Over the past several years, I’ve written several articles about how to improve your marriage and prevent divorce. However, it struck me recently that all of these articles were missing an essential element of a lasting marriage — the ability
10 ways to recharge your marriage daily
One of the most frustrating things on earth is when you reach into your pocket to pull out your smart phone and realize it’s completely out of power. You remember that you didn’t charge it up, and now, it’s dead.
5 Ways Faith Contributes to Strong Marriages
“Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. Love does not insist on its own way… Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never
7 Intimacy Killers in a Marriage
As I’ve interacted with couples from all over the world, I’ve found that many of the issues that ultimately lead to infidelity and divorce creep in unintentionally. People don’t usually set out to sabotage their marriage and wind up in
Build Love Maps
You know that moment at a wedding when the DJ invites all the married people onto the dance floor for a slow dance. Then he say something like, “If you’ve been married less than 1 year, please leave the floor.”
Empathy in Marriage: How to Connect Emotionally with Your Spouse
We are all aware that the marital relationship is regarded as extremely important in Islam. In addition to fulfilling half our deen, marriage is a safeguard, a place to find peace, and also a strongly recommended sunnah. Our Prophet Muhammad said:
Secrets to Surviving your First Year of Marriage
So, you’ve survived the wedding planning process, made it through the big day, dodged every curve ball life has thrown at you and now you can finally relax and enjoy the married life, right? Well, according to a variety of
Stonewalling in Couples: When You or Your Partner Shuts Down
Relationship researcher John Gottman, Ph.D, was the first to apply the term “stonewalling” to couples, said Kathy Nickerson, Ph.D, a clinical psychologist who specializes in relationships in Orange County, Calif. Gottman defines stonewalling as “when a listener withdraws from an
The 3 Phases of Love
What do you do if you love your partner, but you are no longer in love with your partner? Does the feeling of love transform or change over time? In his new book Principa Amoris: The New Science of Love,
The 9 Most Overlooked Threats to a Marriage
I feel bad for marital communication, because it gets blamed for everything. For generations, in survey after survey, couples have rated marital communication as the number one problem in marriage. It’s not. Marital communication is getting a bad rap. It’s