Healthy Marriage: Some Advice about the Five Conditions of a Lasting Healthy Marriage

Many marriages start off as good marriages, but over time turn stale or even hostile. At any given time huge numbers of couples are searching for ways to get their once healthy marriages back on track. There are five necessary conditions or factors which together can help you maintain (or rebuild) a strong, healthy marriage.

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Trust and the Healthy Family

Difficulty trusting yourself and others can create havoc in relationships. It may lead to an inability to commit, fear of intimacy or promiscuity. Major trust issues can evolve into suspiciousness, jealousy, stalking, spousal assault and even murder.

The origins of inability to trust are usually found in childhood. Children who have been sexually abused, betrayed, abandoned or put in danger often have big trust issues as adults.

Categories: Marriage, Parenting  |  Tags: commitment, family, Marriage, Parenting, relationships, trust  |  1 comment

Help Your Kids Grow, and Then Let Them Go

Parents with young children are totally involved in caring for and protecting their kids. They are enmeshed with their young children…But change comes quickly. Your kids learn to do things for themselves, and then demand to do them. They develop their own personalities.

Categories: Parenting  |  Tags: adulthood, children, codependency, kids, Parenting, parents, psychology, trust  |  2 comments