets you up for increased marriage bliss and a sense of purpose And besides, they're really great...

"I just can't stand it when he/she does..."

"I love my spouse, but when he/she..."

"Everything goes good until he/she..."

"I just really wish he/she would change the way..."

These are the refrains of marriage partners caught in a trap - the trap of trying, or wanting, to change their spouse in...

In a moment of impasse in a relationship, like in an argument that threatens to ruin an evening, it's easy to be inflamed with what you want, and to feel totally justified in it.

Been there?!

Maybe it's respect, or for your partner to see things your way, or for you to be seen as right, or for...

Ever been faced with a behavior, character issue, or problem in your spouse that bugs you? We're probably all too familiar with the dynamic. You maybe hide your distaste and kinda inwardly stew about it, or you subtly nag, or you outright criticize.

What if, however, there's a better way?...

When there's increased stress in one area of your spouse's life, it inevitably leaks into the others. Hence, here you are living your life, and suddenly (or so it appears) there's stress on your relationship.

Things are on edge. You may feel like you're tiptoeing around, or maybe trying in...

Think of it: Emotion drew you from single to dating and from dating to married, right? It wasn't intellect alone. And it's emotion that keeps you thru the rough times too. Emotion gives you empathy for each other and it bridges the gap between mental assent and connection of hearts.

Emotion...