Marriage is a beautiful thing but sometimes it can get off track and it may need a little tender love and care. My grandmother was married for over 60 years and when I asked her for advice when I got married, she said, “Sometimes marriage is work.” I have used that advice over the years. […]
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Relationships: How To Have Hard Conversations
Relationships are stuff life is made of. We develop relationships with people in different ways and these relationships can be nurturing, constructive, motivational, deflating, or demoralizing. Each relationship is different. Some relationships are easy and obvious, others take work. If you are like me, you like to avoid confrontation and you may back away from […]
What I Love About You
Your marriage is the rock your world is built on and if you have kids, it is their foundation as well. However, it is easy to take it for granted or put it on the back burner. With Valentine’s Day around the corner, let your love take the front seat. Take the “What I Love […]
Top Ten Relationship Mistakes To Avoid
Sometimes, being in a relationship is no easy task. In fact when I asked my grandmother who had been married for over 50 years for marital advice, she told me, “Sometimes marriage is work.” At the time I had stars in my eyes and love seemed so easy. I had no idea what she really […]
Encourage Childhood Friendships
As parents, we should encourage childhood friendships. You know those friends that you have had forever? The childhood friendships that you made somewhere back in elementary school or middle school. The ones who you hung out with everyday. They knew your first crush, shared your deepest secrets (as deep as a ten year old can […]
Keeping The Magic Alive In Marriage
I’ve been with my husband for 20 years. We met freshman year of college and holy cow, time flies! We have been married for 12 of those years. My husband is a great life partner, but our marriage is not always perfect. We all make relationship mistakes. Life has so many curveballs to throw! When […]
Importance Of Sex In Marriage
I tend to be a bit prim and proper so you don’t usually see posts on the topic of sex on Family Focus Blog. When the author Leon Scott Baxter wrote me to see if I’d be interested in a guest post on the subject, I said I could take a look at but I […]