Category Archives: To Say

40 Loving Texts to Send Right Now To Make Your Spouse’s Day

Loving texts to send your partner. Click through to read thinking about you texts, sappy texts, apology texts and humorous texts.

Sample loving texts to make your spouse smile, including thinking of you texts, sappy texts, intimate texts, apology texts and humorous texts. I’ve been trying to text something nice to my husband everyday this month since that is our love experiment of the month. And I gotta say . . . . its getting hard to come up with original material! This has nothing to do with my husband’s boundless awesomeness and everything to do with my lame, directionless texting. So, just some advice before we dig into sample texts, I would say if you want to give your relationship… Read More

Marriage Hack: Mastering Gottman’s Magic Ratio

Marriage Expert John Gottman is able to predict divorce with 95% accuracy with his magic ratio of 5:1 positive to negative interactions. Click through to learn how to cultivate more positive interactions.

Marriage Expert John Gottman is able to predict divorce with 95% accuracy with his magic ratio of 5:1 positive to negative interactions. Sounds like we should learn how to cultivate more positive interactions. Our theme for the month is marriage hacks- helpful tips and tools for your marriage. Recent posts: Marriage Hack: Put Yourself Through Therapy Marriage Hack: Write a Marriage Manifesto Marriage Hack: Fill Yourself Up With Love This hack comes from John Gottman, king of marriage research. Astonishingly and against all odds in social science, Gottman is able to predict divorce with 95% accuracy. That does not happen in… Read More

The Power of Giving Up Having Things My Way

Do you want to be right or do you want to be married? I learn that lesson the hard way frequently because I tend to always think my way is the best. But really love is the best way. Click through to read why.

Do you want to be married or do you want to be right? In this post I go through some situations were I wanted to be right and my marriage reaped the consequences. The theme for the month of September will be all about my personal marriage wins. Each month I send my email subscribers a “win” I’ve had for the month, so the posts this month are taken directly from those emails I’ve sent out. My email list is where I get pretty personal, so if you want in on this (and duh, you definitely want in on this), just sign up right at… Read More

The Weekly Marriage Check In: A Happier Marriage Week by Week

Want a happier, healthier relationship? Give yourselves a weekly check up! Start with gratitude, then discuss your needs. Every couple needs a safe, regular place to talk about the hard stuff and prevent fights before they happen! Click through to learn how xoxox

Companionship inventory, marriage meeting, weekly marriage check in or check up- whatever you call it, if you want a healthy, long lasting relationship, you should be doing it! One of the first posts of this site was How to Conduct a Weekly Companionship Inventory. That was almost two years ago! Its time to revisit this critical piece of marriage advice. A Weekly Marriage Check In: Why You Need It Marriage counselor Marcia Naomi Berger in her book, Marriage Meetings for Lasting Love: 30 Minutes a Week to the Relationship You’ve Always Wanted gives some pretty convincing evidence that these weekly… Read More

Book Review: For All Eternity

A Review of For All Eternity, a book by John Lund

A review of the book For All Eternity by Dr. John Lund. My friend Sabrina, who posted her Share the Love post with us last month had such great advice that she gleaned from the book For All Eternity that I knew I had to ask her to do a separate book review post. Even if you don’t think you’ll read the book, you should seriously get in on the advice/overview she’s written for us. This post is littered with gold nuggets of communication wisdom. Content communicating?? Gold! Thanks Sabrina! Book: For All Eternity by Dr. John Lund Reviewer: Sabrina… Read More