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Improving Intimacy Is your relationship lacking the intimacy it once had? With the pressure of a busy schedules, economic stress, and the multiple roles we all fill, it is only expected that we are all stressed and exhausted by the end of the day. With our energy levels tapped, our intimacy levels drop too. Carla Rosinski believes [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mixing Money and Marriage Find yourself at odds with your spouse about how to spend your hard earned money? Although no one likes to admit to being materialistic, we all are. How can we not be? Our entire society runs off one thing…money. We need it to put a roof over our head, food in our bodies and function [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Make Yourself Heard Ever feel like your spouse isn’t listening? Some people think that dating and getting to know someone can be the hardest part of a relationship. It requires a great amount of effort on both parts to keep things progressing. However, the hardest part of a relationship is actually the stage that most largely encapsulates a [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Postpartum Blues Are baby blues hurting your family and spouse? Some of us have spent our entire lives dreaming of what life would be like once we were all grown up. We planned out our weddings, our ideal mates, and our perfect nuclear family with 2.5 children. It is when life does not go exactly according to [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website In-Law Interference Is constant interference from your in-laws killing your marriage? We’ve all seen a football game where everything went from fantastic to devastating in mere minutes. It looks like a clear win; your team is ahead, defeating all obstacles in their path. Then BOOM, out of nowhere interference by the other team turns the game around [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Being a Parent, Not a Best Friend Is your friendship with your child hurting your marriage? Only a few shorts years ago, or so it seems, we were all children ourselves; laughing and playing with our friends, disobeying our parents, and tormenting the family pet. Before we knew it we were adults who were getting married and having children of our own. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Simple Truth “Relationships aren’t destroyed by cataclysmic arguments. They are eroded by the little things that happen over time. We’re all excited when a relationship starts. We watch what we do. We edit our actions and mind our words. We gloss over the details because we love the dream of what could be. We sacrifice the now [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Overcoming the Divide: Helping Couples Unite as Parents Are your diverse parenting styles breaking apart your marriage? Being part of a couple and getting married can be a very difficult process. You have two people from different backgrounds and lifestyles, coming together to start their life together. Their differences in opinion and lifestyle can be a relationship hot spot for conflict. Things tend [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Stepmom Coach Are you the outcast in your stepfamily? Dating and marriage is a process that is complicated enough on it’s own, never mind coming into a family that has already been established. Marrying someone with children from a previous relationship can be a delicate mind field that requires a certain finesse to master. Certified Master Stepfamily [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Is Financial Stress Killing Your Marriage? The current economic deficit has placed a significant strain on our wallets, our jobs, but most importantly, our relationships. Divorce rates are an unsettling 51% today, which means half of all marriages are ending in divorce. What is even more disturbing is that out of the couples getting divorced, approximately 80% of them attribute their [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website H.U.G. & K.I.S.S. Hierarchy Is your inability to read your partner ruining your relationship? We’ve all stumbled into those relationship traps where it can feel like we’re constantly sticking our foot in our mouths. Anything we say or do seems to land us even further into hot water with our spouse. Perhaps you’ve been stuck in similar situations in [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How to Live Happily Ever After Has your fairy tale marriage turned into a nightmare? Ripped from the pages of Jane Austen’s Pride & Prejudice we’ve been made to believe that happily ever after is possible. People spend years looking for their perfect partner and come to find that all the spark and je ne sais quoi that had attracted them [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Anxiety is Ruining My Relationship Anxiety is reaching epidemic proportions with nearly 50% of Americans meeting the criteria for an anxiety disorder at some point in their life. We worry about money, our health, safety, car accidents, whether or not people like us, traveling, work, and more. All this worry takes a huge toll-wasting an enormous amount of time and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How to Tell Your Spouse You Have Had an Affair They say that once trust is lost that it can never be regained. The ultimate betrayal of trust in a relationship is, without a doubt, an affair. People often don’t realize the consequences of their actions until after the act has been committed. Undoubtedly, the hardest part of an affair is when you come to [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fight Less, Love More Is your constant bickering ruining your relationship? We’ve all been in a relationship where the fights just never seem to end. We bicker about the little things, the big things, and the things that would matter to no one but us. What does all of this constant fighting do to our relationships? Acclaimed author Laurie [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Why Couples Need to Eat, Sleep & Play Together Is your hectic schedule damaging your relationship? We all have busy schedules filled with work, appointments, children’s activities, and family events. No matter how much we seem to get done we can’t seem to muster any more free time. This lack of time can begin to affect our families, and even our spouse. Dr. Kristen [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Discovering Your Amazing Marriage Ever felt like ending your marriage after a bad argument or affair? There could be a better solution. Marriage is one of the best and worst things you will ever go through in life. From arguments, lifestyle changes, children and even infidelity; there never seems to be a rule on how exactly you should handle [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ready to Spice up your Sex Life? Maybe you and your spouse started out having great sex on a regular basis. It might have been spontaneous, playful, energetic, and enjoyable. But over time, with hectic routines, kids to care for, and careers to balance, your sex life has suffered. Are you having sex less often? When you do have sex is it [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Teacup Parenting Are your actions as a parent sabotaging your child and spouse for life? Dr. Mike Daniels joins us to discuss the new phenomena of “teacup parenting”. We do our best to make sure that we raise our children to be responsible young adults. We nurture and care for them the best that we know how. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website To Divorce or Not Should you stay married or not? Are the issues in your relationship big enough to warrant a divorce. No matter how perfect a relationship may seem to the outside observer, there are always issues within a relationship that put stress on each of the partners. Although we may love our spouse, we can find ourselves [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Here Comes the Judgment They say that hindsight is 20/20. We often never see the real problems in a relationship until after they have exploded. With couples divorcing at an alarming rate, it may be time to call on a new relationship expert- someone who deals with divorce. There is no better way to learn than from your mistakes; [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mastering Our Master Conflict It is possible that the expression “opposites attract” could be as old as the concept of dating itself. We hear stories of good girls going for the bad guys, or a tight laced accountant falling for an outgoing actress. In these relationships there seems to be a balance between the two personalities that makes the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dating Advice That Will Save Your Marriage When we watch the interaction that occurs between the sexes we are often left wondering why such a huge communication gap still exists between men and women. Popular media has made the world conscious of this idea that women speak in a code that very few men have the ability to decipher. This imbalance can [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Balancing Children and your Marriage Do you ever feel like there are not enough hours in the day? Sure, we all say this, but it seems with each passing day our plates are loaded with more and more activities that we have to try and cram in. Remember the good ole’ days where you had time to go out to [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How to Be a Couple and Still Be Free Have you ever felt suffocated in your relationship? Perhaps you feel like you and your spouse are always fighting. It would seem as through the fights and arguments have consumed your relationship whole! No matter what you do, you can’t seem to escape from one argument before you’re in another brawl with your spouse. When [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How to Avoid Speed Bumps in the Relationship Road Trip Let’s face facts, no relationship is perfect! In the “relationship road trip” there are potholes, speed bumps and road kill that all couples have to try steer clear of. More often than not, when we have stopped paying attention, we run into something we didn’t mean to hit.  The best way to protect yourself, and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Learning to Trust Again It takes a lot of moving pieces to make a relationship work; such as patience and compromise. However, perhaps the most important element to any relationship is trust. Without trust a relationship can become stunted from growth. When trust is taken away from a relationship, it can crumble on it’s very foundation. Trust is one [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website After An Affair – Can Anything Positive Come of It? For most couples dealing with infidelity, the idea of anything good coming from an an affair seems impossible. When trust and intimacy are shattered, it’s easy to believe that nothing can ever fix them. But are couples who stay together and work through the issues surrounding infidelity able to rebuild the relationship to healthy place? Dr. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Why Did I Marry You Anyway? We often read about happy couples in romance novels and see healthy relationships in movies. This overexposure to the “ideal couple” often leaves us questioning our own relationships. We find flaws in our relationships that we often have no idea of how to overcome. Our lack of proper communication and skills can often leave couples [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Suspicion is Killing Me Do you obsess over suspicions of your spouse’s infidelity (either physical or emotional)? Dr. Nicole Imbraguglio returns to the show do discuss the reasons why we harbor suspicion towards our spouses and why some people are more likely than others to be bothered by it constantly. She also illuminates the difference between a healthy amount of [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website I Don’t Want A Divorce Today’s world is one of instant satisfaction and gratification. We want what we want when we want it. Before we know it our interest quickly fades and we are bored with our latest toy. In a world that teaches us out with the old and in with the new, how can anyone expect a marriage [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Look at Him With Fresh Eyes Do your days seem to always be filled with obligations and responsibilities to others? Chores to do, errands to run, children to chauffeur? With all the havoc of a modern world it is hard to make time for oneself, let alone their spouse. This hectic lifestyle is often what leaves a couple’s relationship in a [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website No Wimpy Parenting Sometimes It can seem like instead of you and your partner running the house, the kids are the ones calling the shots. Are you giving in too often and too easily? Dr. Kristin Wynns joins us on the show today to discuss the importance of holding on to parental control and how websites like No [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How To Win Your Wife’s Heart Forever Ever feel like you can never say or do the right thing in your wife’s eyes? Do you aim to impress and end up only causing her stress? We have the keys to making the special woman in your life smile! From remembering the little things, like anniversaries and birthdays, to planning a romantic getaway. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Relationship Cure: 5 Things to Help Strengthen Your Marriage Is your busy work schedule, kids, or financial issues making it hard for you and your partner to feel connected? Is trying to keep up with everything and everyone just weakening your marriage? Stephanie Ladd joins us to discuss how couples can re-ignite their marriage and overcome the lull of long term relationships. Stephanie Ladd has [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website She’s Put On So Much Weight, What Do I Do? Has weight become an issue in your marriage? Are obesity issues causing health, intimacy, and body image issues for you or your spouse? Dr. Paulomi Raiji joins us to discuss the prevalence of obesity problems in marriages the obesity rate in the country rises, as well covering which spouse is most to suffer from the physical [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dealing With Depression If you or your spouse suffer from depression, you already know how hard it can be on both of you. Maybe you feel like you don’t know how to handle your partner’s depression, or on the other hand, maybe you don’t think your partner is really understanding what you’re going through. How do you continue [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Avoiding Critical Mass Does it seem like your fights with your spouse turn explosive on a regular basis? Do you often find the argument reach the “point of no return”? Kristin Wynns, Ph.D., returns to the show to talk about how to avoid the critical mass in a relationship and keep the arguments from [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Keeping the Connection After Parenthood When you have a child, everything changes. But does that mean your marriage can’t be what it was before? Does it feel like you and your spouse are both connected to the kids, but not to each other?  Rhona Berens, Ph.D., joins the show to talk about how things change in a marriage after the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Working With Your Spouse Do you and your spouse work in the same field or business – maybe even in the same office? Do you feel like you can never really get away from work even when you’re at home, or are clashes at home bleeding into your work?  Dr. Julia Jacobs joins us on the show to discuss [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Where’s My Fairy Tale Ending? Do you feel disappointment that your marriage isn’t the storybook romance you’d hoped for? Do you find yourself wondering if maybe your partner isn’t the one you were meant to live happily ever after with after all? Jon and Beverly Meyerson are here to talk about what “happily ever after” really means – what really [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website It’s Complicated: Facebook and Your Marriage Lately, Facebook has been all over the news and on many people’s minds. But does it feel like this tool for social connection is actually driving you and your partner apart, or are you worried about its potential to do so? K. Jason and Kelli Krafsky join the show to discuss how Facebook and other [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Talk to Me Like I’m Someone You Love Does it feel like even when the fights between you and your partner are over, that things aren’t really resolved? Do you feel like you just aren’t connecting? Dr. Nancy Dreyfus joins the show to explain why superficial resolutions don’t fix the underlying problem, and to share an approach that will give you the right words to [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The 3 Things That Can Ruin Your Marriage Does it seem like the most serious arguments you and your partner have are always rooted in the same few things? Are you at your wit’s end from having the same arguments over and over? Dr. Tina Tessina returns to the show to talk about her book Money, Sex, and Kids: Stop Fighting About the Three [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How Are You and Your Partner Attached? Do either you or your partner have anxieties about your relationship?  Are you uncomfortable getting too close?  The way you each feel and behave in your relationship may actually be linked to your individual attachment styles. Psychiatrist and neuroscientist Dr. Amir Levine joins us to talk about the the theory behind Attached, a new book about [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 5 Simple Steps to Take Your Marriage from Good to Great Does it feel like your relationship is good enough, but not all that it could be?  Is “good enough” just not good enough anymore?  Dr. Terri Orbuch joins us on the show to talk about her book – 5 Simple Steps to Take Your Marriage from Good to Great. Terri is the project director of the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Keeping May-December Romance In Season Is the difference in age between you and your partner causing tension in your marriage?  Is it getting difficult to deal with others’ perceptions and opinions of your relationship?  Colette Segalla joins us to talk about both the challenges and benefits of relationships between partners of significantly different ages, and to tell us how you [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Project Happily Ever After Is your marriage no longer magical, but just plain miserable?  Does it feel like you’re trapped with no way of fixing things, to the point where you’re fantasizing about divorce, or worse?  Alisa Bowman returns to the show to discuss her upcoming book, Project: Happily Ever After – Saving Your Marriage When the Fairytale Falters, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website To the In-Laws’ House We Go Are you dreading that trip over the river and through the woods to your in-laws’ house this season?  Does it feel like going to visit the family brings more stress than joy to your holidays?  Dealing with in-laws can be complicated any time of the year, and feeling trapped under their roof during the already [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 10th Anniversary: Reflections of a Marriage Counselor Does 10 years of marriage seem like a piece of cake, or have you made it through the first ten years and wonder if you’ll make it for another 10? Dr. Tina Lepage returns to the show to let us behind the curtain of what a marriage counselor’s relationship is like and shares what she has [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Keeping the Holidays Happy With Your Step Family No matter how many “Happy Holidays” wishes you receive, the season can be just as stressful as it is enjoyable, and that stress can be even greater if you’re part of a blended family. Does shuffling the kids from one home to another feel too disruptive? Does it seem impossible to meet everyone’s vision of [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Loving On Purpose Do you think you’re letting too much pass you by when you leave things to chance? Do you want to make the most of what you have with the ones you love? Dennis Yanke returns to the show to talk about what it means to “love on purpose” and how it can improve your relationships. Dennis [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Creating a Couple Vision Statement Do you sometimes feel like you and your partner aren’t working toward the same goals in your relationship? Does it seem like you’re just not on the same page with each other? Dr. Carol Ummel Lindquist, a licensed Clinical Psychologist in Laguna Beach, California, joins us to discuss how creating a “Couple Vision Statement” can help [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Making Interfaith Marriage Work Do you and your partner follow different religions? Are you unsure of how to respect and appreciate your partner’s beliefs without compromising your own? Are you worried about how your children will identify, and what your families will think? Reverend Laurie Sue Brockway, an ordained nondenominational minister, joins us today to discuss what interfaith couples face [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Making Interfaith Marriage Work Do you and your partner follow different religions? Are you unsure of how to respect and appreciate your partner’s beliefs without compromising your own? Are you worried about how your children will identify, and what your families will think? Reverend Laurie Sue Brockway, an ordained nondenominational minister, joins us today to discuss what interfaith couples face [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How Being a Little Selfish Can Enhance Your Marriage Do you sometimes feel like you’ve lost yourself in your marriage? Has putting the focus on the two of you as a pair started to make you feel insecure with yourself? Andrea Gross joins us on the show to discuss how a healthy marriage starts with you as an individual, and has everything to do [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How Being a Little Selfish Can Enhance Your Marriage Do you sometimes feel like you’ve lost yourself in your marriage? Has putting the focus on the two of you as a pair started to make you feel insecure with yourself? Andrea Gross joins us on the show to discuss how a healthy marriage starts with you as an individual, and has everything to do [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Don’t Let Your Marriage Go Into a Recession Are money issues making you feel like your marriage is bankrupt? Money issues pop up in every marriage at some point and when the economy is in a recession, these problems are intensified. Many people expect their spouses to have exactly the same view of spending and finances and have difficulty accepting the differences in their [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Don’t Let Your Marriage Go Into a Recession Are money issues making you feel like your marriage is bankrupt? Money issues pop up in every marriage at some point and when the economy is in a recession, these problems are intensified. Many people expect their spouses to have exactly the same view of spending and finances and have difficulty accepting the differences in their [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Does Absence Really Make The Heart Grow Fonder? Do you or your spouse have to do a lot of traveling for work? Does it feel like rather than bringing you closer together – making the heart grow fonder – your time apart is just creating tension? Archana Aragon joins us to talk about how time away from your partner can affect your relationship, and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Does Absence Really Make The Heart Grow Fonder? Do you or your spouse have to do a lot of traveling for work? Does it feel like rather than bringing you closer together – making the heart grow fonder – your time apart is just creating tension? Archana Aragon joins us to talk about how time away from your partner can affect your relationship, and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Keys to a New Intimacy Are the expectations we put on our spouse to blame for the disintegration of intimacy and connectedness? Do you consider yourself a victim of your spouse’s unreasonable behavior, or are you simply bored of your spouse? Dr. Judith Sherven and Dr. Jim Sniechowski join us to talk about why many people are so quick to abandon [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Keys to a New Intimacy Are the expectations we put on our spouse to blame for the disintegration of intimacy and connectedness? Do you consider yourself a victim of your spouse’s unreasonable behavior, or are you simply bored of your spouse? Dr. Judith Sherven and Dr. Jim Sniechowski join us to talk about why many people are so quick to abandon [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How To Keep From Being Pureed By Your Blended Family If you’re a part of a blended family, you know how complicated things can be, especially when you’re starting out. Are you having trouble relating to your new stepchildren? Do you just not feel as much like a family as you expected? Barbara Keyworth joins us to discuss the things that can cause tension in [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How To Keep From Being Pureed By Your Blended Family If you’re a part of a blended family, you know how complicated things can be, especially when you’re starting out. Are you having trouble relating to your new stepchildren? Do you just not feel as much like a family as you expected? Barbara Keyworth joins us to discuss the things that can cause tension in [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Why Don’t You Understand? Do you feel like the ways you and your partner think just don’t match up? Does it feel like it might be impossible to really understand each other? Susie Leonard Weller, author of Why Don’t You Understand?: Improve Family Communication with the 4 Thinking Styles joins us to explain how we can improve our communication [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Why Don’t You Understand? Do you feel like the ways you and your partner think just don’t match up? Does it feel like it might be impossible to really understand each other? Susie Leonard Weller, author of Why Don’t You Understand?: Improve Family Communication with the 4 Thinking Styles joins us to explain how we can improve our communication [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Three’s a Crowd: Dealing With Your Spouse’s Ex Is your new spouse’s ex more of a presence in your life than you expected? Are you finding it hard to deal with? Dr. Molly Parks joins us to discuss the critical issues you need to address when dealing with your partner’s ex so you can keep the harmony in your new family. Molly has over [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Three’s a Crowd: Dealing With Your Spouse’s Ex Is your new spouse’s ex more of a presence in your life than you expected? Are you finding it hard to deal with? Dr. Molly Parks joins us to discuss the critical issues you need to address when dealing with your partner’s ex so you can keep the harmony in your new family. Molly has over [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Why Your Spouse Won’t Listen Does it seem like no matter how hard you try to communicate and express your love to your partner, your message just isn’t getting through? Sarah DeNome joins us to discuss the different ways people express and comprehend love, and to tell us how we can better communicate those feelings to our partners [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Why Your Spouse Won’t Listen Does it seem like no matter how hard you try to communicate and express your love to your partner, your message just isn’t getting through? Sarah DeNome joins us to discuss the different ways people express and comprehend love, and to tell us how we can better communicate those feelings to our partners [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website What Do Men Really Want? (It’s Not What You Think.) There are a lot of stereotypes about men and what they want, and nearly everyone has heard them. But believing that men are as simple as the stereotypes say can make you miss out on more meaningful ways to make him happy and strengthen your relationship together. Do you think you know what men really [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website What Do Men Really Want? (It’s Not What You Think.) There are a lot of stereotypes about men and what they want, and nearly everyone has heard them. But believing that men are as simple as the stereotypes say can make you miss out on more meaningful ways to make him happy and strengthen your relationship together. Do you think you know what men really [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Worst Marriage Advice Ever We’re bombarded with advice on how to fix our relationships from almost every angle — from family, friends, and media. But how much of that advice is really good advice? Dr. Katrina Kuzyszyn-Jones returns to the show to share some pieces of marriage advice she’s heard that can do a lot more harm than good. Katrina [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Worst Marriage Advice Ever We’re bombarded with advice on how to fix our relationships from almost every angle — from family, friends, and media. But how much of that advice is really good advice? Dr. Katrina Kuzyszyn-Jones returns to the show to share some pieces of marriage advice she’s heard that can do a lot more harm than good. Katrina [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website SHM Encore: Do You Still Love Me? Do you feel that your spouse’s lack of appreciation is a sign that he or she is no longer happy with the relationship? Or is your spouse upset with your marriage while you think things are going fine? This dynamic can lead to feelings of betrayal that quickly spiral into much larger problems like suspicion and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Making Your Married Sex Irresistible Has your sex life with your spouse cooled down since you got married?  Are you not getting the same satisfaction that you used to, and do you feel like there’s nothing you can do about it? Dr. Trina Read joins us to talk about her book, Till Sex Do Us Part: Making Your Married Sex Irresistible, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Making Your Married Sex Irresistible Has your sex life with your spouse cooled down since you got married?  Are you not getting the same satisfaction that you used to, and do you feel like there’s nothing you can do about it? Dr. Trina Read joins us to talk about her book, Till Sex Do Us Part: Making Your Married Sex Irresistible, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Five Things You Should Say to Your Spouse Each Day It’s easy to get caught up in the negative things in our lives, but are you letting the same happen in your relationship? Are you no longer able to see the good things in your marriage? Drs. Charley and Liz Schmitz join us to discuss how to break out of the cycle of negativity and put [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Five Things You Should Say to Your Spouse Each Day It’s easy to get caught up in the negative things in our lives, but are you letting the same happen in your relationship? Are you no longer able to see the good things in your marriage? Drs. Charley and Liz Schmitz join us to discuss how to break out of the cycle of negativity and put [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Up to Sexual Standards Do you feel like you can’t live up to what your spouse expects from you in the bedroom? Or do you feel you’re not getting everything you think you should get from your spouse? Dr. Sara Rosenquist joins us to discuss how our culture’s emphasis on sex can give us unrealistic expectations and put a strain [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Up to Sexual Standards Do you feel like you can’t live up to what your spouse expects from you in the bedroom? Or do you feel you’re not getting everything you think you should get from your spouse? Dr. Sara Rosenquist joins us to discuss how our culture’s emphasis on sex can give us unrealistic expectations and put a strain [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website What Happy Couples Know About Marriage Is your marriage not all you expected it to be? Are you not sure if there’s something wrong, or if this is just the natural progression of a relationship? Harry Harrison, author of 1001 Things Happy Couples Know About Marriage, joins us to share some of the lessons he’s compiled from talking to successful long-term couples, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website What Happy Couples Know About Marriage Is your marriage not all you expected it to be? Are you not sure if there’s something wrong, or if this is just the natural progression of a relationship? Harry Harrison, author of 1001 Things Happy Couples Know About Marriage, joins us to share some of the lessons he’s compiled from talking to successful long-term couples, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Overcoming The Monogamy Challenge Has your sex life become so dissatisfying that you feel restless with your marriage, or even resentful of your spouse? Marnia Robinson joins us to take a look at the science behind why steamy romance is destined to fade, what that means for the future of marriage, as well as to share some of her 31 [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Overcoming The Monogamy Challenge Has your sex life become so dissatisfying that you feel restless with your marriage, or even resentful of your spouse? Marnia Robinson joins us to take a look at the science behind why steamy romance is destined to fade, what that means for the future of marriage, as well as to share some of her 31 [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Advocating for Your Child in the School System A child who’s having difficulties in school can create a lot of unexpected stress in a relationship. Do you and your spouse have different ideas of what’s best when it comes to your child’s education? How can you communicate with each other and with your child to understand what’s happening at school, and what you [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Advocating for Your Child in the School System A child who’s having difficulties in school can create a lot of unexpected stress in a relationship. Do you and your spouse have different ideas of what’s best when it comes to your child’s education? How can you communicate with each other and with your child to understand what’s happening at school, and what you [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Discipline with Love When kids start acting out, the strain on the marriage is immediate. Are the different approaches that you and your spouse take toward discipline and the examples you set making the problem worse? Tina Lepage joins us  to discuss the three reasons why almost all children act out, as well as common mistakes couples make and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Discipline with Love When kids start acting out, the strain on the marriage is immediate. Are the different approaches that you and your spouse take toward discipline and the examples you set making the problem worse? Tina Lepage joins us  to discuss the three reasons why almost all children act out, as well as common mistakes couples make and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Why Not To Give Up When things get difficult, it’s easy to start questioning whether it’s really worth it to stay in your marriage.  Does it seem like you aren’t communicating anymore? How can you resolve your conflicts when it feels like nothing is working? John Wilder joins us to take a look at what you can do when you’re considering [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Why Not To Give Up When things get difficult, it’s easy to start questioning whether it’s really worth it to stay in your marriage.  Does it seem like you aren’t communicating anymore? How can you resolve your conflicts when it feels like nothing is working? John Wilder joins us to take a look at what you can do when you’re considering [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Is A Marriage Workshop For You? Have you considered traditional marriage counseling, but found yourself curious about other possible options? Marriage workshops are a growing alternative to traditional counseling with a more classroom-like approach, and have been increasing in popularity both with married couples and with engaged couples who want to plan for the future. Natasha Crawford, founder of a new marriage [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Is A Marriage Workshop For You? Have you considered traditional marriage counseling, but found yourself curious about other possible options? Marriage workshops are a growing alternative to traditional counseling with a more classroom-like approach, and have been increasing in popularity both with married couples and with engaged couples who want to plan for the future. Natasha Crawford, founder of a new marriage [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Happy Mother’s Day: Making Your Wife Feel Appreciated as a Mother With Mother’s Day just around the corner, we’re all reminded just how important it is to show appreciation for the mothers in our lives. But sometimes we can forget that it’s just as important to show appreciation and support for your wife’s role as a mother throughout the rest of the year. What are some [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Happy Mother’s Day: Making Your Wife Feel Appreciated as a Mother With Mother’s Day just around the corner, we’re all reminded just how important it is to show appreciation for the mothers in our lives. But sometimes we can forget that it’s just as important to show appreciation and support for your wife’s role as a mother throughout the rest of the year. What are some [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Are You Making The Same Mistakes The Second Time Around? Having a great marriage is tough work. In second marriages, factors like ex-spouses, step children, and fears and insecurities from the last marriage make things even more difficult. Are you afraid your current marriage will end up like your last one? Tim Lewis joins us to discuss the unique pitfalls of remarriages and what steps you [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Are You Making The Same Mistakes The Second Time Around? Having a great marriage is tough work. In second marriages, factors like ex-spouses, step children, and fears and insecurities from the last marriage make things even more difficult. Are you afraid your current marriage will end up like your last one? Tim Lewis joins us to discuss the unique pitfalls of remarriages and what steps you [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Love Your Wife… Get Better Sex It’s no secret that for most problems, men like clear-cut instructions – and relationships are no different. Dennis Yanke joins us to discuss his book, Love Your Wife… Get Better Sex, and talk about his manual for not just improving your sex life, but deepening the intimacy and emotional connection as well. Dennis is a veteran [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Love Your Wife… Get Better Sex It’s no secret that for most problems, men like clear-cut instructions – and relationships are no different. Dennis Yanke joins us to discuss his book, Love Your Wife… Get Better Sex, and talk about his manual for not just improving your sex life, but deepening the intimacy and emotional connection as well. Dennis is a veteran [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Saving Your Marriage After Infidelity Adultery leaves many spouses thinking that there will never be any trust in the relationship and that divorce is the inevitable conclusion. How likely is it that your marriage will survive infidelity, and is it possible to rebuild trust and respect? Mary Jo Rapini joins us to explore the different reasons men and women cheat, the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Saving Your Marriage After Infidelity Adultery leaves many spouses thinking that there will never be any trust in the relationship and that divorce is the inevitable conclusion. How likely is it that your marriage will survive infidelity, and is it possible to rebuild trust and respect? Mary Jo Rapini joins us to explore the different reasons men and women cheat, the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website What To Do When Your Kids Start Dating Are you dreading the day when your kids start dating? Different parenting styles, youthful defiance, and parental concern may seem like recipe for disaster. It’s no wonder that parents of teens often have some of the lowest marital satisfaction. Annie Fox joins us to discuss what to expect when your kids reach dating age, how to [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website What To Do When Your Kids Start Dating Are you dreading the day when your kids start dating? Different parenting styles, youthful defiance, and parental concern may seem like recipe for disaster. It’s no wonder that parents of teens often have some of the lowest marital satisfaction. Annie Fox joins us to discuss what to expect when your kids reach dating age, how to [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How To Keep Your Work From Killing Your Marriage With today’s shaky economic climate, spending a few extra hours at work every week is necessary just to get by. But where is the line between doing what it takes to provide for the family, and avoiding the family altogether? Dr. Nicole Imbraguglio returns to the show to examine how dedicating too much time to work, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How To Keep Your Work From Killing Your Marriage With today’s shaky economic climate, spending a few extra hours at work every week is necessary just to get by. But where is the line between doing what it takes to provide for the family, and avoiding the family altogether? Dr. Nicole Imbraguglio returns to the show to examine how dedicating too much time to work, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 5 Tools For Conflict Resolution The biggest hurdle to fixing a relationship plagued by conflict is acknowledging the problem, but how do you resolve the underlying disputes without falling into old habits and fighting even more? Will strategies designed for both spouses be effective when only one spouse is willing to work toward solving the problem? Paul Shaffer returns to the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 5 Tools For Conflict Resolution The biggest hurdle to fixing a relationship plagued by conflict is acknowledging the problem, but how do you resolve the underlying disputes without falling into old habits and fighting even more? Will strategies designed for both spouses be effective when only one spouse is willing to work toward solving the problem? Paul Shaffer returns to the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Stop The Fighting Has communicating with your spouse become a lost cause? Does he or she seem not to have any understanding of where you’re coming from, or just flat out refuse to engage – leading to fighting and resentment? Paul Shaffer joins us to discuss the top 5 factors that create communication stalemates in marriages and other ideas [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Stop The Fighting Has communicating with your spouse become a lost cause? Does he or she seem not to have any understanding of where you’re coming from, or just flat out refuse to engage – leading to fighting and resentment? Paul Shaffer joins us to discuss the top 5 factors that create communication stalemates in marriages and other ideas [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Don’t Let Your Career Kill Your Marriage Have late nights and early mornings at the office become the norm? Has your marriage lost it’s spark because your spouse seems to care more about work than the relationship? Natasha Crawford joins us to explore the difference between hard work and neglecting your marriage, as well as examining the factors that make spouses likely to [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Don’t Let Your Career Kill Your Marriage Have late nights and early mornings at the office become the norm? Has your marriage lost it’s spark because your spouse seems to care more about work than the relationship? Natasha Crawford joins us to explore the difference between hard work and neglecting your marriage, as well as examining the factors that make spouses likely to [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How To Fix Your Spouse’s Bad Habits Are you tired of the dirty clothes never making their way to the washer? The nagging? Being embarrassed in public? Or just plain old nose picking? Is there a way to get your spouse to drop the bad habits without reading the riot act? Jennifer Coleman returns to the show do discuss why it’s sometimes [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How To Fix Your Spouse’s Bad Habits Are you tired of the dirty clothes never making their way to the washer? The nagging? Being embarrassed in public? Or just plain old nose picking? Is there a way to get your spouse to drop the bad habits without reading the riot act? Jennifer Coleman returns to the show do discuss why it’s sometimes [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Will Your Marriage Last Forever? Have your expectations of what a “perfect” marriage should be left you to wonder whether the problems in your relationship will keep you from living “happily ever after” with your spouse? Dr. Katrina Kuzyszyn-Jones returns to the show to examine what makes successful marriages last and what couples who have been married for two months [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Will Your Marriage Last Forever? Have your expectations of what a “perfect” marriage should be left you to wonder whether the problems in your relationship will keep you from living “happily ever after” with your spouse? Dr. Katrina Kuzyszyn-Jones returns to the show to examine what makes successful marriages last and what couples who have been married for two months [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Scoring Big On Valentine’s Day Are you in a last-minute panic about which flowers to buy, where to make dinner reservations, and whether or not you bought this same card for your wife last year? Are you trying to figure out how to top the Valentine’s Day gift you bought last February? Dr. Michael Hall returns to the show to [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Scoring Big On Valentine’s Day Are you in a last-minute panic about which flowers to buy, where to make dinner reservations, and whether or not you bought this same card for your wife last year? Are you trying to figure out how to top the Valentine’s Day gift you bought last February? Dr. Michael Hall returns to the show to [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How Will Infertility Affect Your Marriage? Has the inability to conceive created problems for your personal health, relationship with your spouse, or the priorities in your marriage? Harboring guilt or resentment quickly leads to a breakdown in communication that puts your marriage in serious jeopardy. Dr. Christina Rush joins us to discuss the emotional and psychological impact of infertility on both [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How Will Infertility Affect Your Marriage? Has the inability to conceive created problems for your personal health, relationship with your spouse, or the priorities in your marriage? Harboring guilt or resentment quickly leads to a breakdown in communication that puts your marriage in serious jeopardy. Dr. Christina Rush joins us to discuss the emotional and psychological impact of infertility on both [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Staying Married For The Kids Have you found yourself wondering whether it’s better to stay in a troubled marriage than separate from your spouse for the sake of your children?  Is staying together when there are problems in the marriage really better than splitting? How perceptive are children about the happiness of their parents and if you do decided to [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Staying Married For The Kids Have you found yourself wondering whether it’s better to stay in a troubled marriage than separate from your spouse for the sake of your children?  Is staying together when there are problems in the marriage really better than splitting? How perceptive are children about the happiness of their parents and if you do decided to [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Anger Management Do seemingly insignificant problems cause outbursts from you or your spouse? Are even the simplest problems impossible to resolve because of flaring tempers? Dr. Julia Messer joins us to discuss what differentiates normal, healthy anger from a chronic problem that impacts not just your marriage, but all your relationships, as well as some of [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Anger Management Do seemingly insignificant problems cause outbursts from you or your spouse? Are even the simplest problems impossible to resolve because of flaring tempers? Dr. Julia Messer joins us to discuss what differentiates normal, healthy anger from a chronic problem that impacts not just your marriage, but all your relationships, as well as some of [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Can Your Marriage Survive A Baby? After the excitement of the birth has worn off, infants can place a lot of strain on a relationship. Do you find it hard to devote the time to your spouse and marriage that you used to? Are your children toddlers and now that you have a little more time, you feel like you hardly [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Can Your Marriage Survive A Baby? After the excitement of the birth has worn off, infants can place a lot of strain on a relationship. Do you find it hard to devote the time to your spouse and marriage that you used to? Are your children toddlers and now that you have a little more time, you feel like you hardly [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Is Marriage Counseling A Waste Of Your Time? Is it possible that the one hour a week approach to marriage counseling could be doing more harm than good to your relationship? Is the marriage counseling model driven more by the counselors, or by what your insurance will cover? John Wilder joins us to discuss the difference between the counseling and coaching models of marriage [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Is Marriage Counseling A Waste Of Your Time? Is it possible that the one hour a week approach to marriage counseling could be doing more harm than good to your relationship? Is the marriage counseling model driven more by the counselors, or by what your insurance will cover? John Wilder joins us to discuss the difference between the counseling and coaching models of marriage [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website SHM Encore: The 4 Step Relationship Review Married life can be hectic – are you taking time to cover the nuts and bolts of your relationship on a regular basis? Cory Huff from AGoodHusband.net and HusbandsAndDads.com joins us to talk about a weekly 4 Step Relationship Review that he has implemented in his marriage and the impact it has had on his relationship. Cory discusses how he [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How Fair Is Your Marriage? Have you yourself constantly keeping score of the things your spouse has done that upset you? Does it feel like your spouse should know when you feel that something is unfair if he or she really loves you?  Dr. B. Janet Hibbs joins us to discuss why our ideas about fairness often differ from those [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How Fair Is Your Marriage? Have you yourself constantly keeping score of the things your spouse has done that upset you? Does it feel like your spouse should know when you feel that something is unfair if he or she really loves you?  Dr. B. Janet Hibbs joins us to discuss why our ideas about fairness often differ from those [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website On The Brink Of Divorce Is a separation looming on the horizon of your relationship? Ideally, a couple can recognize their problems and get help before divorce is considered an option, but all too often, couples will allow conflict and communication issues to fester until marriage counseling is seen as a last ditch effort on the way to divorce court. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website On The Brink Of Divorce Is a separation looming on the horizon of your relationship? Ideally, a couple can recognize their problems and get help before divorce is considered an option, but all too often, couples will allow conflict and communication issues to fester until marriage counseling is seen as a last ditch effort on the way to divorce court. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Secrets of Great Marriages A great marriage can seem like a bit of a mystery when conflict and communication issues are part of your daily routine. What are the secrets that couples with great marriages who know how to weather both the good and bat times are using in their relationships? Linda and Charlie Bloom join us to discuss what [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Secrets of Great Marriages A great marriage can seem like a bit of a mystery when conflict and communication issues are part of your daily routine. What are the secrets that couples with great marriages who know how to weather both the good and bat times are using in their relationships? Linda and Charlie Bloom join us to discuss what [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 7 Ways To Get More Sex Sometimes, a lack of sex can be due to unresolved issues in the marriage, but often, it’s simply that we’ve become too caught up with daily life to change the status quo. Grab a pen, because Dr. Tina Lepage joins us to share seven (actually eight!) tips you can put to work right now to [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 7 Ways To Get More Sex Sometimes, a lack of sex can be due to unresolved issues in the marriage, but often, it’s simply that we’ve become too caught up with daily life to change the status quo. Grab a pen, because Dr. Tina Lepage joins us to share seven (actually eight!) tips you can put to work right now to [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Unfaithful: Hope And Healing After Infidelity When first dealing with infidelity, the pain and shame can make recovery seem unlikely. Too many people see an affair as a death-sentence for a marriage, but Gary and Mona Shriver are proof that recovery and forgiveness are possible and worth the effort and have created a ministry dedicated to couples whose marriages have been [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Unfaithful: Hope And Healing After Infidelity When first dealing with infidelity, the pain and shame can make recovery seem unlikely. Too many people see an affair as a death-sentence for a marriage, but Gary and Mona Shriver are proof that recovery and forgiveness are possible and worth the effort and have created a ministry dedicated to couples whose marriages have been [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website An Introduction To PAIRS You may have heard of PAIRS workshops for improving the intimacy in your marriage, but what issues can it address in your marriage, and is it the right environment for you and your spouse? Dr. Susan Orenstein joins us to talk about the PAIRS workshops that have become increasingly popular for both happily and unhappily [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website An Introduction To PAIRS You may have heard of PAIRS workshops for improving the intimacy in your marriage, but what issues can it address in your marriage, and is it the right environment for you and your spouse? Dr. Susan Orenstein joins us to talk about the PAIRS workshops that have become increasingly popular for both happily and unhappily [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Change Your Mindset, Not Your Man Why is it so much more tempting to get rid of your spouse rather than to work on the issues causing problems in your marriage? Sally Watkins joins us to discuss her new book, Change Your Mindset, Not Your Man, and explore how men and women are socialized to have certain expectations of how a [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Change Your Mindset, Not Your Man Why is it so much more tempting to get rid of your spouse rather than to work on the issues causing problems in your marriage? Sally Watkins joins us to discuss her new book, Change Your Mindset, Not Your Man, and explore how men and women are socialized to have certain expectations of how a [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Going Back To School Without Putting Your Marriage In Detention Whether it’s full-time, or during the evenings, a spouse in school can create a lot of tension in a marriage. It’s not just a couple’s schedules that are impacted, but everything from household chores and time with the kids to intimacy with your spouse. Dr. Nicole Imbragugli0 joins us to look at what aspects of [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Going Back To School Without Putting Your Marriage In Detention Whether it’s full-time, or during the evenings, a spouse in school can create a lot of tension in a marriage. It’s not just a couple’s schedules that are impacted, but everything from household chores and time with the kids to intimacy with your spouse. Dr. Nicole Imbraguglio joins us to look at what aspects of [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Is Your Family Tree To Blame For Your Fights? Are the unresolved conflicts in your marriage less about an unwillingness to compromise and more about the differences in your families of origin and how you were raised? Is the all too common reaction of assuming that our own approach is right, so our spouse must be wrong making the rift bigger? Marilyn Harding joins [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Is Your Family Tree To Blame For Your Fights? Are the unresolved conflicts in your marriage less about an unwillingness to compromise and more about the differences in your families of origin and how you were raised? Is the all too common reaction of assuming that our own approach is right, so our spouse must be wrong making the rift bigger? Marilyn Harding joins [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rising To New Heights With Your Wingspouse The demands of a high-level executive or political job can often overrun a marriage, and leave the other spouse with the option of trying to pursue a career of his or her own and risk dividing the marriage, or solely being the stay-at-home parent and feeling unfulfilled, unappreciated, and trapped. Is there any way to [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rising To New Heights With Your Wingspouse The demands of a high-level executive or political job can often overrun a marriage, and leave the other spouse with the option of trying to pursue a career of his or her own and risk dividing the marriage, or solely being the stay-at-home parent and feeling unfulfilled, unappreciated, and trapped. Is there any way to [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Facebook Affairs Social networks like Facebook and MySpace can be a great way to get in touch with friends and classmates from your past, but also make emotional and sometimes physical relationships that harm your marriage as easy as clicking and typing. Sage Navarra joins us to explore what makes these online relationships so appealing, what causes [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Facebook Affairs Social networks like Facebook and MySpace can be a great way to get in touch with friends and classmates from your past, but also make emotional and sometimes physical relationships that harm your marriage as easy as clicking and typing. Sage Navarra joins us to explore what makes these online relationships so appealing, what causes [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Don’t Let Your New Job Cost You Your Old Spouse Changing jobs, or even careers has become a common occurrence in today’s economic climate and can be one of the most disruptive events in a couple’s relationship. Dr. Tina Lepage returns to the show to take a look at what makes these transitions so stressful to a marriage and shares tips on how to keep [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Don’t Let Your New Job Cost You Your Old Spouse Changing jobs, or even careers has become a common occurrence in today’s economic climate and can be one of the most disruptive events in a couple’s relationship. Dr. Tina Lepage returns to the show to take a look at what makes these transitions so stressful to a marriage and shares tips on how to keep [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Fight That Never Ends When an argument is brewing, do you know exactly how it will play out before the first angry word is said? Are you constantly having the same argument over and over without ever resolving the root issue? Stephen Hawthorne joins us to examine why we avoid tackling the problems that cause us to have the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Fight That Never Ends When an argument is brewing, do you know exactly how it will play out before the first angry word is said? Are you constantly having the same argument over and over without ever resolving the root issue? Stephen Hawthorne joins us to examine why we avoid tackling the problems that cause us to have the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Amish Marriage Survival Tips Divorce is almost non-existent in the Amish community, but is there anything we can learn from their approach without giving up modern life? Suzanne Woods Fisher joins us to discuss her latest book, Amish Peace: Simple Wisdom for a Complicated World. In the book, Suzanne shares stories from the time she spent researching and living [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Amish Marriage Survival Tips Divorce is almost non-existent in the Amish community, but is there anything we can learn from their approach without giving up modern life? Suzanne Woods Fisher joins us to discuss her latest book, Amish Peace: Simple Wisdom for a Complicated World. In the book, Suzanne shares stories from the time she spent researching and living [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Whose Fault Is The Affair? Has an affair left you unable to trust or respect your spouse, or are you concerned that a growing emotional distance between you and your partner may lead to infidelity? Dr. Stephen Frueh returns to the show to discuss what role each spouse plays in an affair and recovery and take a look at traditional [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Whose Fault Is The Affair? Has an affair left you unable to trust or respect your spouse, or are you concerned that a growing emotional distance between you and your partner may lead to infidelity? Dr. Stephen Frueh returns to the show to discuss what role each spouse plays in an affair and recovery and take a look at traditional [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website What Happened To Your Sex Drive? Has a lack of sex become an indicator of bigger problems in your marriage? Is the stress of raising kids and working simply compounding the problem? Alisa Bowman joins us to discuss why it is so easy to write off a sexless marriage as finished, why we lose desire in the first place, and what [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website What Happened To Your Sex Drive? Has a lack of sex become an indicator of bigger problems in your marriage? Is the stress of raising kids and working simply compounding the problem? Alisa Bowman joins us to discuss why it is so easy to write off a sexless marriage as finished, why we lose desire in the first place, and what [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Is Your TV Ruining Your Marriage? Has the need to check one more email, take one more call, or watch one more episode made family time and one-on-one communication with your spouse an impossibility? Do you feel that your partner has tuned you out in favor of constant connectivity to things outside your marriage? Dr. Colleen Hamilton returns to the show [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Is Your TV Ruining Your Marriage? Has the need to check one more email, take one more call, or watch one more episode made family time and one-on-one communication with your spouse an impossibility? Do you feel that your partner has tuned you out in favor of constant connectivity to things outside your marriage? Dr. Colleen Hamilton returns to the show [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Marriage First Aid Kit Is it inevitable that as a marriage matures, satisfaction and communication suffer, or are we simply ill-equipped to manage the emotional changes that are a natural part of relationships? Dr. Bryce Kaye joins us to explore the main reasons marriages lose their verve and how understanding the reflexive nature of our emotions can help repair them, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Marriage First Aid Kit Is it inevitable that as a marriage matures, satisfaction and communication suffer, or are we simply ill-equipped to manage the emotional changes that are a natural part of relationships? Dr. Bryce Kaye joins us to explore the main reasons marriages lose their verve and how understanding the reflexive nature of our emotions can help repair them, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Spotting An Emotionally Destructive Marriage The signs of physical abuse are often easy to recognize, but do you know the indicators of emotional abuse in a relationship? Where do we draw the line between a benign sarcastic exchange every now and then and behavior that is truly hurtful to one or both spouses? Dr. Michael Hall joins us to examine [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Spotting An Emotionally Destructive Marriage The signs of physical abuse are often easy to recognize, but do you know the indicators of emotional abuse in a relationship? Where do we draw the line between a benign sarcastic exchange every now and then and behavior that is truly hurtful to one or both spouses? Dr. Michael Hall joins us to examine [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Do You Treat Your Spouse Like A Child? Where is the line between a normal concern for your spouse’s well-being, and micr0-managing his or her every decision? Are problems with respect and control solely the fault of the “parent” in the relationship, or do both spouses play a part in creating this kind of dynamic? Dr. Katrina Kuzyszyn-Jones joins us to look at [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Do You Treat Your Spouse Like A Child? Where is the line between a normal concern for your spouse’s well-being, and micr0-managing his or her every decision? Are problems with respect and control solely the fault of the “parent” in the relationship, or do both spouses play a part in creating this kind of dynamic? Dr. Katrina Kuzyszyn-Jones joins us to look at [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Connecting When You’re Expecting With a baby on the way, life can become even more hectic than usual and your relationship with your spouse can be one of the first things to suffer. The physical changes can be hard enough to deal with, but what impact do changes in mood, increased responsibility, and the limelight (or lack thereof for [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Connecting When You’re Expecting With a baby on the way, life can become even more hectic than usual and your relationship with your spouse can be one of the first things to suffer. The physical changes can be hard enough to deal with, but what impact do changes in mood, increased responsibility, and the limelight (or lack thereof for [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Your Fat Spouse Has weight become a “big” issue in your marriage? Is it leading to intimacy problems, control issues, and health concerns that you don’t know how to address?  It’s easy for a marriage to run into trouble when one spouse puts on a significant amount of weight but can be difficult to address in a compassionate and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Your Fat Spouse Has weight become a “big” issue in your marriage? Is it leading to intimacy problems, control issues, and health concerns that you don’t know how to address?  It’s easy for a marriage to run into trouble when one spouse puts on a significant amount of weight but can be difficult to address in a compassionate and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Did I Marry The Right Person? Have you ever asked yourself if your spouse is the right person for you? Do you find that your marriage presents challenges you didn’t expect and wonder if you aren’t as “compatible” with your spouse as you thought? Rabbi Stephen Baars joins us to discuss why we have these feelings, what our expectations of marriage can [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Did I Marry The Right Person? Have you ever asked yourself if your spouse is the right person for you? Do you find that your marriage presents challenges you didn’t expect and wonder if you aren’t as “compatible” with your spouse as you thought? Rabbi Stephen Baars joins us to discuss why we have these feelings, what our expectations of marriage can [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Is Your Spouse Always Wrong? Why is it so easy to blame the problems in your marriage solely on your spouse, but so difficult to examine your own contributions to problems in the relationship? Is it possible to improve the situation with your spouse by changing your own behaviors? Counselor and broadcast personality Carolyn Craft joins us to discuss [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Is Your Spouse Always Wrong? Why is it so easy to blame the problems in your marriage solely on your spouse, but so difficult to examine your own contributions to problems in the relationship? Is it possible to improve the situation with your spouse by changing your own behaviors? Counselor and broadcast personality Carolyn Craft joins us to discuss [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Stand Your Ground Without Fighting Do you find that personality differences between you and your spouse lead to constant arguements? Is your passive or agressive behavior fueling your spouse’s behavior as well? Liza Shaw joins us to discuss the perils of both passive and agressive behavior and how you can be assertive – voicing your opinion without being abrasive and without [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Stand Your Ground Without Fighting Do you find that personality differences between you and your spouse lead to constant arguements? Is your passive or agressive behavior fueling your spouse’s behavior as well? Liza Shaw joins us to discuss the perils of both passive and agressive behavior and how you can be assertive – voicing your opinion without being abrasive and without [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How To Keep Your Spouse When You Lose Your Job Unemployment is taking a toll on more and more families. While some spouses find themselves suddenly without jobs, others are thrust back into the working world in order to keep the family afloat. These kinds of changes are not only traumatic for the individual, but can cause depression and anxiety that put stress on the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Flowers, Trust Me Flowers may be the de facto standard for Valentine’s Day or when you’re in the dog house, but can flowers or a special gift for no reason at all really win you points with your spouse? Ben Buie and Sharon Miller of Lake Boone Florist join us to talk about how to pick the right [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Flowers, Trust Me Flowers may be the de facto standard for Valentine’s Day or when you’re in the dog house, but can flowers or a special gift for no reason at all really win you points with your spouse? Ben Buie and Sharon Miller of Lake Boone Florist join us to talk about how to pick the right [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Do You Still Love Me? Do you feel that your spouse’s lack of appreciation is a sign that he or she is no longer happy with the relationship? Or is your spouse upset with your marriage while you think things are going fine? This dynamic can lead to feelings of betrayal that quickly spiral into much larger problems like suspicion and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Surviving An Affair Affairs or even the suspicion of an affair can drive a huge wedge into a couple’s marriage.  Author Peggy Vaughan joins us in studio to discuss her own experience with her husband’s affair as well as discussing how a married couple can get past the affair on their way to continuing a happy and fulfilling [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Surviving An Affair Affairs or even the suspicion of an affair can drive a huge wedge into a couple’s marriage.  Author Peggy Vaughan joins us in studio to discuss her own experience with her husband’s affair as well as discussing how a married couple can get past the affair on their way to continuing a happy and fulfilling [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Paying for Marriage Counseling Sometimes, the hardest part of getting to marriage counseling is taking care of the cost. Not knowing how counselors bill, or how much counseling will cost can end up putting more pressure on an already strained relationship. Dr. Tina Lepage joins us to discuss what options therapists provide and how to find the therapist that [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Paying for Marriage Counseling Sometimes, the hardest part of getting to marriage counseling is taking care of the cost. Not knowing how counselors bill, or how much counseling will cost can end up putting more pressure on an already strained relationship. Dr. Tina Lepage joins us to discuss what options therapists provide and how to find the therapist that [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sleeping With Your Spouse Is your spouse restless, a snorer, or a night-owl? Do you sleep in separate beds because  you can’t agree on temperature or bedtime? Tina Lepage returns to the show to look at issues that couples face when sleeping in the same bed and the importance of creating a pleasant and relaxing bedtime experience with your spouse. Tina [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sleeping With Your Spouse Is your spouse restless, a snorer, or a night-owl? Do you sleep in separate beds because  you can’t agree on temperature or bedtime? Tina Lepage returns to the show to look at issues that couples face when sleeping in the same bed and the importance of creating a pleasant and relaxing bedtime experience with your spouse. Tina [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Are You Too Dependent on Your Spouse? Is your marriage lopsided? Is one spouse so emotionally dependent on the other that it is causing tension and stress between the two of you? Jennifer Coleman joins us to examine the line between a healthy and unhealthy emotional dependence on your spouse and what you can do to identify and correct dependency issues in [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Are You Too Dependent on Your Spouse? Is your marriage lopsided? Is one spouse so emotionally dependent on the other that it is causing tension and stress between the two of you? Jennifer Coleman joins us to examine the line between a healthy and unhealthy emotional dependence on your spouse and what you can do to identify and correct dependency issues in [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Strengthening Intimacy With Your Spouse Has physical intimacy taken a back seat to other responsibilities in your marriage?  Have you tried rekindling the spark you and your spouse had when you were first married with little success? Terry Northcutt, Director of Marriage Enrichment Programs with the Family Dynamics Institute,  joins us to discuss how to strengthen that intimate bond and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Strengthening Intimacy With Your Spouse Has physical intimacy taken a back seat to other responsibilities in your marriage?  Have you tried rekindling the spark you and your spouse had when you were first married with little success? Terry Northcutt, Director of Marriage Enrichment Programs with the Family Dynamics Institute,  joins us to discuss how to strengthen that intimate bond and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How To Date Your Spouse Do you ever wish you could bring back the excitement and energy you and your spouse had when dating, or have you just accepted that your relationship won’t have the sizzle it did at the beginning? Author Lindsey Rietzsch joins us to talk about why you shouldn’t stop dating your spouse just because you are [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How To Date Your Spouse Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Saturday Night’s Alright For Fighting Do you find yourself in endless fights with your spouse that never seem to resolve anything? Or perhaps you never discussing important issues and just letting them fester. Dr. Colleen Hamilton shares strategies for putting an end to destructive fighting and turning conflict into a process that is both constructive and beneficial to the marriage, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Saturday Night’s Alright For Fighting Do you find yourself in endless fights with your spouse that never seem to resolve anything? Or perhaps you never discussing important issues and just letting them fester. Dr. Colleen Hamilton shares strategies for putting an end to destructive fighting and turning conflict into a process that is both constructive and beneficial to the marriage, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 50 Years – Possible? What’s the secret to a lifelong marriage? Sheryl Kurland, author of “Everlasting Matrimony: Pearls of Wisdom From Couples Married 50 Years Or More”, joins us to share what she learned from the 75 happily married couples she interviewed for her book, and how to put their advice to work in your relationship. You can find out [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 50 Years - Possible? What’s the secret to a lifelong marriage? Sheryl Kurland, author of “Everlasting Matrimony: Pearls of Wisdom From Couples Married 50 Years Or More”, joins us to share what she learned from the 75 happily married couples she interviewed for her book, and how to put their advice to work in your relationship. You can find out [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Family Meetings – Ugh! It would be nice to sit down with everyone for dinner or a discussion, but with everyone’s busy lives, is rounding up the family for some time together even possible? Dr. Kristen Wynns returns to the show to share her tips on working family time into a hectic schedule and discusses the importance of regular [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Family Meetings - Ugh! It would be nice to sit down with everyone for dinner or a discussion, but with everyone’s busy lives, is rounding up the family for some time together even possible? Dr. Kristen Wynns returns to the show to share her tips on working family time into a hectic schedule and discusses the importance of regular [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Romance Writer’s Guide To Marriage Is it possible to add the romantic flare of an epic fantasy to your daily life of work, carpool, and grocery shopping? Are big, gallant gestures always required to make your spouse feel loved, or are the smaller, every-day expressions of care and commitment more important? Romance author Sonja Foust joins us to discuss what she [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Romance Writer’s Guide To Marriage Is it possible to add the romantic flare of an epic fantasy to your daily life of work, carpool, and grocery shopping? Are big, gallant gestures always required to make your spouse feel loved, or are the smaller, every-day expressions of care and commitment more important? Romance author Sonja Foust joins us to discuss what she [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Marriage Money Pit Financial stress can take a toll on even the strongest marriages and in today’s uncertain economic climate, the differences in spending habits between spouses, lack of a family budget, and everyday money issues put us all at risk of a meltdown. Dr. Kim Kimberling joins us to discuss the money mistakes he sees couples making on [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Marriage Money Pit Financial stress can take a toll on even the strongest marriages and in today’s uncertain economic climate, the differences in spending habits between spouses, lack of a family budget, and everyday money issues put us all at risk of a meltdown. Dr. Kim Kimberling joins us to discuss the money mistakes he sees couples making on [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Is Pornography Destroying Your Marriage? What used to require a secret trip to a shady newsstand and the risk of being spotted by a friend or neighbor is now just keyclicks away. With pornography becoming easier to obtain and less of a social stigma, has its presence become a stumbling-block in your relationship? Dr. Nicole Imbraguglio joins us to discuss the patterns and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Is Pornography Destroying Your Marriage? What used to require a secret trip to a shady newsstand and the risk of being spotted by a friend or neighbor is now just keyclicks away. With pornography becoming easier to obtain and less of a social stigma, has its presence become a stumbling-block in your relationship? Dr. Nicole Imbraguglio joins us to discuss the patterns and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website I’m Sorry, Really, I’m Sorry! Apologizing can be a lot more difficult than it seems. Dr. Kristen Wynns joins us to discuss why some of us find it so hard to apologize to our spouses, the impact of always needing to be right on a marriage, why making your spouse believe your apology is for real can be difficult, as [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website I’m Sorry, Really, I’m Sorry! Apologizing can be a lot more difficult than it seems. Dr. Kristen Wynns joins us to discuss why some of us find it so hard to apologize to our spouses, the impact of always needing to be right on a marriage, why making your spouse believe your apology is for real can be difficult, as [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Love Shack: Creating A Bedroom Oasis For Romance Is your bedroom so cluttered or so spartan that relaxation and romance are simply impossible? Most of us are guilty of either filling up the bedroom with junk that won’t fit anywhere else, or treating it like a cold and sterile museum. Jenna Boyd joins us to cover common mistakes in bedroom organization and to share tips [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Love Shack: Creating A Bedroom Oasis For Romance  Is your bedroom so cluttered or so spartan that relaxation and romance are simply impossible? Most of us are guilty of either filling up the bedroom with junk that won’t fit anywhere else, or treating it like a cold and sterile museum. Jenna Boyd joins us to cover common mistakes in bedroom organization and to share tips [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Getting Your Husband To Do What You Want Everyone has incidents where a spouse (either husband or wife) is resistant to cooperation or compromise. What kind of factors lead to this behavior? Do parents, social norms, or other factors have a bigger impact? Dr. Tina Lepage joins us to discuss common issues where husbands and wives have disagreements and how to assess and resolve [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Getting Your Husband To Do What You Want Everyone has incidents where a spouse (either husband or wife) is resistant to cooperation or compromise. What kind of factors lead to this behavior? Do parents, social norms, or other factors have a bigger impact? Dr. Tina Lepage joins us to discuss common issues where husbands and wives have disagreements and how to assess and resolve [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How To Choose a Marriage Counselor Choosing a marriage counselor can be a difficult and sometimes scary task. Where do you find a qualified counselor? Will your insurance cover therapy? How can you be sure that you and your spouse are getting the most out of therapy and that the counselor you have selected is a good fit for your relationship? [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How To Choose a Marriage Counselor Choosing a marriage counselor can be a difficult and sometimes scary task. Where do you find a qualified counselor? Will your insurance cover therapy? How can you be sure that you and your spouse are getting the most out of therapy and that the counselor you have selected is a good fit for your relationship? [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Managing The Monkey Mind Whether it’s picking up the kids, checking email on the blackberry, obsessing over a conversation at work last week, or worrying about what to do for dinner tonight – we’re all trying to do 100 things at once. It’s tempting to stay busy in an effort to feel productive, but what if all of this [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Managing The Monkey Mind Whether it’s picking up the kids, checking email on the blackberry, obsessing over a conversation at work last week, or worrying about what to do for dinner tonight - we’re all trying to do 100 things at once. It’s tempting to stay busy in an effort to feel productive, but what if all of this [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Make Valentine’s Day Special Click here to view the embedded video. We would like to thank you for listening to our show every week and wish you all a very happy Valentine’s Day. It’s rare that we have more than a few quick minutes in a day to really communicate with our spouses, but it’s important to take every opportunity [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Make Valentine’s Day Special Click here to view the embedded video. We would like to thank you for listening to our show every week and wish you all a very happy Valentine’s Day. It’s rare that we have more than a few quick minutes in a day to really communicate with our spouses, but it’s important to take every opportunity [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tending An Empty Nest Sometimes, a couple can’t wait to get the kids out of the house, but in other circumstances, when the children leave, feelings of loneliness can be amplified and there aren’t other family members around to serve as a distraction from other issues that are affecting a marriage. Susan Orenstein, Ph.D. joins us to discuss the positive and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tending An Empty Nest Sometimes, a couple can’t wait to get the kids out of the house, but in other circumstances, when the children leave, feelings of loneliness can be amplified and there aren’t other family members around to serve as a distraction from other issues that are affecting a marriage. Susan Orenstein, Ph.D. joins us to discuss the positive and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Arranging Your Space to Improve Your Marriage Is your living space having a negative impact on your relationship? Many couples would not think that the home environment itself can have an effect on marital bliss, but Jenna Boyd and Susan Orenstein, Ph.D. join us to discuss how clutter, color, and emotional distractions can create stress and tension that robs your marriage of [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Arranging Your Space to Improve Your Marriage Is your living space having a negative impact on your relationship? Many couples would not think that the home environment itself can have an effect on marital bliss, but Jenna Boyd and Susan Orenstein, Ph.D. join us to discuss how clutter, color, and emotional distractions can create stress and tension that robs your marriage of [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sexual Incompatibility Every marriage faces issues where one or both partners feel frustrated with the level of intimacy in the relationship, but these incompatibility problems can create bigger difficulties when spouses feel like they can’t bring up the topic with their partners. Dr. Katrina Kuzyszyn joins us to discuss how you can bring up issues of sexual [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sexual Incompatibility Every marriage faces issues where one or both partners feel frustrated with the level of intimacy in the relationship, but these incompatibility problems can create bigger difficulties when spouses feel like they can’t bring up the topic with their partners. Dr. Katrina Kuzyszyn joins us to discuss how you can bring up issues of sexual [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Put Yourself First To Stay Married It’s tough not to be busy these days, but can over-extending yourself and not placing enough importance on your own needs be detrimental to your marriage? Dr. Pat Hogan joins us to discuss how putting all of your focus on others, including your spouse, can actually make you emotionally unavailable for your partner. Neglecting your [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Put Yourself First To Stay Married It’s tough not to be busy these days, but can over-extending yourself and not placing enough importance on your own needs be detrimental to your marriage? Dr. Pat Hogan joins us to discuss how putting all of your focus on others, including your spouse, can actually make you emotionally unavailable for your partner. Neglecting your [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Indecision: It Can Kill Your Marriage Making big (or even small) decisions can often be tough – the responsibility and conflict it can bring are issues that can’t be taken lightly, but living in a perpetual state of “maybe” can harm both you and your relationship. Dr. Stephen Frueh joins us to discuss the importance of knowing the “yes”s and “no”s [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Indecision: It Can Kill Your Marriage Making big (or even small) decisions can often be tough - the responsibility and conflict it can bring are issues that can’t be taken lightly, but living in a perpetual state of “maybe” can harm both you and your relationship. Dr. Stephen Frueh joins us to discuss the importance of knowing the “yes”s and “no”s [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Assume Love, Not War Do you find youself immediately jumping to the conclusion that everything your spouse does is meant to upset you? Patty Newbold joins us to discuss how assuming that your spouse is acting out of love can prevent countless marital problems and give you a healthier perspective on your relationship. Patty also covers how prone we are [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Assume Love, Not War Do you find youself immediately jumping to the conclusion that everything your spouse does is meant to upset you? Patty Newbold joins us to discuss how assuming that your spouse is acting out of love can prevent countless marital problems and give you a healthier perspective on your relationship. Patty also covers how prone we are [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The 4 Step Relationship Review Married life can be hectic - are you taking time to cover the nuts and bolts of your relationship on a regular basis? Cory Huff from AGoodHusband.net and HusbandsAndDads.com joins us to talk about a weekly 4 Step Relationship Review that he has implemented in his marriage and the impact it has had on his relationship. Cory discusses [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Be a Great Parent Without Becoming a Lousy Spouse Parenting can be tough and sometimes all your hard work can come at the expense of your spouse. It’s easy to neglect each other when you’re focusing on the children - the key is to save some of the focus for both of you. Rabbi Stephen Baars has been counseling couples on their marriages for [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Be a Great Parent Without Becoming a Lousy Spouse Parenting can be tough and sometimes all your hard work can come at the expense of your spouse. It’s easy to neglect each other when you’re focusing on the children – the key is to save some of the focus for both of you. Rabbi Stephen Baars has been counseling couples on their marriages for [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Helping Your Spouse and Yourself Fight Depression Are the feelings of irritability, withdrawal, and tiredness that you or your spouse are feeling just temporary, or signs of a bigger problem? Dr. Nicole Imbraguglio joins us to discuss how easy it can be to let depression go unnoticed and the toll that depression can have on children, the other spouse, and the entire marriage. Dr. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Helping Your Spouse and Yourself Fight Depression Are the feelings of irritability, withdrawal, and tiredness that you or your spouse are feeling just temporary, or signs of a bigger problem? Dr. Nicole Imbraguglio joins us to discuss how easy it can be to let depression go unnoticed and the toll that depression can have on children, the other spouse, and the entire marriage. Dr. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Marriage Counselor Goes to Marriage Counseling What makes a marriage counselor decide to go in for counseling? Jennifer Coleman is a Life Transition Coach with Rosen Law Firm who has worked as a marriage counselor as well and joins us to talk about her experience visiting a marriage therapist with her husband. Jennifer discusses how she and her husband decided on [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Marriage Counselor Goes to Marriage Counseling What makes a marriage counselor decide to go in for counseling? Jennifer Coleman is a Life Transition Coach with Rosen Law Firm who has worked as a marriage counselor as well and joins us to talk about her experience visiting a marriage therapist with her husband. Jennifer discusses how she and her husband decided on [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Are the Holidays Stressing Your Marriage? Does the upcoming holiday season leave you feeling more anxious than thankful? Dealing with families, money concerns and more can be very overwhelming. How do you juggle everything without losing your head? Is it even possible? Dr. Kim Kimberling joins us to share some helpful tips on keeping yourself and your spouse sane during the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Are the Holidays Stressing Your Marriage? Does the upcoming holiday season leave you feeling more anxious than thankful? Dealing with families, money concerns and more can be very overwhelming. How do you juggle everything without losing your head? Is it even possible? Dr. Kim Kimberling joins us to share some helpful tips on keeping yourself and your spouse sane during the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Coping With the Fallout of Post-Traumatic Stress Are issues of past trauma or present anxiety causing conflict in your relationship? �Whether it comes from obvious sources, like military deployment and sexual abuse, or is a side effect of more subtle traumas like put-downs, verbal abuse and neglect, the deep-seated anxiety and stress related issues can manifest themselves as problems with communication and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Coping With the Fallout of Post-Traumatic Stress Are issues of past trauma or present anxiety causing conflict in your relationship?  Whether it comes from obvious sources, like military deployment and sexual abuse, or is a side effect of more subtle traumas like put-downs, verbal abuse and neglect, the deep-seated anxiety and stress related issues can manifest themselves as problems with communication and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Does Hypnosis Have a Place in Your Marriage? Can hypnosis really help your marriage? It may come as a surprise to some, but the answer is yes. The use of hypnosis is a technique that allows you to reveal your inner thoughts and make significant progress in your relationship and your life. Dr. Kathleen Connolly joins us and reveals how hypnosis really works and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Does Hypnosis Have a Place in Your Marriage? Can hypnosis really help your marriage? It may come as a surprise to some, but the answer is yes. The use of hypnosis is a technique that allows you to reveal your inner thoughts and make significant progress in your relationship and your life.�Dr. Kathleen Connolly joins us and reveals how hypnosis really works and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The 7 Benefits of Marriage For Men It’s always nice to be reminded that you’ve made a good decision, and being married and involved in your child’s life are two of the greatest decisions you can make. Roland Warren, President of the National Fatherhood Initiative joins us to discuss the NFI’s popular brochure, The 7 Benefits of Marriage For Men. Roland covers [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The 7 Benefits of Marriage For Men It’s always nice to be reminded that you’ve made a good decision, and being married and involved in your child’s life are two of the greatest decisions you can make. Roland Warren, President of the National Fatherhood Initiative joins us to discuss the NFI’s popular brochure, The 7 Benefits of Marriage For Men. Roland covers [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Intimacy Retreats Can a weekend getaway really help your marriage? Does counseling with other couples have benefits over a more traditional approach? Richard and Diana Daffner join us to discuss their “Intimacy Retreats”, where couples take a weekend to focus exclusively on the intimate bond with each other and cover the key differences between traditional therapy and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Intimacy Retreats Can a weekend getaway really help your marriage? Does counseling with other couples have benefits over a more traditional approach? Richard and Diana Daffner join us to discuss their “Intimacy Retreats”, where couples take a weekend to focus exclusively on the intimate bond with each other and cover the key differences between traditional therapy and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Is your procrastinating spouse hurting your marriage? We’ve all procrastinated at some point, but when avoiding important issues becomes a compulsion, it can have negative effects on your relationship.  Dr. Gloria Arenson joins us to talk about her latest book, Procrastination Nation, and discusses the serious consequences that arise when spouses avoid completing tasks – a behavior often motivated my fear. Gloria is a psychotherapist, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Is your procrastinating spouse hurting your marriage? We’ve all procrastinated at some point, but when avoiding important issues becomes a compulsion, it can have negative effects on your relationship.� Dr. Gloria Arenson joins us to talk about her latest book, Procrastination Nation, and discusses the serious�consequences�that arise when spouses avoid completing tasks - a behavior often motivated my fear. Gloria is a psychotherapist, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Avoiding Infidelity It’s always better to stop a problem before it begins than trying to fix it after the fact.  Dr. Betty Phillips joins us to discuss some of the underlying causes of marital infidelity and why problems couples have that may seem trivial or unrelated to the relationship can lead to affairs.  Dr. Phillips also takes [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Avoiding Infidelity It’s always better to stop a problem before it begins than trying to fix it after the fact. �Dr. Betty Phillips joins us to discuss some of the underlying causes of marital infidelity and why problems couples have that may seem trivial or unrelated to the relationship can lead to affairs. �Dr. Phillips also takes [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Commuter Marriage Keeping your marriage healthy takes a lot of work under the best of circumstances. �Tina Tessina, a.k.a. “Dr. Romance”, joins us to talk about her latest book, The Commuter Marriage and discusses what steps couples can take when one spouse is away for days or weeks at a time. Work assignments, better paying jobs, and military [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "The Commuter Marriage", url: "http://stayhappilymarried.com/2008/10/06/the-commuter-marriage/" }); Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Commuter Marriage Keeping your marriage healthy takes a lot of work under the best of circumstances.  Tina Tessina, a.k.a. “Dr. Romance”, joins us to talk about her latest book, The Commuter Marriage and discusses what steps couples can take when one spouse is away for days or weeks at a time. Work assignments, better paying jobs, and military [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Treat Your Marriage Like Your Teeth! By�Betty Phillips Now what kind of whacked-out title is this? �Is Phillips off her rocker? �Well, just think about it. �We’re told to pay daily attention to our dental health, brush and floss each night and seek professional assessment with dental checkups every six months. �When a dental problem is discovered we invest immediately in corrective [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Treat Your Marriage Like Your Teeth!", url: "http://stayhappilymarried.com/2008/09/29/treat-your-marriage- ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Treat Your Marriage Like Your Teeth! By Betty Phillips Now what kind of whacked-out title is this?  Is Phillips off her rocker?  Well, just think about it.  We’re told to pay daily attention to our dental health, brush and floss each night and seek professional assessment with dental checkups every six months.  When a dental problem is discovered we invest immediately in corrective [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Adoption and Marriage Children add a new dynamic to every marriage, and adopting can bring challenges and rewards all its own. �Parker Herring, an adoption attorney in Raleigh, NC, talks about the adoption process, what to expect, and what part adoption can play in marriage. Parker also discusses her own experience with the adoption of her children, and what [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Adoption and Marriage", url: "http://stayhappilymarried.com/2008/09/23/adoption-and-marriage/" }); Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Adoption and Marriage Children add a new dynamic to every marriage, and adopting can bring challenges and rewards all its own.  Parker Herring, an adoption attorney in Raleigh, NC, talks about the adoption process, what to expect, and what part adoption can play in marriage. Parker also discusses her own experience with the adoption of her children, and what [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The 10 Best Decisions a Couple Can Make Bill and Pam Farrel join us to talk about their book, The 10 Best Decisions a Couple Can Make, and explain the importance of emotions and communication in making decisions for the good of your relationship. The Farrels also discuss the importance of keeping a positive outlook regardless of the challenges your relationship faces, as well [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "The 10 Best Decisions a Couple Can Make", url: "http://stayhappilymarried.com/2008/09/15/the-10-best-decisions-a-couple-ca ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The 10 Best Decisions a Couple Can Make Bill and Pam Farrel join us to talk about their book, The 10 Best Decisions a Couple Can Make, and explain the importance of emotions and communication in making decisions for the good of your relationship. The Farrels also discuss the importance of keeping a positive outlook regardless of the challenges your relationship faces, as well [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website September Songs �Author and researcher Maggie Scarf joins us to discuss her latest book, September Songs: The Good News About Marriage in the Later Years. �In the book, Maggie examines the “Bonus Years”, or 20+ years after 50 that increased life expectancy has created in the past few generations, and takes a look at how marital satisfaction [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "September Songs", url: "http://stayhappilymarried.com/2008/09/08/september-songs/" }); Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website September Songs Author and researcher Maggie Scarf joins us to discuss her latest book, September Songs: The Good News About Marriage in the Later Years.  In the book, Maggie examines the “Bonus Years”, or 20+ years after 50 that increased life expectancy has created in the past few generations, and takes a look at how marital satisfaction [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Your First Visit Does the idea of visiting a marriage counselor seem like admitting a problem in your relationship, or do you just find the whole experience intimidating? Licenced therapist Sonyia Richardson joins us to put your fears to rest by walking through a first visit and covering the benefits of counseling to both couples who are [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Your First Visit", url: "http://stayhappilymarried.com/2008/09/01/your-first-visit/" }); Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Your First Visit Does the idea of visiting a marriage counselor seem like admitting a problem in your relationship, or do you just find the whole experience intimidating? Licenced therapist Sonyia Richardson joins us to put your fears to rest by walking through a first visit and covering the benefits of counseling to both couples who are [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fighting Fairly The openness of marriage is an opportunity for a great deal of trust, but can also result in your most personal information used against you in heated arguements. Dr. Katrina Kuzsyzyn-Jones discusses the effects of using intimate knowledge in fights with your spouse and offers tips for fighting constructively, without personal attacks. Katrina holds a [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Fighting Fairly", url: "http://stayhappilymarried.com/2008/08/25/fighting-fairly/" }); Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fighting Fairly The openness of marriage is an opportunity for a great deal of trust, but can also result in your most personal information used against you in heated arguements. Dr. Katrina Kuzsyzyn-Jones discusses the effects of using intimate knowledge in fights with your spouse and offers tips for fighting constructively, without personal attacks. Katrina holds a [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dealing Lovingly With Disapointment Every marriage has ups and downs, but it can sometimes be difficult to make sure that the inevitable disappointments don’t grow into larger problems and adversely affect a couple’s relationship. Dr. Steevie Jane Parks takes time to discuss some common events that lead to disappointment in a marriage and how each spouse reacts, as [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Dealing Lovingly With Disapointment", url: "http://stayhappilymarried.com/2008/08/18/dealing-lovingly-with-disapoint ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dealing Lovingly With Disapointment Every marriage has ups and downs, but it can sometimes be difficult to make sure that the inevitable disappointments don’t grow into larger problems and adversely affect a couple’s relationship. Dr. Steevie Jane Parks takes time to discuss some common events that lead to disappointment in a marriage and how each spouse reacts, as [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Coping With Your Child�s Behavioral and Emotional Issues Children can place stress on any marriage, and when kids are dealing with behavioral or emotional problems, it can often be even more trying on the parents. Dr. Kristen Wynns returns to discuss some of the differences between chronic problems and those that are a natural part of development, as well as what parents [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Coping With Your Child’s Behavioral and Emotional Issues", url: "http://stayhappilymarried.com/2008/08/11/coping-with-your-childs-behavio ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Coping With Your Child’s Behavioral and Emotional Issues Children can place stress on any marriage, and when kids are dealing with behavioral or emotional problems, it can often be even more trying on the parents. Dr. Kristen Wynns returns to discuss some of the differences between chronic problems and those that are a natural part of development, as well as what parents [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Effects of Marital Conflict on Your Kids Is conflict in your marriage taking a toll on your children? Even if the arguments take place behind closed doors, they can still impact your kids. Dr. Kristen Wynns discusses some tactics parents often use without realizing the effects and how parents can resolve conflicts in a constructive manner that provides a positive [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "The Effects of Marital Conflict on Your Kids", url: "http://stayhappilymarried.com/2008/08/04/the-effects-of-marital-conflict-on-your- ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Effects of Marital Conflict on Your Kids Is conflict in your marriage taking a toll on your children? Even if the arguments take place behind closed doors, they can still impact your kids. Dr. Kristen Wynns discusses some tactics parents often use without realizing the effects and how parents can resolve conflicts in a constructive manner that provides a positive [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website SHM Encore: Battling Substance Abuse We will return with new episodes next week. Please enjoy this popular episode with guest Erin Langdon. Substance abuse is a problem that affects many families in the U.S. In this podcast, Erin Langdon, a Licensed Practicing Clinician and Clinicial Addictions Specialist, discusses substance abuse and its affect on a marriage. She also gives tips [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "SHM Encore: Battling Substance Abuse", url: "http://stayhappilymarried.com/2008/07/28/shm-encore-battling-substa ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website SHM Encore: Battling Substance Abuse We will return with new episodes next week. Please enjoy this popular episode with guest Erin Langdon. Substance abuse is a problem that affects many families in the U.S. In this podcast, Erin Langdon, a Licensed Practicing Clinician and Clinicial Addictions Specialist, discusses substance abuse and its affect on a marriage. She also gives tips [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website SHM Encore: Building an Us Have you built an “Us” in your marriage? In this podcast, Lesli Doares, LMFT, discusses the concept of building an “Us,” for married couples. Doares gives a list of steps to follow for the most crucial transition in your marriage. Lesli�s practice in Cary, North Carolina, Balanced Family Therapy, focuses on helping couples build strong, secure relationships. [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "SHM Encore: Building an Us", url: "http://stayhappilymarried.com/2008/07/21/ ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website SHM Encore: Building an Us Have you built an “Us” in your marriage? In this podcast, Lesli Doares, LMFT, discusses the concept of building an “Us,” for married couples. Doares gives a list of steps to follow for the most crucial transition in your marriage. Lesli’s practice in Cary, North Carolina, Balanced Family Therapy, focuses on helping couples build strong, secure relationships. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Marriage Counseling: For Us? By Betty Phillips Why do people think twice about calling a marriage counselor when they don’t hesitate to call other specialists for professional services? Tax advisers, interior designers, home inspectors, doctors, dentists, all stand ready to provide advice and consultation services when requested. There’s no need for any admission of failure when you call a tax [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Another Happy Year Anniversaries are wonderful, but it’s easy to fall into the “flowers and dinner once a year” routine. Dr. Susan Orenstein returns to discuss what anniversaries mean in the context of marriage, and how they can be fantastic tools for appreciating your spouse improving your relationship. She explores the little things spouses can do to make [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Another Happy Year", url: "http://stayhappilymarried.com/2008/07/07/another-happy-year/" }); Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Another Happy Year Anniversaries are wonderful, but it’s easy to fall into the “flowers and dinner once a year” routine. Dr. Susan Orenstein returns to discuss what anniversaries mean in the context of marriage, and how they can be fantastic tools for appreciating your spouse improving your relationship. She explores the little things spouses can do to make [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How to Argue and Stay Married! By Betty Phillips After the honeymoon, when you realize that 50% of all marriages actually do end in divorce, marriage partners begin to realize the enormity of the tasks involved in staying happily married. Positive conflict management becomes a high priority in keeping marriages together. All couples argue, even in successful marriages, but happily married partners [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Teaming Up to Conquer Your Finances Are finances an open book in your marriage, or is money a taboo subject? Financial Advisor Bob Watral takes a look at how money can bring out the best and the worst in people and what you can do to ensure that finances don’t create a rift between you and your spouse. Many [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Teaming Up to Conquer Your Finances", url: "http://stayhappilymarried.com/2008/06/23/teaming-up-to-conquer-your-finances/" }); Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Teaming Up to Conquer Your Finances Are finances an open book in your marriage, or is money a taboo subject? Financial Advisor Bob Watral takes a look at how money can bring out the best and the worst in people and what you can do to ensure that finances don’t create a rift between you and your spouse. Many [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Emotional Vs. Sexual Intimacy Worried that your spouse cannot satisfy you intimately? In this episode Dr. Debbie Neel returns (her previous visit can be found here) to discuss the differences of emotional intimacy and sexual intimacy, saying that integrating them allows for a strong, satisfied marriage. Emotional intimacy is the understanding, appreciation, and acceptance between mates: the �I love [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Emotional Vs. Sexual Intimacy", url: "http://stayhappilymarried.com/2008/06/16/emotional- ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Emotional Vs. Sexual Intimacy Worried that your spouse cannot satisfy you intimately? In this episode Dr. Debbie Neel returns (her previous visit can be found here) to discuss the differences of emotional intimacy and sexual intimacy, saying that integrating them allows for a strong, satisfied marriage. Emotional intimacy is the understanding, appreciation, and acceptance between mates: the ‘I love [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Happy Father�s Day Happy Father�s Day! Dr. Susan Orenstein discusses the importance of the father�s role in a successful marriage and happy family, which has changed from being the distant, work-oriented bread winner to being a nurturing caregiver with greater participation in his children�s activities and lives. Dr. Orenstein debunks many myths about marriage and fatherhood which have [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Happy Father’s Day", url: "http://stayhappilymarried.com/2008/06/06/happy-fathers-day ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Happy Father’s Day Happy Father’s Day! Dr. Susan Orenstein discusses the importance of the father’s role in a successful marriage and happy family, which has changed from being the distant, work-oriented bread winner to being a nurturing caregiver with greater participation in his children’s activities and lives. Dr. Orenstein debunks many myths about marriage and fatherhood which have [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hump: True Tales of Sex After Kids “Hump: True Tales of Sex After Kids” takes a look at restoring the intimate bond between spouses after the changes in life that take place once children enter the picture. Author Kimberly Ford discusses the book and what prompted her to write it, as well as what she learned in the process. The [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Hump: True Tales of Sex After Kids", url: "http://stayhappilymarried.com/2008/06/02/hump-true-tales-of-sex-after-kids/" }); Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hump: True Tales of Sex After Kids “Hump: True Tales of Sex After Kids” takes a look at restoring the intimate bond between spouses after the changes in life that take place once children enter the picture. Author Kimberly Ford discusses the book and what prompted her to write it, as well as what she learned in the process. The [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website This Old Spouse: Tips and Tools for Keeping the Honeymoon Glow Why are we quick to repair a clog in the kitchen sink, but let problems in our relationship pile up without fixing them? In this episode, Sharyn Wolf discusses her book “This Old Spouse: Tips and Tools for Keeping the Honeymoon Glow”, and how relating issues with your spouse to issues with your house [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "This Old Spouse: Tips and Tools for Keeping the Honeymoon Glow", url: "http://stayhappilymarried.com/2008/05/27/this-old-spouse-tips-and-tools-for ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website This Old Spouse: Tips and Tools for Keeping the Honeymoon Glow Why are we quick to repair a clog in the kitchen sink, but let problems in our relationship pile up without fixing them? In this episode, Sharyn Wolf discusses her book “This Old Spouse: Tips and Tools for Keeping the Honeymoon Glow”, and how relating issues with your spouse to issues with your house [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Maturing of Love and Desire Do changes in desire for your spouse mean that you are no longer in love? Debbie Neel, PhD. discusses how intimacy and desire mature over the course of a marriage and how to understand and enjoy a deeper relationship with your spouse. Physiological and hormonal changes that occur throughout a marriage may often [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "The Maturing of Love and Desire", url: "http://stayhappilymarried.com/2008/05/19/the-maturing-of-love-and-desire/" }); Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Maturing of Love and Desire Do changes in desire for your spouse mean that you are no longer in love? Debbie Neel, PhD. discusses how intimacy and desire mature over the course of a marriage and how to understand and enjoy a deeper relationship with your spouse. Physiological and hormonal changes that occur throughout a marriage may often [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Creating More Intimacy It can be difficult to make an intimate relationship with your spouse a priority when a few years of work, kids, and other day-to-day responsibilities have crept in to your lives. When communication breaks down, the temptation to seek fulfillment outside of the marriage becomes much greater. Sherri Hughes, Certified Life Coach, Reiki [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Creating More Intimacy", url: "http://stayhappilymarried.com/2008/05/12/creating-more-intimacy/" }); Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Creating More Intimacy It can be difficult to make an intimate relationship with your spouse a priority when a few years of work, kids, and other day-to-day responsibilities have crept in to your lives. When communication breaks down, the temptation to seek fulfillment outside of the marriage becomes much greater. Sherri Hughes, Certified Life Coach, Reiki [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website What I Learned About Marriage From Being a Divorce Coach Hindsight is 20/20, but sometimes we can learn from the mistakes of others and avoid problems ourselves. Host Lee Rosen and guest Jennifer Coleman, a divorce coach with the Rosen Law Firm, discuss Jennifer’s experience in what she has learned about keeping a relationship strong by examining where others have fallen apart. This episode touches [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "What I Learned About Marriage From Being a Divorce Coach", url: "http://stayhappilymarried.com/2008/05/05/wha ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website What I Learned About Marriage From Being a Divorce Coach Hindsight is 20/20, but sometimes we can learn from the mistakes of others and avoid problems ourselves. Host Lee Rosen and guest Jennifer Coleman, a divorce coach with the Rosen Law Firm, discuss Jennifer’s experience in what she has learned about keeping a relationship strong by examining where others have fallen apart. This episode touches [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Coping with an illness in your marriage A serious illness puts incredible stress on even the strongest relationship. This week’s guest, David Garver LMFT, and host Lee Rosen discuss the emotional and psychological impact of an illness on both the well and the ill spouse, and touch on how these events can affect previous issues in the relationship, as well as [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Coping with an illness in your marriage", url: "http://stayhappilymarried.com/2008/04/28/coping-with-an-illness-in-your-marriage/" }) ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Coping with an illness in your marriage A serious illness puts incredible stress on even the strongest relationship. This week’s guest, David Garver LMFT, and host Lee Rosen discuss the emotional and psychological impact of an illness on both the well and the ill spouse, and touch on how these events can affect previous issues in the relationship, as well as [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Achieving Balance: Individual Vs. Couple Many of us know couples who seem to have lost their own identities after they began dating. But what kind of problems can this cause in a long-term relationship or marriage? This week, Dr. Dan Ryan analyzes the “Popeye defense” and gives tips for how to achieve balance in your relationship by being an individual [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Achieving Balance: Individual Vs. Couple Many of us know couples who seem to have lost their own identities after they began dating. But what kind of problems can this cause in a long-term relationship or marriage? This week, Dr. Dan Ryan analyzes the “Popeye defense” and gives tips for how to achieve balance in your relationship by being an individual [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website After an Affair Infidelity. Distrust. Anger. Heartbreak. 25% of men and 15% of women will have an extramarital affair. An affair can end any marriage. But, it doesn’t have to. In this episode, Carmella Broome, a Licensed Professional Counselor with Crossroads Counseling Center in Lexington, South Carolina, talks about how couples can repair their marriage post-affair. Be sure [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website When Your Spouse Has a Problem with Substance Abuse Substance abuse is a problem that affects many families in the U.S. In this podcast, Erin Langdon, a Licensed Practicing Clinician and Clinicial Addictions Specialist, discusses substance abuse and its affect on a marriage. She also gives tips for how to deal with your spouse’s problem with substance abuse and the recovery process. Erin [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Relocation – When a Family has to Move Moving is one of the most stressful situations one can endure. It is not surprising that many couples decide to divorce shortly after relocating. There are a multitude of unforeseen problems and frustrations that come with the process of moving your life. Whether is it across town or across the country, it [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Stay Happily Married With Children, Part II No two people are raised alike and this can cause big issues for couples with differing parenting styles. In this podcast, Dr. Tina Lepage discusses how to sort out the problems that come with trying to negotiate with your spouse over how to raise the children. Dr. Tina Lepage is the founder of Lepage Associates, a [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Stay Happily Married with Children Having children can certainly impose challenges on your marriage. Couples with children face the test of time… not enough time in the day, that is. In this podcast, Dr. Tina Lepage discusses how to manage the burden of time management with children. Dr. Tina Lepage is the founder of Lepage Associates, a full-service psychology [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Who’s Taking the Initiative? Do you often find yourself fighting with your spouse over who takes initiative in the relationship? Are you unsure as to what type of “initiative” your partner is seeking? In this podcast, Dr. Tina Lepage discusses the underlying feelings that fuel these disagreements and outlines steps to take for the road to recovery. Dr. Tina Lepage [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Valentine’s Day Podcast – Stay Married for Another Year Valentine’s Day is coming up fast. Love is on the line. Don’t blow it! Listen to this podcast. In 20 minutes you will learn what you need to know to make this the best Valentine’s Day ever. 10 successful marriage counselors share their top tips for how to stay happily married on Valentine’s Day. Don’t leave [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Valentine�s Day - Stay married for another year Valentine’s Day is coming up fast. Love is on the line. Don’t blow it! Ten of the Nation’s top Marriage Counselors share their top tips for how to stay happily married on Valentine’s Day. Don’t leave anything to chance - listen to this podcast - twice. Our experts include - Sandra Dopf, Certified Master Level Life Coach Jennifer [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Introducing the podcast Lee Rosen and Jennifer Griffin introduce the podcast and provide some insight regarding future episodes. Click below to play the show: Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Introducing the podcast Lee Rosen and Jennifer Griffin introduce the podcast and provide some insight regarding future episodes. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website