Marriage Quick Tips: Affairs, Communication, Avoiding Divorce, and Saving Your Marriage

How does your spouse feel after cheating on you? Is it guilt or remorse? Maybe they don't even care. Discovering your spouse has cheated is like being on an emotional roller coaster. You feel like you have no control and no way to understand what went wrong in your relationship altogether. There are many reasons for an affair, something feels off, falling out of love, the absence of affection...

Does a relationship go back to normal after cheating? Is it possible to move past the hurt and deception and go on like it never happened? These are all tough questions, but we have the answers in this video.  Cheating is a significant moment in your life. Cheating changes everything you ever knew or felt about your spouse. How could they do this to me? I thought we were in love? Where did we go w...

Signs are all around us, and today we discuss the Top 3 Signs of an Unhappy Marriage. Wouldn't it be great always to know what your spouse is thinking? Imagine how fantastic your marriage would be if you could just read their minds and be ready with solutions to their problems.  As a married partner, sometimes it's hard to tell what your spouse is going through and how they're feeli...

If your marriage feels broken or like it’s falling apart, stop what you’re doing and watch this video. At Marriage Helper, we dedicate our time and resources to saving marriages and families, and we want yours to last a lifetime. The first thing to remember is, no one is perfect in a marriage. We all make mistakes, and if marriage were easy, being single wouldn’t exist.  Many things contribute to...

What is micro-cheating? Micro-cheating is doing something that may open the door to another relationship besides the one you're in, right now. In other words, an activity that we would call inappropriate. You might be saying, well, what do you mean, if I'm being funny with somebody, is that micro-cheating? It may; then again, it may not. Flirting, if you're in a relationship very ea...

If you are wondering how to get your husband to pay more attention to you, you'll want to listen to this episode to gain more information on ways to draw him closer and get him to start seeing you again.  There is nothing more frustrating than feeling like you are fighting to get your husband’s attention. Sure, you hang out and spend time together but he isn’t really there 100% of the time or...

Lust—that's a powerful word.  Sometimes people confuse love and lust, and they ask, "Am I in lust or am I in love?" Lust is a desire to mate with an appropriate partner because we are hard-wired to procreate, part of our brains are always looking to make a baby. So the lust part of us is thinking about pleasure, not relationships. Let's look at love. Dr. Sternberg says love has...

Let's look at the research that shows what the benefits are of marriage. Let's approach this from the data and research perspective. We know from research that married people are more likely to have better health physically and emotionally. They have more robust immune systems, better financial stability, and the earning power of a married couple is well above that of a single couple or...

Getting your relationship out of a rut can be difficult, especially if you're unsure of how you even got there. However, there are five ways to improve your marriage when you feel stuck. Begin by ensuring that you're consistently getting control of your emotions, working on yourself, figuring out what you contributed to the breakdown in the relationship, realizing that you cannot control...

You’ve discovered that your spouse is in an affair. You feel betrayed. You probably feel alone.  An affair is never justified. But no matter what has happened in your life, there is a way to overcome it and not just survive it, but thrive it. What you want to do is deal with the emotion and then deal with the situation.  So here’s what I want you to know - that the affair is not a death sentence....