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.

• Emotional Mastery: The Secret to Incredible Relating

  This audio file explains how to become the master of your emotions and how emotional mastery enhances relationships.

• How to Improve Your Marriage Without Talking About It

  In this program learn that love is not about better communication but better connection.

• Sharing Our Vision

  This podcast provides information into what vision is and why it is important to our relationships.

Articles

• And They Lived Happily Ever After?

  Ten myths about marriage that can keep you from experiencing a true "happily ever after."

• How to Know if You Have a Healthy Marriage

  Find out if your marriage is strong ... or in need of some repair.

• Reconnecting with Your Spouse after the Kids Leave

  The kids are gone, and now it's just you and your spouse. You've been married for years, but it's been a while since the two of you had some one-on-one time and you're feeling a bit distant.

• Supporting Your Spouse's Resolutions

  Whether resolving to quit smoking, lose weight or spend more quality time with your family, it is just as important for you to support the resolutions that your spouse makes as it is to try to fulfill your own.

• Building a Love That Lasts

  • Is Marriage a Bad Bet?

    With the high rate of divorce in the United States some people question the concept of marriage.

  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.

  • Communicating with the Opposite Sex

    The opposite gender speaks an alien tongue. Or so it would seem.

  • Cracking the Male Code of Silence

    Breaking through male reserve to communicate more effectively as a couple.

  • 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.

  • Silence is Not Golden

    The rule "silence is golden" doesn't apply when referring to your relationship. How to cope with the silent treatment.

  • 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.

  Dating Tips & Etiquette

  • PDA: How Much is Too Much?

    Public displays of affection can be a good way to let your significant other feel loved, but when is it too much?

  Engagement and Preparing for Marriage

  • Making a Home Together

    Tips for how to make your new house a home.

  Family Challenges

  • How Much Time is Your Own With a Wife and Kids at Home

    You used to do what you wanted when you wanted. Once you have a family, though, the question of "me" time gets more challenging....

  Finances

  • How to Confront Your Partner’s Poor Spending Habits

    Confronting your partners spending and financial habits can be difficult, TwoOfUs.org will help couples explore this issue.

  Healthy Relationship Skills

  • 5 Ways to Find Time for Your Spouse

    The demands of parenthood can make maintaining a close, romantic relationship a challenge. Here are some ways to keep your marriage and romance strong.

  • 50 Quick Connects for Couples

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

  • Can Simply Being Positive Improve Your Relationship?

    Simply being positive can dramatically improve your relationship.

  • Don’t Blame Twitter—How TMI Can Kill Any Relationship

    Oversharing online can have a devastating impact your relationships. Here are some old relationship rules, revamped for new media.

  • How Emotional Intelligence Affects Your Relationships

    If you are looking to improve your relationship, assessing your emotional intelligence could help.

  • 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.

  • Managing Expectations, Minimizing Disappointment

    Learn how to manage your expectations and maximize the positive in your relationship.

  • Must the Truth Hurt? Honesty and Relationships

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

  • Personal Boundaries in a Relationship

    Good fences make good neighbors. Good boundaries make good relationships.

  • Qualities of a Healthy Relationship

    Learn to recognize the qualities of a healthy relationship.

  • 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.

  • Understanding Your Man’s Emotional Needs

    Tips for providing your male partner the emotional support he needs.

  • 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?

  Healthy Relationship Skills

  • Staying Best Friends After Marriage

    Tips to help you and your spouse continue to grow your friendship after getting married.

  • The why’s and how’s of date night

    TwoOfUs.org explores the importance of date night for married couples.

  Other Challenges

  • Is Work Coming Between You and Your Spouse?

    Balancing work and relationships can be a difficult task, TwoOfUs.org has some tips on how to survive.

  • The ‘Chore War’: Battling Over Who Does What around the House

    Sharing household chores now ranks third on the list of elements tied to successful marriages. Yet many couples still struggle to reach an equitable division of chores.

  Sex & Intimacy

  • The Affection Connection

    TwoOfUs.org explores a new study which tackles the stereotype "Men want sex. Women just want to cuddle."

  Top 10 Lists

  • Top 10 Books Recommended for Couples in Crisis

    Every year, over 2,000 self-help books published. Here are some of the best to help couples in crisis.

  • Top 10 Most Recommended Dramas About Marriage and Family

    This list outlines the top 10 most recommended dramas about marriage and family.

  • Top 10 Myths About Marriage

    The way marriages are portrayed through media and popular culture can cloud our expectations of marriage and set the stage for disappointment during marriage. Do your own reality check by reading this top 10 list of myths.

  • Top 10 Pieces of Advice for a Long and Healthy Marriage

    Here are 10 ways to help ensure a healthy and lasting future for your marriage.

  • Top 10 Wedding Movies

    This list outlines the top 10 wedding movies.

  Unhappy Marriages

  • Weathering Storms in Your Marriage

    What helps carry one marriage through seemingly impossible circumstances while others crash on the rocks?

Videos

• Are second marriages more successful than first marriges?

  In this video, relationship experts Carri and Gordon Taylor explore if second marriages are more successful than first ones.

• 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.

• Can this marriage be saved?

  This video shares that small steps toward emotional closeness can be the solution to saving a marriage.

• 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 a mentor couple help us strengthen our relationship? Part 1

  Andrew Daire, Ph.D. discusses the benefits of having a mentor couple to help you in your relationship.

• How can I help make my marriage stronger? Part 1

  In this video, Hedy Schleifer discusses effective ways to strengthen your marriage relationship.

• How can I help make my marriage stronger? Part 2

  In this video, Nisa Muhammad discusses effective ways to strengthen your marriage relationship.

• 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 can we start our own traditions as a couple?

  In this video, Dr. Rozario Slack discusses how you can begin your own traditions as a couple.

• 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.

• If we argue a lot, does it mean we have a bad marriage?

  Relationship expert Nisa Muhammad explores whether frequent arguments are an indicator of a bad marriage.

• I'm a new husband and stepdad -- now what?

  In this video, relationship experts Carri and Gordon Taylor talk about what to expect as a new husband and a stepdad.

• Is it possible to fall back in love with your spouse? Part 1

  In this video, Hedy Shleifer talks about how married couples can fall back in love with one another.

• Is it possible to fall back in love with your spouse? Part 2

  In this video, Michelle Weiner-Davis talk about how married couples can fall back in love with one another.

• Is it possible to fall back in love with your spouse? Part 3

  In this video, David Carder talks about how married couples can fall back in love with one another.

• Is it possible to fall back in love with your spouse? Part 4

  In this video, Dr. Barry McCarthy talks about how married couples can fall back in love with one another.

• Is marriage supposed to be this hard?

  Relationship experts Dr. Ed Gray, Joseph Hernandez, Ph.D. and Ana Morante address whether marriage is supposed to be difficult.

• Is monogamy possible?

  In this video, Dr. Barry McCarthy talks about if monogamy is possible or not.

• Isn't love enough to keep my mariage alive?

  In this video, Dr. Van Epp explores whether love is enough to keep a marriage alive.

• Opposite sex friends

  This video talks about the importance of protecting your marriage relationship while balancing other important friendships.

• Socking money away for a rainy day

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

• The XYZ formula

  This video explains how to use the XYZ communication formula, which can result in a softer onset to avoid unnecessary tension.

• What does a successful marriage look like? Part 2

  Relationship expert Nisa Muhammad identifies the attributes of a healthy and successful marriage.

• What if my partner won't come with me to marriage counseling?

  What if your partner won't go with you to marriage counseling? In this video, Andrew Daire, Ph.D. explores how to handle the situation.

• What is a healthy marrige?

  In this video, Dr. Sue Johnson addresses what constitutes a healthy marriage.

• What is the difference between marriage education and marriage therapy? Part 1

  Dr. Ed Gray discusses the difference between marriage education and marriage therapy.

• What is the difference between marriage education and marriage therapy? Part 2

  Dr. Tim Gardner discusses the difference between marriage education and marriage therapy.

• What makes marriages last? Part 1

  Relationship experts discuss what factors help a marriage go the distance.

• What makes marriages last? Part 2

  Relationship experts discuss what factors help a marriage go the distance.

• What makes marriages last? Part 3

  Relationship experts discuss what factors help a marriage go the distance.

• What makes marriages last? Part 4

  Relationship experts discuss what factors help a marriage go the distance.

• What makes marriages last? Part 5

  Relationship experts discuss what factors help a marriage go the distance.

• What makes marriages last? Part 6

  Relationship experts discuss what factors help a marriage go the distance.

• What makes marriages last? Part 7

  Relationship experts discuss what factors help a marriage go the distance.

• What should we do when things get difficult?

  Joseph Hernandez, Ph.D. and Ana Morante explore how to respond when you encounter storms in your relationship.

• Why are healthy marriages good for business?

  In this video, Dr. Tim Gardner addresses how good marriages are good for business.

• Why is commitment so important to a marriage?

  In this video, relationship expert Howard Markman, Ph.D. explores the reasons why commitment is so important in a marriage.

• Why should I focus on my marriage for my kid's sake?

  In this video, Michael H. Popkin, Ph.D. talks about focusing on your marriage for your children's sake.