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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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How to Prioritize Your Marriage After Having Kids
Early on in your marriage especially when there are no kids in the picture your marriage is pretty much the center of your attention. Later on, when kids come into the picture parenting becomes the number one priority for the couple and both the husband and the wife tend to take their marriage for granted and let it go into the background. But the thing is having a healthy married life is essential not only for the relationship of the couple but also for their roles as parents. It is research proven that the secret to a healthy and happy life lies in your healthy and strong love relationships. In…
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Handling a Lying Husband: What to Do When Your Husband Lies To You
Ideally, a love relationship like marriage should be crystal clear without an iota of secrets and lies. But at times both the spouses tell lies or keep secrets from one another. These secrets and lies become a poison for the trust in marriage. Today I am sharing my views on what to do when your husband lies to you. When you come to know for the first time that your husband has lied to you it is nothing less than a shock. You feel betrayed and your trust in your husband is very much dented. I would like to add that I am talking about less serious lies here. If…
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How to Get Your Husband to Listen to you Attentively
Being a woman I know that talking is important to women. Besides other things a woman uses talking to de-stress herself, find solutions to problems and build relationships. But talking without an attentive listener is pretty much useless. That’s why listening is a very important part of talking. For a woman, when it comes to relationships like marriage, talking becomes a very important mode to connect emotionally with her husband. Men, on the other hand, are wired totally differently to women and they underestimate the importance of listening to their wives. As a result, there is resentment and a lack of feeling of fulfillment in the hearts and minds of…
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How to Get Your Husband to Help with Household Chores
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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What to do When You Feel Ignored Because Your Husband is Addicted to His Phone
So your husband is addicted to his phone and this behavior of his is making you feel ignored as it is sucking up the quality time in your marriage? You want to have his attention and spend some one to one time with him but he is never fully free from social media and the virtual world on his phone. You are not alone, I have personally heard this complaint from dozens of women. How to Respond to Your Husband’s Phone Addiction A few steps can not only let you help your husband in limiting the use of his phone but also give you quality time as a couple. Let’s…
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3 Steps to Restore Emotional Connection in Marriage After Having Children
What is the foundation of a happy and healthy marriage? Love? Money? Understanding? Gratitude? Well, all these things are important but one thing which is more basic and essential than all these things is the emotional connection. If you feel emotionally connected to your spouse the feelings of gratitude, love and compassion will automatically flow from your heart. When there are only two people in a relationship it’s easy to keep the emotional connection in marriage, strong and deep. Once your children come into your life they go to the number one place in terms of attention, appreciation, and love. It is very natural to adore your children but in…
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Forgiveness in Marriage: 3 Simple & Effective Steps To Forgive Your Husband
So your husband has said something or done something and you feel seriously offended. But your husband is acting normal as if nothing has happened. Can you relate to that? Most probably you can and so can I. Have you ever wondered why this happens? It’s because men and women are different by default. Naturally, something very important for a woman might be totally unimportant for a man. Women are very intuitive and their ability to feel something is very much powerful as compared to men. So when things happen, in an intimate relationship like marriage, a husband and wife might perceive something totally different. As a result, there are…
