Often, when someone is a poor spouse, it’s because they didn’t have the right opportunities growing up to develop secure relationships. But you can help your spouse fix that by giving them the security they didn’t get before. When a baby is born it doesn’t take long for him to often exclusively want his mother….
Marriage
How to Create a Schedule for the Day of the Wedding
You’ve spent weeks planning. But it’s worthwhile to carefully plan one last day. Before we start making a schedule, there’s some things to do first: Know your family. My father a”h would joke that a Yekke is never early nor late but perfectly on time and while we aren’t Yekkes…we tend to run pretty close…
Mazel Tov! The Week-by-Week Guide for Planning a Wedding
Don’t know what to start or what to do when? This week-by-week schedule will make the wedding planning a bit easier. My 15 year old daughter (my oldest!) read this article and I think she may finally trust me to marry her off when the right time comes. See, while I haven’t married off my…
Three Very Wrong Pieces of Marriage Advice (And What to Do Instead)
You’ve gotten advice, some of it may have been very good. But now it’s time to debunk three common marriage myths. When you got married, you probably had a lot of well-meaning marriage advice coming at you from all directions – from your great-aunt Mirel, your sheitel macher, the sweet Russian lady who hemmed your…
One Eye-Opening Tip That Will Make Your Marriage Better
It may seem obvious, but turning to your third partner in your marriage–Hashem–during certain moments will change everything. Read on for some real life impacting tips! If you close your eyes and picture the most blessed atmosphere in your home, the most majestic feel in your marriage, what would it be? Happiness, contentment, peace, love,…
Don’t Go To Sleep Angry: The Biggest Myth in Marriage Advice, and What To Do Instead.
Sometimes, you need to step away to see things with clarity. The advice was: don’t go to sleep angry. Maybe you tried it. And hurting from a painful conversation and taxed emotionally, tired physically, and riled up hormonally, you still made up and smoothed things out. But there is a better way to resolve conflict….
Lockdown is Hard on Marriages. 5 Ways to Reverse That Effect
It seems it’s easier to get along with a spouse when you’re not tied down to the same space all day, every day. But you can stay happy and keep your marriage healthy. These tips might help. Spending extended time with the same person 24/7 would be stressful for anyone – even in the best…
How Young Couples Can Survive Lockdown
While the internet is full of suggestions for parents who are now juggling working from home, online schools, managing a house, and trying to stay sane, the women I work with (who are in their first years of marriage) are largely facing a completely different struggle. Suddenly there is just so. much. time. Time to…
Young Couple Stuck at Home? Ideas of What You Can Do Together
Young couples can make the most of their time at home alone together. Some of our younger or newly married readers have been asking us for ideas on how they can keep busy while also growing their relationships. So, we turned to some of the younger ladies in our lives and asked them for their…
Take Two: Is The Surrendered Wife Approach Consistent with Torah Values?
In some ways it is, in some ways it isn’t. Relationship coach Chaya Juravel explains the areas in which the Doyle approach does not work for the Jewish wife… Chazal say that he who loves his wife, he will call and Hashem will answer; that if a couple is has a strong loving bond, Hashem…
