Often, when a couple has been in a committed relationship for awhile (even if they aren't married yet!) they can become complacent. You settle into a routine, things become "normal", and you stop feeling butterflies every time you see your significant other.

Whether you are planning for your wedding and the future of your relationship, planning for a potential health crisis, or planning to take over the care of an elderly parent you need to PLAN!

Sex is a key component of a healthy marriage! It is critical for a happy relationship to be both emotionally and physically intimate with each other.

Some of the best advice I ever heard for a relationship was to compliment your significant other during a fight. This has a two fold effect: first - you will stop saying angry things and fueling the fire of the fight, second - you will remember what you love about that person and begin to soften your heart to what is making you upset.

Unfortunately, dysfunctional relationship patterns are learned and passed from one generation to the next. And we will probably repeat them until we heal the underlying trauma and feel lovable and worthy of being treated with respect and kindness.

Although it seems simple, some of the best advice we have for couples is simply, “Be Nice to each other!”

It is one thing for people to have an opinion and to voice that opinion. Knowing where you stand on things is important, being willing to take in new information and change your opinion is just as important.

Porn and infidelity can destroy relationships. It takes an incredible amount of resiliency, trust, and hard work for a couple to overcome the betrayal that results from these actions. But it can be done.

The rules of golf and the rules of marriage have more in common than you might think!

In today’s culture, technology (and especially phones) are an ever present part of our lives. While this has made our lives easier in many ways, it has also started to create some notable rifts in our relationships.

If you wanted your marriage to be average, you probably wouldn’t have gotten married. Are we right? Whether you got married 2 years, 10 years, or 50 years ago you probably had a picture of an idyllic partnership in your mind.

It’s probably common sense to say that children are watching what their parents do, and whatever behaviors their parents have are what will be “normal” to them. But have we really thought about what our relationships, romantic and otherwise, are demonstrating to our children?

In case no one ever told you, some days marriage is just going to be hard. You are going to be scared it won’t work, or that you chose the wrong person, or that it won’t get better.