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The One Thing 11 Relationship Experts Think You Should Know About Your Partner Before Marrying Them
By: Carolyn Steber Before getting married, it's important to come to several layers of understanding with your partner. Obviously you'll want to discuss where you think you'd like to live, as well as fun things like how often you'd like to go […]
Pros and Cons of Sharing Your Finances as a Married Couple
by Abby Hayes The pros of combining your finances Combining your finances can be tricky, especially if both parties have their own debts, accounts and assets coming into the marriage. But it might be worth it for the following reasons: Women may have […]
4 Things We Learned From Marriage Counseling
www.marriage365.0rg Yes, Casey and I are the first to admit that we have been to marriage counseling. But we don’t view it as a bad thing at all. In fact, we both embrace that having a third set of eyes on the […]
25 Fun Questions To Ask Your Spouse
www.marriage360.org John Gottman calls them love maps. We call them open ended questions. The point here is that you talk, laugh, dream and learn more about each other. Some questions are silly while others really get you thinking about some possible big […]
The Holy Trinity of Finances
by: Tim Schuster How managing your finances is about more than being practical, it’s also about understanding and acknowledging the emotional and spiritual side of money … the “financial trinity” if you will. Money Is Practical There is a rational and logical side […]
Monopoly, Money, and Marriage
www.prepare-enrich.com “I will buy water works from you for $250,” my husband offered. We were playing our first family game of Monopoly. Sitting around the board was my daughter who is eight, my son who is ten, my husband Brad, and myself. Having […]
Financial Infidelity: 4 Steps for Healing Marriages Torn by Finances
by Brian Robson The Simple Dollar “…for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer…” Millions of Americans make those vows each year, but an alarming number of marriages end in divorce. In fact, it’s been estimated that the percentage of marriages ending in […]
8 [Financial] Things to Think About Before You Get Married
www.thesimpledollar.com One of the most upsetting and painful arguments that my wife and I ever had came a few months before we got married. We had been dating for six years at that point and had been planning our marriage for […]
20 Ideas for Date Night
cook a gourmet meal together read together - either read the same book aloud, or each of you choose your own book walk and talk ride bikes dabble in a new sport - bowl? skate? batting cage? putting green? […]
10 Tips for Managing Stress
Want to learn how to manage stress together 24/7? Try this self-paced, on-demand, online course - https://courses.closecompanions.org/p/managing-stress-together-online-course Develop self-awareness and learn to effectively identify your stress. If you’re flying through life, barely stopping to breathe, you might not even be […]
