Happily Ever After: Why Are You Still Married?
Do you know why you’re still married? Have you ever asked yourself – or thought about it? Are you still married for the same reason you got married in the first place? Of course, to answer that question, you’d need to know why you really got married. Do you know?
Improving Your Marriage: What Do You Talk About?
Did you know that what you and your spouse talk about could be wrecking your health and destroying your marriage? It’s true; and most people don’t even realize it. What do you spend your time talking about – news, television, weather, politics, bills and debt, gas prices…? Do the things you talk about stress you out, or do they make you happy? It is important to listen to your own words, as they will show you what you are thinking; and, what you’re thinking is important because it creates your experience and your perception of reality.
3-Things That Can Dramatically Improve Your Health & Your Marriage
In life and marriage you have two-choices: Health and happiness; or Illness and unhappiness. It’s a sad fact; but most people are unhappy in life – and in marriage. But if this is a choice, why would people choose to be unhappy? And what can be done to to improve our marriage and our health?
Marriage: 3-Good Reasons Why You Should Put Energy Into Working On Your Marriage
With so many marriages ending in divorce, it is hard to believe all those people actually made an effort to repair their situations and learn about marriage – and their partner. I have observed, and found in my own, personal experience, that a little effort can go a long way when it comes to any relationship; and, conversely, no effort will make any relationship go away. When you take steps in one direction, others will tend to either follow you, or resist you. If you direct your energy – mental, emotional, and physical – toward creating a great relationship, that’s what you’ll eventually create.
But in order to expend any energy at all, or make any extra efforts in any particular direction, people need incentive. Marriage is something you are in all day every day; it’s a full-time job that requires thought and effort. Of course, you can either love your job or hate it; and your choice here makes all the difference in the world to your health, happiness, and life – even your financial situations. Why should you work to improve your marriage? Because your marriage will heal you and fulfill you, or it will kill you; the choice is yours, and the deciding factor is how much thought, positive emotion and constructive, loving energy you invest in your marriage. If you need incentives to work on improving your marriage, here are three good reasons to work on your marriage that apply to everyone:
Three Quick and Easy Ways to Dramatically Improve Your Marriage: Listen; Learn; and Love
If your marriage isn’t working for you, maybe you aren’t working enough for it. A marriage is a relationship; and no ship will steer its own course - or stay afloat very long without maintenance. If your relationship is feeling more like a "slave-ship," or a "war-ship," here are three-things you can do that will make it seem more like a "cruise-ship" - and help you turn your marriage into a dream vacation:
Marriage: 3-Essential Ingredients For a Successful Marriage - Incentive, a Willing Partner, & LUCK
You need more than a marriage certificate and good intentions to have a successful marriage. Commercial television programming and advertising would have you believe that finding a husband or wife is the difficult part of marriage; but, with over half of all marriages ending in divorce, it seems much easier to get married than it is to stay married. But there are things you can learn that will help you make your marriage a success.
Relationships: Why Your Relationship Sucks – and What You Can Do To Fix It
Imagine the most complicated piece of technology you can think of. Maybe you’re thinking of a computer or some advanced weapons or medical technology, or something along those lines. Now imagine that I told you to fix one of those things you’re imagining - without tools or instruction. You’d be lost. Now consider that, no matter what your high-tech example was, the most complicated technology available to humans is humans; and making them interact harmoniously requires thought, effort, and communication.
Love, and Differences, in Common… "Judge not."
From the beginning, we have been growing apart. This isn’t bad; it’s nature. Look at a tree, and you will notice that 
what begins as one trunk branches into many; and each branch also starts as one and divides into many – with each split sending smaller versions on diverging paths. Each path, however, ends the same – with a leaf, in the case of a tree.
The pattern of the branches is not unlike the branching of roots underneath the surface — invisible to the eye. That which is seen comes from that we cannot see; "As above, so below, as below, so above." Nature is a series of repeating patterns. When you look at little pieces of the pattern, you may see differences; but when you look at the big picture you see only similarities — or Unity, depending on how far you are able to "zoom out."
CARE in Relationships
In the United States, more than half of all marriages end in divorce. I don’t know what your experience has been; but, in my experience, more than half of those who don’t divorce are unhappy, if not miserable. It is quite rare, in fact, to see older couples looking happy and healthy, holding hands, dancing, or even smiling at each other. So if you see something like that, remember it; that’s a future worth thinking about.
Growing up, I often heard the saying, "The family that prays together stays together." Yet I have seen churches full of miserable people praying their hearts out to heal their relationship — sometimes the same people I hear arguing at the ball field, the grocery store, or at a restaurant. Worse still are those who simply ignore each other — blindly gazing off into space with eyes full of remorse or resentment. They aren’t thinking the same things, or about the same future. They’re praying, alright — but not together.
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The Belief Formula
