You Only Need ONE Thing You don’t need a hundred different things to start. To start making your marriage better—that is, your marriage—your spouse doesn’t require that. You only need one. Go out there. Find one thing that you appreciate about your spouse. Find one thing that you love about your husband […]
The Most Underrated Skill in Marriage You not telling your spouse how something landed with you isn’t helping anybody. You keeping the feedback to yourself, as if it were some kind of national secret, isn’t doing either one of you any good. When she knows that the backrub got all of […]
Riddle me this: If you were having dinner with the CEO of your company… Your all-time favorite teacher who is now retired and wanted to meet up… Oprah or Mother Teresa… (assuming you respect and esteem them highly) Or your favorite celebrity, someone you LOVE and ADORE and would go to the ends […]
Your Money Conversations, Failed (No More) The fact that you don’t nail it at your first try is normal. Most people don’t. Most couples have to go about it a couple different times to get the conversation, let’s just say, about money (since that’s what we will be talking about during the month […]
The one exception, as it relates to money spent in your marriage where you BOTH don’t need to be aligned – Where you don’t have to consult your spouse on money, and your spouse doesn’t have to consult you – It’s when it happens within the confines of FUN MONEY. Sounds fun, right? […]
Let me start with this: True Story I’m sitting in a quiet room at the Millcroft Inn, a peaceful little place hidden back among the pine trees about an hour out of Toronto. It’s just past noon, late July, and I’m listening to the desperate sounds of a life-or death struggle going on […]
If you ARE celebrating today – Happy Valentine’s Day! Here’s what NEVER gets old. It’s NOT True This Valentine’s Day As I went to get snacks for the office, middle of the afternoon, seeing an elderly gentleman, checking out in front of me, with a beautiful card and a yellow potted […]
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The number of times that people tell me – or I overhear them telling someone else without them realizing – that they don’t have the money to invest in their marriage – Too many. I stopped counting. If you are sitting there, thinking to yourself – yeah – but it’s true — Here’s […]
What I realized when our daughter asked me one simple question: “Why are you cleaning SO MUCH??” So she asked me this question as I am frantically trying to clean the bathroom, the hardwood floors, and carpeted areas of the home, all prior to some family coming over. People that have never seen our […]
