Marriage Skills

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Podcasts

• Addressing Relationship Energy Drainers

  This lesson will teach you to recognize immediately when your energy is being drained and what you can do about it.

• Dealing With Our Baggage

  Learn how your past can help you determine today’s vision, purpose, needs, and wants for your relationship.

Articles

• Communication/Conflict

  • A Game Plan for Effective Communication

    Learn effective communication skills that help couples navigate through difficult topics.

  • Avoiding Communication Fouls

    Learn how communication fouls become about winning an argument instead of finding a mutually favorable resolution.

  • Fighting in a Way That's Fair

    All relationships encounter disagreements. It’s how those disagreements are handled that is the key to the health of the relationship.

  • Listening is Not a Spectator Sport - Rules for Active Listening

    Learn how listening, though a silent act, is still an active part of communication.

  • Saying You're Sorry

    Saying you're sorry can be difficult at times, TwoOfUs.org lets you know how to make it easier.

  • Start Soft When You Want To Be Heard

    Learn how starting softly will increase the chances of resolving the problem and finding a mutual solution.

  Healthy Relationship Skills

  • 10 Simple Ways to Make a Marriage Last

    The fundamental rules for human interaction—kindness, fairness and respect—are taught to us as children. Unfortunately, many of these lessons are forgotten by the time we reach adulthood.

  • 50 Quick Connects for Couples

    Small emotional connections between partners can add up to big time relationship satisfaction.

  • Learning Languages of Love in Marriage

    Learn how to customize our messages of love to fit our partner's preferences.

  • Love Rules

    Here is what relationships experts think about the tried, but not always true, love sayings.

  • Must the Truth Hurt? Honesty and Relationships

    Everyone says the truth hurts but does it really have to?

  • The Art of Compromise

    Being uncompromising on ethical matters makes you a strong person. Being uncompromising in an intimate relationship, however, is often less noble.

  • Why Forgiveness is Good … for You

    Too often, we see forgiveness solely as an (undeserved) kindness we extend to an oppressor. But forgiveness is also a gift we give ourselves—a gift that provides considerable physical and psychological benefits to the giver.

  • Your Relationship: Healthy or Unhealthy?

    When you think about your current relationship, how do you feel? Do you remember good times together and dream about your future?

Videos

• Actor Hill Harper Starts ‘The Conversation’

  In this video, award-winning actor and best-selling author Hill Harper (CSI: NY) tackles misconceptions about marriage, men and family … and how to strengthen relationships between black men and women.

• Budgeting together: Where to start

  In this video, Drs. Les and Leslie Parrott talk about how couples can work together to effectively budget their finances.

• Creating a Plan B in case of job loss

  In this video, Drs. Les and Leslie Parrott give advice on surviving a career crisis.

• How can I tell if my partner is really committed to me?

  In this video, Dr. Scott Stanley talks about how you can tell if your partner is really committed to you.

• How can we avoid infidelity in our relationship?

  In this video, Dr. Barry McCarthy talks about how to avoid temptations within our relationships.

• How can we make our marriage stronger?

  In this video, Dr. Rozario Slack explores ways to strengthen your marriage.

• How do I tell my partner I want to work on improving our relationship?

  In this video, relationship expert Nisa Muhammad responds to the question, "How do I tell my partner I want to work on improving our relationship?".

• How do I tell my partner I want to work on repairing our relationship?

  How do I tell my partner I want to work on repairing our relationship?

• How to argue correctly

  This video highlights some techniques that couples can utilize to communicate and argue more effectively.

• Socking money away for a rainy day

  This video talks about different ways in which couples can work together to save money.