Marriage Advice
Jane James
Latest Articles
Are You Getting Your Fair Share?
While marriage isn't as cold-blooded as most business relationships, it is largely about exchange, and enhancing the survival of one another. If you are having trouble with fair exchange in your marriage, there are things you can do to fix the situation.
The Magical Ingredient to Good Communication
The secret to good communication in a marriage involves more than just speaking one's own mind, and listening. If you find yourself arguing with your spouse, perhaps you're missing an essential ingredient to good communication.
Some Things Are Better Left Unsaid... Aren't They?
Marriage between best friends requires honesty, and only an honest relationship will survive the trials of life.
With the holidays on the way, relationships that are strained can come unglued with the stress and pace. Why not make a pre-emptive strike against the madness of the holidays? Map out your strategy and watch it become a restful, relaxed, wonderful time of year.
The View from Across the Table
One of the exquisite pleasures in any relationship, and especially a marital relationship is to unplug everything else...job, kids, etc., and take the unhurried time to simply gaze at the other person across a restaurant table.
All of us need to declare a marital holiday now and then, and the more we do it the better!
The "I Still Do" conference is a great way to revitalize your marriage and ample evidence that marriage is a long way from extinction.
Some of us are better at making decisions than others. Making decisions in our marriages calls for cooperation and mutual concern. And it presents a great opportunity to reconnect with our spouse.
What do you do when one of you likes to take their time to carefully consider what they want to say, while the other is comfortable just blurting out spontaneous feelings? How do you find a pace that works for you both? Try the "15 Second Rule"
There's no reason to be bored in your marriage. There is enough depth and complexity in that person you married to keep you interested for a life time...if you just pay attention.