Surprise Your Spouse with This ONE Trick – Connection Point For Your Marriage When I tell people to do breakfast in bed for their spouse, they’re like, “But I hate breakfast in bed.” I don’t want to get up at 5:30 in the morning. And I’m always sitting back, and I’m […]
What SUCCESSFUL Couples Do (&You Don’t) Successful couples plan ahead. They have a routine. They’re not caught off guard by, “Oh my gosh, it’s been four months and we’ve barely seen each other.” If we don’t count you watching me brush my teeth and me watching you take your makeup off […]
Regretting Your SUMMER Already?! Do This Now Instead We are two-thirds of the summer in. So there’s a third left. And my question for you is: what of the things that you and your spouse decided that you wanted to make happen this summer—what of them are yet to be done? […]
Resentment in Marriage – Can We Fix It? Resentment—it’s a thing, even in marriage. Can you fix it? Can you get rid of it? That’s the million-dollar question. And my answer is, absolutely. You need three things, though. You’ve got to figure out what it is that you’re resentful about. Specifically, […]
YOUR Rate of Showing-Upness in Your Marriage What if your rate in your marriage— If your rate of showing-upness, regardless of what your spouse does or doesn’t do— What if your rate of showing-upness was non-negotiable? Like, non-question. What would be happening then? Don’t Do the 100!!!! When married couples […]
When Your Spouse Messes Up – Half the Battle is WON with This One of the powerful things that you can do when your spouse has just messed something up—right, they’re like, screwed up in some way—is to take a moment. The moment that you can look at that and remind […]
The Powerhouse Kind of Dates for Your Marriage If you and your spouse are sitting there saying, “We have no time, we don’t have the money, we don’t have family in town, we don’t have babysitters, or the ones that we do know we don’t trust, we don’t know where we […]
Listening Well in Your Marriage We are taught how to speak up. To a degree, I would argue. I don’t think we do it justice – BUT – at least it’s within our awareness. How to present, how to talk, how to share our opinions – with our spouse or otherwise. What […]
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 […]
