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,…
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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…
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…
Is Laura Doyle’s Book Consistent with Jewish Values?
So many have improved their marriages by using the Laura Doyle techniques. But are these techniques in line with what the Torah would advise us? By a BCP Reader We recently received this letter from a BCP reader after we published the post Are You Married to a Figment of Your Imagination? by Laura Doyle…
How To Win Your Husband’s Love
We can only win by playing the roles Hashem originally intended for us. Whether a woman is married for a day, a decade, or half a century, there’s nothing she wants more than for her husband to love her. We know this not from the plethora of marriage books on the mainstream market. We know this…
How to Show Respect to Your Husband
Think it’s an old-fashioned idea? If it makes your relationship with your husband better, these techniques are as current as ever. Our mothers and grandmothers didn’t need lessons on how to respect a husband. They got married and quickly fell into a role that felt natural. Our generation has more trouble. Perhaps we’re more educated,…
5 Things the Single in Your Life Wishes You Knew
Singles don’t need pity or unsolicited advice. But they do need your thought. A single shares what she’d like you to know. Five years ago, when I got engaged at 25 years old, the principal of the school I taught in called me into her office and said, “I’m thrilled for you but I’m even…
6 Cheap Date Ideas to Enjoy with Your Husband
Can’t get out? Find it out of budget? Still, it’s important for you and your husband to find time to spend alone. Here are 6 date night ideas that make it possible. You say you don’t have time for a date. You don’t have extra money. You are tired…or there is nothing exciting to do…