While it is true that no marriage is perfect, you can always strive to make it work. Marriage comes with hard work and both parties have to commit to become better and grow together. Hence we asked 12 experts, how to … Continue reading How to Be a Better Wife and Improve Your Marriage?
Nosy folks often ask if my wife and I ever fight. We don’t argue or yell; we may disagree from time to time and being that we’re both stubborn, spend an hour or two in our separate corners. However, we … Continue reading Laying Here Quiet Ain’t Working for Me
My husband and I have quite the unexpected love story. We were both married previously and my experience wasn’t exactly the best. I married the summer after my sophomore year in college at the naive age of nineteen and marriage … Continue reading An Unexpected Love
Over last few year I have met some pretty awesome people in couples’ counseling. Usually the issues that bring them to me have less to do with loss of love and more to do with a lack of healthy communication. I am … Continue reading We Need to Talk: Five Tips to Improve Communication in Your Marriage
Many couples spend years of their marriage bumping heads over how their family should work. Most of us come into marriage with our own of how a “family works.”; ideas usually based from our family experiences growing up. Many couples … Continue reading Tips Beyond the Broom: Family Matters
I was a teenager when I noticed the majority of my relationships in my surroundings were unwed parents in tumultuous relationships that didn’t display affection, respect, growth or real partnership. The mothers were typically the primary custodial parent, struggled financially, … Continue reading All I Knew is the Life I Didn’t Want
Marriage is not easy and I don’t think it’s supposed to be. Once you add children, a mortgage, bills and other responsibilities to the mix, it can get overwhelming. You can start to feel less and less like lovers and … Continue reading Getting in the Game
How many times have we heard the phrases, “If I get divorced, I ain’t never get married again,” or, “So, you’re doing it again huh? Better man than me,”? I’m 37, happily divorced at 28, and happily remarried. I got … Continue reading A Rebirth of Sorts
Most married couples that I have worked with admitted to lying to their spouse about money at some point in their relationship. A lie as simple as spending on an item that both were not aware of can quickly … Continue reading Tips Beyond the Broom: Communicating about Finances
I have found that the hard thing about Black love is that a good portion of our relationships are spent overcoming the condition of distrust and the subconscious feelings of unworthiness put in us by society. Fatin and I were … Continue reading What I’ve Learned…
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