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How To Talk To Your Spouse About Resentment Without Starting An Argument

By Mary Ellen Goggin / April 28, 2021 / Comments Off on How To Talk To Your Spouse About Resentment Without Starting An Argument

It doesn’t make sense, really. Somehow, beneath the blood-boiling seething, you’re supposed to know how to talk to your spouse about resentment. That’s right. Talk about the resentment in your marriage, but don’t show resentment or start an argument. It’s a tall order when you think about it. You need to get this bitter indignation…

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5 Strategies To Consider If You’re Unhappy In Your Marriage And Don’t Know Why

By Mary Ellen Goggin / April 9, 2021 / Comments Off on 5 Strategies To Consider If You’re Unhappy In Your Marriage And Don’t Know Why

You never question it when you feel it. When happiness lifts your spirits like a kite on a Mary Poppins breezy day, you run with it…sometimes down the aisle. But what about the flip side of that? What happens when you’re unhappy in marriage…and don’t know why? Happiness is so fundamental to our sense of…

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How To Find Forgiveness After Infidelity When You’re The One Who Strayed

By Mary Ellen Goggin / March 22, 2021 / Comments Off on How To Find Forgiveness After Infidelity When You’re The One Who Strayed

Getting over an affair can be as difficult for the partner who cheated as it is for the one who was betrayed. And, whether you’re the one seeking or the one bestowing, forgiveness after infidelity is the coveted key to moving forward. If you are guilty of straying from your marriage vows, you know you…

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How To Talk With Your Spouse Respectfully So You Can Both Be Heard

By Mary Ellen Goggin / March 10, 2021 / Comments Off on How To Talk With Your Spouse Respectfully So You Can Both Be Heard

One of the best things about marriage is that you can be comfortable “being yourself.” One of the worst things about marriage is that you can be comfortable “being yourself.” And if that irony elicits a knowing chuckle, you’re not alone. Perhaps, in all that “comfort,” you have forgotten how to talk with your spouse…

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How To Save A Marriage After Cheating

By Mary Ellen Goggin / March 2, 2021 / Comments Off on How To Save A Marriage After Cheating

The scourge of infidelity can feel like a death blow – to your heart, to your marriage, to your family. And yet, you may be clinging to every breath of hope that you can survive it. But do you know how to save a marriage after cheating has imploded its very foundation? We all know…

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10 Unmistakable Signs Your Marriage Can Be Saved

By Mary Ellen Goggin / January 19, 2021 / Comments Off on 10 Unmistakable Signs Your Marriage Can Be Saved

Marriage, in its ideal state, is that exclusive union whose intimacy has the power to heal age-old wounds and save your faith in love. But what happens when that link to hope itself needs hope? What are some of the signs your marriage can be saved when you’re viewing your closeness in a rear-view mirror?…

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How A Weekend Marriage Retreat Can Change The Course Of Your Relationship

By Mary Ellen Goggin / December 28, 2020 / Comments Off on How A Weekend Marriage Retreat Can Change The Course Of Your Relationship

Rome wasn’t built in a day. Relationships aren’t built on a kiss. And marriages don’t fall apart over one argument. So what are the chances that one weekend marriage retreat can change the course of your relationship, let alone save it? The math might surprise you. If hindsight in marriage is 20/20 like most things…

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Couple in the throes of sexual infidelity.

BEFORE You Cheat, Here’s What You Need To Know About Surviving The Guilt Of Infidelity

By Mary Ellen Goggin / December 15, 2020 / Comments Off on BEFORE You Cheat, Here’s What You Need To Know About Surviving The Guilt Of Infidelity

If cheating spouses knew all that goes into surviving the guilt of infidelity, they would probably reconsider their straying. Betrayal is undeniably devastating to the unsuspecting spouse. But it also wounds and scars the one who cheats. Infidelity means different things to different people. There’s “the obvious,” of course. But there are also the various…

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