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Marriage Rating Scale – How Do You Score?

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I had to laugh, I was reading an article where psychologists were discussing a test used back in 1939 that assessed the ‘performance’ of a wife. Depending on the answers, she was awarded points or lost points. Reading the ‘wife’s chart’ is pretty entertaining from the modern perspective, because I don’t think we’ve changed as much as a lot of people would like to think we’ve changed. Demerits On the demerits list, give yourself a point for each of these that is true unless otherwise noted. Slow in coming to bed — delays until husband is almost asleep Doesn’t like … Continue reading →

Do You Have Fun with Your Spouse?

Most adolescents and young adults have no idea the luxury that they have from living at home. As I, they cannot wait to marry the love of their life and move out into their own home. As we all know now, with marriage comes responsibility. There are chores to be completed and bills to be paid. Most couples must work and eventually more responsibility will enter the picture with children. With all of this work, chores, and children, some couples can lose that childish adolescence that they had when they first got married. While it is good to grow up … Continue reading →

Forgive and Let it Go

Forgive and forget is a tough concept to master for most people. While many people can forgive fewer people are as easy to forget. Many people hold incidents in their minds and bring them up into conversation years after they occur. While forgetting is not necessary in a relationship, being able to let things go is important for couples. There is no doubt that sometime in your relationship your spouse will do something that makes you angry, upset, or annoyed. Even the best and closest of couple have arguments. It is all part of human nature. How the couple handles … Continue reading →

Four Tips for a Healthy Marriage

How healthy is your marriage? Despite challenges, which we all face, do you feel overall, your relationship is strong? If so, the following tips may seem elementary, although we can all use reminders from time to time. Teamwork When facing problems or challenges, it is a good idea to come up with solutions together. Even if you are the more “take charge” person in the relationship, your spouse needs to be involved in the decision making. On the other hand, it is as important for a spouse that tends to defer to the other person, to take a more active … Continue reading →

Celebrity Inspirations – Maintaining a Healthy Marriage

We’re always reading about the latest celebrity split and marveling that some of those relationships last even five minutes in the glaring stage lights of celebrity and paparazzi. So it should come to no surprise that some celebrities take very special steps to preserve their marriages and to keep their relationships steady and strong. Making headlines recently in this very area is Patrick Dempsey. You may remember him from the movie Mobsters with Christian Slater or know him from the part that has launched him to super stardom as Dr. McDreamy on the very popular Grey’s Anatomy. The actor regularly … Continue reading →

Ten Tips to Building a Strong, Smart Marriage

Everything in life is based on perception. Our perceptions of the world around us suggest how we handle everything from our interpersonal relationships to how much faith we put into our fellow man. Positive experiences breed positive viewpoints, so forth and so on. So here are ten tips to help you make better choices and decisions about your marriage and how you let perception affect you. Our interpersonal differences and disagreements are not the problem; how we cope with them determines whether our not we will be successful in our marriage Our marriages are more important than we may initially … Continue reading →