making a difference! • moms making a difference
During February, we’ll be focusing on certain entrants to our Who’s Your Valentine contest who are making a difference in the lives of their families through their love and example. This week, we’re talking about Tyler and Jenica Parcell from Provo, Utah. Jenica voted her husband, Tyler, to be her best Valentine in our contest.
Though they’ve been married for four years now, they’ve actually known each other for years. His family lived across the street from her cousin’s house …
Relationships: 3 Tips to Bringing Sexy Back in Your Marriage After a Babyrelationships • me • relationships • lifestyle
Is your relationship with your partner starting to get stale after becoming parents? Do you look back and reminisce over all the fun you had in the past?
Feeling like the fun times you had as a couple… fade away once kids enter the picture happens to most couples.
Marriage: 3 Essential Elements of a Healthy Relationship With Your Spouse…Falling in love is easy; staying in love requires effort. When the “swept-away” feeling of a young romance fades and you are brought back down to Earth by the day-to-day realities of careers, kids, obligations, and responsibilities, focusing on these three elements can help you maintain a long-lasting, healthy relationship
Happy Couple: Exposing Your Children to a Healthy Relationshipmom • parenting • parenting • education
Making time for your spouse… after dishes, carpools, dinner, more dishes, and laundry. By the time the tasks of the day are finished, there’s barely any time left to put up your feet and catch up on the Real Housewives of Orange County. Many busy moms crave those precious moments
Behavior: Strategies for Responding to a Passive Aggressive Spouse…It’s Saturday morning. You sweetly ask your husband to hang this year’s family photo on the wall lining the staircase. He, in turn, nods sweetly, affirming your request.
It’s Saturday afternoon. Your husband has not moved from the sofa since breakfast. You bring a hammer, a nail, and a tape
Habits: Signs of Passive Aggressive Behavior in a MarriageMy friend and neighbor shared this great story on my Blog about the last time (the final time?) her husband agreed to do the family’s grocery shopping:
I typically do all of the food shopping for my family…. My husband appreciates this, as food shopping is one of his
For Richer or For Poorer: Making Contradictions Work for a Successful Marriage…
For richer or for poorer, in sickness and in health; from the very first day we say “I do,” marriage is filled with contradictions. The secret to making your relationship last until “death do you part?” Finding the balance between extremes and establishing equilibrium when it matters.
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Marriage and Money: How to Avoid Fighting About FinancesI’m fairly certain that marital strife entered the picture right around the time the practice of bartering was replaced with the use of paper money. When we bartered, we all had the same power. As long as you had a skill or could make something, you could trade your skill…
5 Mistakes Unhappy Moms Make in the BedroomIntimacy is an important part of marriage. Yet, once kids enter the picture, sex can sometimes start to feel like a chore. It’s just one more thing on your to-do list—right up there with washing the sheets and packing school lunches.
Hey—I’ve been there. Sometimes I’m still there. When I’m…
5 Communication Mistakes Couples Make5 Communication Mistakes Unhappy Couples Make…
When I was unhappily married, I kept reading that communication problems were one of the main causes of most marital problems. I thought, “In this case, it’s not a communication problem. I’ve got a husband problem.”
As it turned out, however, I was wrong.
Ride a bike or walk to a close destination to which you would normally drive.
Date: Wed., May 30
Time: 2-3 p.m. ET
Book: Dad Rules by Treion Miller
