This article begins with the premise that words are indeed powerful. It attributes to words the power to hurt, heal, inspire, and control a person. With this attention and respect given to words, Julie Orlov presents five words that can end a marriage if used often enough. The first word of negative power is “Never.” […]

Marriage can be an incredibly exciting experience. It can be a joining of two best friends and lovers in a relationship of incredible love, joy, and passion that can feed the spirit and grow the heart. This kind of love takes courage, however. Not only that, it takes purposeful action. This kind of relationship can’t

HSP’s, or “highly sensitive people,” have a very high tolerance for dealing with difficult people. Where another person might flee, an HSP may buckle down and get prepared to deal with trouble. It isn’t that they are drawn to difficult relationships, it is more of a drive to help those who need it and a

Raising a teenager brings with it myriad challenges, with mistakes or behaviors some parents couldn’t conjure up in their strangest dreams. It is important for a parent to learn to cope with the mistakes their teen may make to keep the relationship from falling into an unhealthy cycle of suspicion and resentment. One way to

Dr. Judith Wurtman, the founder of a Harvard University hospital weight-loss facility, had an interesting conversation at a wedding with an overweight woman. The woman opened up to Wurtman, aware of her weight-loss clinic, but claimed that she needed a marriage counselor to truly fix her weight problem, which involved an overweight husband with no

There are many possible sources of stress in a relationship that may be more or less out of our hands, such as family illnesses, the daily work of running a home, or financial issues. Relationship stress can be exacerbated in the ways that we communicate and deal with the more external problems. Sometimes, the way

This article has a pretty easy core idea to get across: marriage isn’t easy. Western culture today tends to romanticize marriage and, indeed, romantic marriage is an idea that has grown more popular relatively recently, replacing in some places more traditional arranged marriages. While romantic marriages are the norm now, their romanticized nature often doesn’t

It’s generally pretty easy for us to acknowledge that we aren’t perfect. Yet, we can sometime find ourselves irritated or disappointed with our spouses or partners for not being perfect. In this context, not being perfect generally means not doing or saying what we would have liked for them to. Expecting them to always be

Throughout the world, marriage and long-term relationships are declining. In addition to that, marital sex is also declining. Marital sex in the United States is at once a week on average, for an average of seven minutes. Why is this? According to Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, it may be because marriage is based on the Christian

While a marriage certainly needs love to last, love is not in fact all that you need to keep things together unless it also has four specific elements to it. According to author Mark Gungor, love needs an affectionate element, which is the feeling of tenderness for another person and the desire to continue to