When Your Relationship Feels Hopeless: Eight Ways to Find Hope Again
On the other hand, if all your friends are either single or unhappily married, they may have more of an influence on you than you realize. The problem with venting to friends is that they only hear your side of the story. They will usually take your side and magnify your spouse's faults. They may encourage you to leave if you're "not happy." All of this negative feedback can go a long way toward feeding your discouragement. So try to have more positive voices in your life who encourage your partnership.
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Oh no! I’m Married to My Opposite!
Are you and your spouse completely different? Do you sometimes wonder how you’re going to make it? Well, I understand, because I’m married to my opposite, too! We are different in so many ways: personality, interests and background. When we first got married, I would google “married to your opposite” into the search engine, desperate for someone that would help me in some way.
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Stepmoms: 5 Ways To Get Through Mother’s Day
Mother’s Day can be a difficult day for stepmothers. Although you may feel like you are doing mothering work, you are often not recognized as a mom. You may care like a mom, too, but no one seems to see it, or care. In today’s podcast episode, I talk about ways to get through this sentimental holiday.
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Seven Tools for Healing Past Relationship Hurts
Emotional healing isn’t really a topic that we talk about often in our society. Most of us would prefer to let everyone think that we’re “just fine,” but sometimes, we just aren’t “fine.” In fact, if we’ve never been through the healing journey, we may be carrying around sadness, anger or resentment without even realizing it. The dangerous part, though, is all of that unrecognized hurt can skip our consciousness but land straight on the head of someone we love, such as our spouse or maybe or kids. When we don’t deal with things, it comes out in other ways.
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Encouragement Book for Stepmoms
Are you a stepmom needing a little bit of encouragement? Do you sometimes feel like you’re in a no-win situation? Do you maybe even wonder if you might have made a mistake? Being a stepmother is one of the hardest roles you can take on. You “play the part” of being a mother: doing the work, and putting in the time but you are rarely if ever, recognized for what you are doing. The children often see you as “the enemy,” and treat you as such.
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Connection and Communication with Jed and Jen Jurchenko
Do you ever go through periods in your marriage when you feel distant from your partner: almost like strangers? Do you ever long for more connection and dialogue between you? Authentic conversation, going beyond the mundane necessities of schedules, childcare, or housework, is vital for all of us. We need to get to know each other again and again because we are always changing.
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My Changed Thoughts on Valentine’s Day
Hey everyone, welcome to the Happily Ever After Again podcast. I’m your host, Sharilee Swaity. Today, it is Valentine’s Day and I am coming to you with my Valentine’s Day show. Today, I want to share three ways my thinking has changed about this holiday over the years, and how these changes have made me less disappointed in this sometimes controversial holiday.
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