<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Marriage Blog</title><link>http://marriage.families.com/blog/</link><description>Read tips on how to keep your love alive and healthy while living in the real world.</description><language>en-us</language><pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:31:27 +0000</pubDate><lastBuildDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:31:27 +0000</lastBuildDate><ttl>60</ttl><item><title>Tips for Married Life After Baby</title><link>http://marriage.families.com/blog/tips-for-married-life-after-baby</link><pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:13:37 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://marriage.families.com/blog/tips-for-married-life-after-baby</guid><description><![CDATA[Yesterday we looked at how some new Moms abdicate from normal life when baby arrives. Here are helpful tips and ways we went about preventing this.

From the time my children were born, I got them used to noise. The radio or music was always on.]]></description></item><item><title>A Baby Will Affect Your Marriage</title><link>http://marriage.families.com/blog/a-baby-will-affect-your-marriage</link><pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:25:53 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://marriage.families.com/blog/a-baby-will-affect-your-marriage</guid><description><![CDATA[A baby will affect your marriage. Married life changes after children arrive purely because of the amount of time a baby takes up and needs. However the new mother needs to be very careful at this time that her husband does not feel excluded and pushed to the periphery.]]></description></item><item><title>A Picture of a Marriage</title><link>http://marriage.families.com/blog/a-picture-of-a-marriage</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:40:00 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://marriage.families.com/blog/a-picture-of-a-marriage</guid><description><![CDATA[52 years married and still in love with his wife, that was the picture actor Alan Alda presented in a recent interview with Andrew Denton.

These are some of the things that impressed me in that interview with the 73 year old actor. Firstly, that he and his wife Arlene have been married 52 years.]]></description></item><item><title>Why You Need to Build a Hedge Around Your Marriage</title><link>http://marriage.families.com/blog/why-you-need-to-build-a-hedge-around-your-marriage</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:36:52 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://marriage.families.com/blog/why-you-need-to-build-a-hedge-around-your-marriage</guid><description><![CDATA[If you have read my previous posts about building a hedge around your marriage, then forgive me. I think it is just such an important subject in this day and age that more needs to be said. Our marriages can be made vulnerable by outside influences.]]></description></item><item><title>Biblical and Practical Wisdom about Marriage</title><link>http://marriage.families.com/blog/biblical-and-practical-wisdom-about-marriage</link><pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:04:21 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://marriage.families.com/blog/biblical-and-practical-wisdom-about-marriage</guid><description><![CDATA[The bible has a lot of practical wisdom about marriage. I thought I'd share some of it with you.

'Through presumption comes nothing but strife, but with those who receive counsel is wisdom,' Proverbs 13:10

This certainly applies to both husbands and wives.]]></description></item><item><title>What is Your Marriage Worth?</title><link>http://marriage.families.com/blog/what-is-your-marriage-worth</link><pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 20:51:03 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://marriage.families.com/blog/what-is-your-marriage-worth</guid><description><![CDATA[Can you put a monetary value on happiness? Apparently you can, according to Professor Paul Frijters. The man, named best Australian Economist under 40 years of age, has attempted to put a monetary value on major events in people's lives.]]></description></item><item><title>When Not to Have an Argument</title><link>http://marriage.families.com/blog/when-not-to-have-an-argument</link><pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 21:43:05 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://marriage.families.com/blog/when-not-to-have-an-argument</guid><description><![CDATA[So you have a frustration in your marriage that needs to be aired. You need to sit down and talk to your spouse. But there are times when you should definitely NOT start a deep and meaningful discussion or an argument.]]></description></item><item><title>Frustration</title><link>http://marriage.families.com/blog/frustration1</link><pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 20:00:20 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://marriage.families.com/blog/frustration1</guid><description><![CDATA[Frustration is one of those kinds of things that build up and up. The more you try and keep it inside and press it down, the more it tends to want to spill out. The results are that it starts to affect all your thoughts, reactions and actions.]]></description></item><item><title>Living with In-Laws?</title><link>http://marriage.families.com/blog/living-with-in-laws1</link><pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 22:56:37 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://marriage.families.com/blog/living-with-in-laws1</guid><description><![CDATA[Living with in-laws is a situation some married couples face. Sometimes it is early in the marriage until a couple gets on their feet financially. Other times it occurs when parents get older and need care.]]></description></item><item><title>How Do You Love?</title><link>http://marriage.families.com/blog/how-do-you-love</link><pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 23:16:44 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://marriage.families.com/blog/how-do-you-love</guid><description><![CDATA[Yesterday I gave my husband a quiz. Being the sweetie he is, he filled it out and then I gave him the results of mine. It was a test based on the Five Love Languages. 

It is an interesting exercise to see what is most important to you in the way of expressing and receiving love.]]></description></item><item><title>A Work in Progress</title><link>http://marriage.families.com/blog/a-work-in-progress1</link><pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 02:14:52 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://marriage.families.com/blog/a-work-in-progress1</guid><description><![CDATA[Yesterday I was talking with a young woman who describes herself as someone who only has 'got her L plates in marriage.]]></description></item><item><title>Practice Random Acts of Kindness with Your Spouse</title><link>http://marriage.families.com/blog/practice-random-acts-of-kindness-with-your-spouse</link><pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:44:45 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://marriage.families.com/blog/practice-random-acts-of-kindness-with-your-spouse</guid><description><![CDATA[One of the fun things about marriage is that you have another person, a partner, the love or your life, for whom you can lavish attention. Here is a ready made opportunity in the form of the most important person in the world, and opportunity to give of yourself.]]></description></item><item><title>A Day in the Sun</title><link>http://marriage.families.com/blog/a-day-in-the-sun</link><pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 20:10:25 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://marriage.families.com/blog/a-day-in-the-sun</guid><description><![CDATA[It's the little things that make memories. It's the little things that build relationships and maintain them. It doesn't have to be anything world shattering. It could be something as simple as a day together.

On Saturday we had an early start to the day and drove up to Sydney.]]></description></item><item><title>Shopping with Your Spouse</title><link>http://marriage.families.com/blog/shopping-with-your-spouse</link><pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:09:24 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://marriage.families.com/blog/shopping-with-your-spouse</guid><description><![CDATA[Do you and your spouse shop together for clothes? Or do you simply go and buy your spouse's clothes? Or do they go on their own and buy clothes?

I've heard of women who want to buy all the clothes for their man without any input from him.]]></description></item><item><title>What's Most Important?</title><link>http://marriage.families.com/blog/whats-most-important1</link><pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 18:24:20 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://marriage.families.com/blog/whats-most-important1</guid><description><![CDATA[We determine how important things and people are in our life by the amount of time and effort we devote to them.  Take time to list now those things/ relationships important to you as they come to mind. Maybe even the order in which they come to mind might tell you something.]]></description></item><item><title>How to Make Your Marriage the Exception to the Rule</title><link>http://marriage.families.com/blog/how-to-make-your-marriage-the-exception-to-the-rule</link><pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 20:11:55 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://marriage.families.com/blog/how-to-make-your-marriage-the-exception-to-the-rule</guid><description><![CDATA[Michele commented yesterday that it's a shame lasting love these days is seen as the exception rather than the rule. I agree. But when it does exist, other people notice.]]></description></item><item><title>Love That Lasts</title><link>http://marriage.families.com/blog/love-that-lasts</link><pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:46:34 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://marriage.families.com/blog/love-that-lasts</guid><description><![CDATA[Sometimes you just see love in the faces and actions of other married couples. Yesterday was such a day for me.

Our choir went to sing for the elderly residents in a local nursing home.  I looked out a saw one couple.]]></description></item><item><title>Is Your Marriage a Balloon?</title><link>http://marriage.families.com/blog/is-your-marriage-a-balloon</link><pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:42:56 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://marriage.families.com/blog/is-your-marriage-a-balloon</guid><description><![CDATA[Do you view your marriage as a balloon, taking you to new heights? Or do you view it as a ball and chain, dragging you down?

Yesterday while talking to my daughter she expressed her reaction to the negativity projected by many about marriage.]]></description></item><item><title>Avoiding Stress During the Holidays: Relatives</title><link>http://marriage.families.com/blog/avoiding-stress-during-the-holidays-relatives</link><pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:02:45 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://marriage.families.com/blog/avoiding-stress-during-the-holidays-relatives</guid><description><![CDATA[The holidays can be very stressful on a marriage. While the television specials and the Hallmark cards often paint a picture of romantic bliss, the reality is that there are several things going on that can actually work on keeping you apart, or at least annoyed with each other.]]></description></item><item><title>Marriage Means Adjustments</title><link>http://marriage.families.com/blog/marriage-means-adjustments</link><pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:18:17 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://marriage.families.com/blog/marriage-means-adjustments</guid><description><![CDATA[Being married means making adjustments. It means adapting to living with another person and considering, and where possible accommodating their interests, likes and dislikes as well as your own. This is important in bed as well as in other places.]]></description></item></channel></rss>