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.

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.