How to Handle Toxic or Dysfunctional Family Members
The people who form your family circle are likely among the more influential people in your life. However, that influence may be for good or for ill. Your family, [...]
Communication Styles in the Workplace: Understanding Functional Communicators
In any setting, our ability to communicate is vital. Communication entails the way we receive, understand, process, and share information. This is usually engrained in who we are and [...]
How to Overcome Bitterness in Your Life and Relationships
All of us have had a person or a situation in our life that made us grimace as though we had just eaten a raw lemon. Life is difficult [...]
Opening Up About Your Financial Past in Premarital Counseling
Premarital counseling is designed to help couples moving toward marriage work together to prepare for a lifelong relationship. Many things are discussed in premarital counseling such as plans for [...]
Different Attachment Types Resulting From Neglect
Attachment types are defined as patterns of behaviors that people display in relationships. Some of these behaviors can stem from neglect as a child or even as an adult. [...]
The First Stages and Signs of Infidelity
Regardless of what popular media tells us, infidelity doesn't just happen. We do not wake up one day, see an old flame, and fall into bed. We open the [...]
Marriage Advice for Christian Couples
If you and your spouse are a Christian couple, it doesn’t matter whether you are young or old, there is something categorically different about your relationship than just marriage [...]
Keys to Effective Listening (and How it Works)
Want to improve your relationships with a single step? Effective listening is one of the best keys to accomplish this goal. There are simple ways to become a more [...]
Dealing with Resentment in Marriage
People can be complicated, and the ways we relate to one another more so. In marriage, spending a lifetime together provides many opportunities to create happy memories, but it’s [...]
12 Warning Signs of a Toxic Relationship
There are many different types of relationships, including romantic, friendly, familial, professional, community, and online. Regardless of the type of relationship, each has great potential to be unhealthy and [...]