Marriage Tips 9 & 10 to Stay Married Forever
Dr. Joey Faucette, Marriage Coach
9. Never assume you always know more than your spouse. If you do, your insecurity will drive your spouse away from you.
10. Compel your spouse as a way of dealing with conflict very sparingly. Nobody likes to be told what to do all the time, even when they love you.
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Friday, May 1, 2009
Monday, April 20, 2009
Marriage Tips 7 & 8 to Stay Married Forever
Marriage Tips 7 & 8 to Stay Married Forever
Dr. Joey Faucette, Marriage Coach
7. Make your personal commitment to yourself and your spouse to do whatever you can to resolve any and all conflict that arises. Promise to make it a priority in your relationship to resolve any and all conflict just as soon as humanly possible, preferably before the sun goes down.
8. Persuade your spouse as a means of resolving conflict only when you know more about the issue at hand than your spouse does. Keep your tone and spirit kind as you inform.
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Dr. Joey Faucette, Marriage Coach
7. Make your personal commitment to yourself and your spouse to do whatever you can to resolve any and all conflict that arises. Promise to make it a priority in your relationship to resolve any and all conflict just as soon as humanly possible, preferably before the sun goes down.
8. Persuade your spouse as a means of resolving conflict only when you know more about the issue at hand than your spouse does. Keep your tone and spirit kind as you inform.
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Monday, April 6, 2009
Marriage Tips 5 & 6 to Stay Married Forever
Marriage Tips 5 & 6 to Stay Married Forever
Dr. Joey Faucette, Marriage Coach
5. Discover your individual and couple Conflict Management Style. You and your spouse react to conflict in a predictable pattern. Learning those patterns and adapting to each other and the situation equips you to resolve conflict better.
6. Decide to resolve your conflict and load it up and drive it away to an emotional landfill. The goal here is resolution, not total agreement or consensus every time. Resolution means sometimes you agree to disagree.
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Dr. Joey Faucette, Marriage Coach
5. Discover your individual and couple Conflict Management Style. You and your spouse react to conflict in a predictable pattern. Learning those patterns and adapting to each other and the situation equips you to resolve conflict better.
6. Decide to resolve your conflict and load it up and drive it away to an emotional landfill. The goal here is resolution, not total agreement or consensus every time. Resolution means sometimes you agree to disagree.
View more great tips at http://www.staymarriedforever.org
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Marriage Tips 3 & 4 to Stay Married Forever
Marriage Tips 3 & 4 to Stay Married Forever
Dr. Joey Faucette, Marriage Coach
3. Have at the C.O.R.E. of your marriage positive, preferred qualities, habits, characteristics to guide you through the deserts and swamps, hills and valleys of your relationship. Successful couples learn:
a) Conflict Management skills,
b) Opposites Attract and how to use their opposite preferences as strengths,
c) Relevant Issues can grow from molehills to mountains if not treated, and
d) Express Yourself strategies that increase communication effectiveness.
CONFLICT
4. Learn to resolve conflict. If you don’t, it lays around your marriage like garbage and starts to smell like it, too.
Dr. Joey Faucette, Marriage Coach
3. Have at the C.O.R.E. of your marriage positive, preferred qualities, habits, characteristics to guide you through the deserts and swamps, hills and valleys of your relationship. Successful couples learn:
a) Conflict Management skills,
b) Opposites Attract and how to use their opposite preferences as strengths,
c) Relevant Issues can grow from molehills to mountains if not treated, and
d) Express Yourself strategies that increase communication effectiveness.
CONFLICT
4. Learn to resolve conflict. If you don’t, it lays around your marriage like garbage and starts to smell like it, too.
Friday, March 27, 2009
Marriage Tips 1 & 2 to Stay Married Forever
1. Prepare to stay married forever as thoroughly as you do for your wedding day. Five years from now the flowers are dead and the cake is eaten, but you still wake up next to your spouse. Prepare accordingly.
2. Beat the odds of winding up in divorce court—50% of all first marriages, 63% of second marriages, and 72% of third or more marriages—by doing marriage coaching before and during your marriage. The I.R.S. gives you booklets to explain their forms, but nothing came with your marriage certificate. Discover how to Stay Married Forever with a marriage coach.
2. Beat the odds of winding up in divorce court—50% of all first marriages, 63% of second marriages, and 72% of third or more marriages—by doing marriage coaching before and during your marriage. The I.R.S. gives you booklets to explain their forms, but nothing came with your marriage certificate. Discover how to Stay Married Forever with a marriage coach.
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