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Got Different Parenting styles? Here’s How to Be on The Same Page for Parenting
Disagreements in parenting is a common problem which parents face all over the world. If you and your spouse have different parenting styles then parenting your kids can easily become a battlefield. For the sake of your relationship with your spouse, successful upbringing of your kids and your relationship with your kids both the parents must be on the same page for parenting. Before we discuss how to be on the same page for parenting let’s look into a few aspects of your parenting differences with your spouse. Things To Remember You might be annoyed with your husband or wife over parenting differences but you must remember a few things.…
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4 Simple Steps To Let Go of Past Hurts in Your Marriage Effectively
In an intimate relationship like marriage, the chances of hurting each other are high. Since there are a lot of emotions, feelings, and expectations involved, you are very much vulnerable to get hurt. When you are hurt by your spouse, ideally, you should talk about the issue and get over it with mutual understanding and forgiveness. In reality, there are occasions when you don’t feel like forgiving or forgetting fully, despite communicating your grievances and getting an apology. Apparently, everything seems OK but deep down in your heart, you keep the grudge. Intentionally and unintentionally you keep on feeding that grudge and gradually it grows. Every time you have an…
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Forgiveness in Marriage: 5 Steps to Apologize Effectively in Your Marriage
Ruth Graham Bell has very rightly said, “A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers”. Both the husband and the wife need to forgive or to be forgiven at some point in their relationship. In order to be forgiven by your spouse, you need to apologize effectively in your marriage. An effective apology not only clears the bad feelings it also strengthens the relationship. Do Not Try To Compensate For Your Mistake before Apologizing At times couples make the mistake of not verbally asking for an apology. They try to compensate for their mistake by other things like giving gifts or try to make their spouse happy through…
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So you want your husband to help you with household chores and he seems to be least bothered by the idea that he should be helping you around the house. At times the amount of work you need to put in to maintain the house is immense, boring and thankless. You may have excelled at everything and nobody notices but the day something is slightly not up to the mark and bam everybody is concerned. Your husband’s helping hand in such situations give you a sense of togetherness as a couple and a breath of fresh air from spinning your wheels again and again. As a woman, I know that…
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Forgiveness in Marriage: 3 Simple & Effective Steps To Forgive Your Husband
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