As the year wraps up, it’s always interesting to look back on the things that greatly influenced or played a role in your life over the past twelve months. Were you surprised by how many times you streamed that one song? Ready to cut down on screen time next year after seeing your device statistics quantified? Feeling accomplished over how many days you worked out?
When it came to our blog posts, you were all about ditching bad relationship habits while hanging onto the good, taking time to connect and reflect, and knowing you’re not alone when it comes to newlywed conflict. Here are the top five posts, all rounded up in one place. Let’s count them down.
#5: Ask These Questions On Every Anniversary
How do you celebrate your wedding anniversary? Whether you go big or keep it low-key, an anniversary is something to take pride in. It’s a great opportunity to reflect on the past year together in the context of your relationship. One way to make this a meaningful tradition is to ask each other these questions every year. Read more…
#4: 10 Ways to Connect in 10 Minutes or Less
In an ideal world, you and your spouse get to enjoy a weekly date night and ample time each day to check in and connect. Reality looks different. Depending on your season of life, you might be lucky if you get a date night every couple months and a few minutes of quiet after the kids the are in bed – and before you’re both ready for bed, too. Even if things aren’t that hectic for you right now, sometimes you’re simply crunched for time. Do you have to sacrifice staying connected? We don’t think so. Here are 10 ways to connect in 10 minutes or less. Read more…
#3: 5 Habits That Sabotage Good Communication
When it comes to communicating with your partner, not every conversation is created equal. Sometimes you’re able to clearly convey what you want and you come out of it on the same page – and same team. Other times, wires get crossed, an innocent exchange gets derailed, and you find yourselves feeling frustrated and misunderstood. The fact is, our own emotions, biases, and expectations can cloud our ability to convey exactly what we mean or accurately interpret what our spouse is telling us. Despite good intentions, you might actually be sabotaging your efforts toward good communication with these five habits. Read more…
#2: 5 Habits to Hold Onto Throughout Your Marriage
Brushing your teeth. Staying active. Paying your bills on time. These are small habits that can potentially have a big impact on your wellbeing. If you forget to do them once or twice, it’s probably not the end of the world. But stop doing them altogether, and the results could be less than ideal. There are similarly small habits that, over time, can greatly affect the vitality of your marriage. While their absence doesn’t necessarily signal that you no longer love each other, their presence enriches your relationship with a consistent connection and respect that stands the test of time. These are the small habits to hold onto throughout your marriage. Read more…
#1: 4 Common Newlywed Arguments
Newlyweds arguing. Does that seem like an oxymoron? We often associate newlyweds with the honeymoon phase but the truth is, the first years of marriage are often quite challenging. As you start your life together and continue to get to know all of the different facets of each other, new issues pop up that may not have had the opportunity to reveal themselves before. Here are four common topics you might argue about as newlyweds. Read more…
So there you have it – our top five blog posts of 2022. What will next year bring? Is there a topic you’d like to see a post about? Let us know in the comments!
“Making a partner your first priority before yourself is a ‘spiritual don’t’ because the secret to life is to love another as icing on an already great cake. If you dare to give your power away and make that person more important, you are out of balance in your energy field. You walk a fragile line with yourself, and if anything should happen, or they leave you, or the relationship changes course, then you are a fallen soul with no means to get up. One must love in healthy way by always making themselves number one in self-care.”
You have given so much insight about the importance of keeping a balance in many aspects of a relationship. They do enrich our lives . Thank you.
One more aspect is how to recognize when you are giving up your own important values for the sake of peace in the relationship. If we give in and let go of our values, we compromise our integrity which is devastating to the soul and can destroy a relationship. How do we apply this in a healthy way to enrich our own lives and relationship?
When our romantic relationships are fraught with hardship, it’s often a sign it’s time to start changing some bad habits.
Healthy partnerships require communication, respect and a lot of mindful intent, but that’s not always possible and it’s not always easy.
If you want a relationship that can stand the test of time, you have to break the negative relationship habits that are keeping you stuck, scared and lashing out at the only other person that really matters. The bad habits that stalk our most intimate connections can be dismantled, but it takes some brutal honesty and it takes some understanding of the things that make you tick.
Humans have an inherent desire to be close to other people — to connect and build relationships
Healthy relationships, whether romantic, friendships or familial, can help make life healthier
Social support is a very important part of being a human, and therefore when social relationships break down or are damaged, it can have a big impact on our mental health and well-being, It’s important to not focus on trying to get everything you need from one relationship
Instead, focus on having a network of social support with a variety of different types of relationships — from romantic, to friendship to associate — to hold up your well-being and quality of life.” A positive relationship can be shared between any two people who support, encourage and help each other practically as well as emotionally. The most important part of a healthy relationship is healthy communication..
As humans, the relationships we form with other people are vital to our mental and emotional well-being and even our survival.
Humans have an inherent desire to be close to other people — to connect and build relationships. While a man talking to a volleyball while stranded on an island (Remember the movie?) isn’t necessarily “healthy,” his compulsion for company is. That’s because healthy relationships, whether romantic, friendships or familial, can help make life healthier
“Social support is a very important part of being a human, and therefore when social relationships break down or are damaged, it can have a big impact on our mental health and well-being,” And it shouldn’t come down to just one relationship.
“It’s important to not focus on trying to get everything you need from one relationship,” “Instead, focus on having a network of social support with a variety of different types of relationships — from romantic, to friendship to associate — to hold up your well-being and quality of life.”
A positive relationship can be shared between any two people who support, encourage and help each other practically as well as emotionally. The most important part of a healthy relationship is healthy communication.
Here are tips for healthy communication in a relationship:
• Remember that you’re not speaking to yourself. Try to understand where the other person is coming from and how they understand the world when communicating with them.
• Be willing to hear something that doesn’t fall within what you’ve predetermined to be true.
• Listen without preparing your rebuttal or response.
In no particular order, people in healthy relationships tend to:
• Listen to each other and communicate without judgment. This includes communicating effectively about sex and intimacy for people in romantic relationships, to ensure that both parties are satisfied within their sexuality.
• Trust and respect each other.
• Consistently make time for each other.
• Remember details about each other’s lives.
• Engage in healthy activities together.
• Work collaboratively as a team rather than as two self-serving individuals.
• Be disciplined. It’s easy to let your hair down and show your worst side around people you are close with, which is why the phrase “You always hurt the ones you love” rings true to many. People in healthy relationships have the discipline to not treat their counterpart poorly just because they are close.
• Be healthy and whole on their own instead of searching for their identity or healing in another person.
• Avoid focusing on what they want to get from the other person but instead focus on how the relationship can be mutually beneficial
Humans have an inherent desire to be close to other people — to connect and build relationships
Healthy relationships, whether romantic, friendships or familial, can help make life healthier
Social support is a very important part of being a human, and therefore when social relationships break down or are damaged, it can have a big impact on our mental health and well-being, It’s important to not focus on trying to get everything you need from one relationship
Instead, focus on having a network of social support with a variety of different types of relationships — from romantic, to friendship to associate — to hold up your well-being and quality of life.” A positive relationship can be shared between any two people who support, encourage and help each other practically as well as emotionally. The most important part of a healthy relationship is healthy communication..
As humans, the relationships we form with other people are vital to our mental and emotional well-being and even our survival.
Humans have an inherent desire to be close to other people — to connect and build relationships. While a man talking to a volleyball while stranded on an island (Remember the movie?) isn’t necessarily “healthy,” his compulsion for company is. That’s because healthy relationships, whether romantic, friendships or familial, can help make life healthier
“Social support is a very important part of being a human, and therefore when social relationships break down or are damaged, it can have a big impact on our mental health and well-being,” And it shouldn’t come down to just one relationship.
“It’s important to not focus on trying to get everything you need from one relationship,” “Instead, focus on having a network of social support with a variety of different types of relationships — from romantic, to friendship to associate — to hold up your well-being and quality of life.”
A positive relationship can be shared between any two people who support, encourage and help each other practically as well as emotionally. The most important part of a healthy relationship is healthy communication.
Here are tips for healthy communication in a relationship:
• Remember that you’re not speaking to yourself. Try to understand where the other person is coming from and how they understand the world when communicating with them.
• Be willing to hear something that doesn’t fall within what you’ve predetermined to be true.
• Listen without preparing your rebuttal or response.
In no particular order, people in healthy relationships tend to:
• Listen to each other and communicate without judgment. This includes communicating effectively about sex and intimacy for people in romantic relationships, to ensure that both parties are satisfied within their sexuality.
• Trust and respect each other.
• Consistently make time for each other.
• Remember details about each other’s lives.
• Engage in healthy activities together.
• Work collaboratively as a team rather than as two self-serving individuals.
• Be disciplined. It’s easy to let your hair down and show your worst side around people you are close with, which is why the phrase “You always hurt the ones you love” rings true to many. People in healthy relationships have the discipline to not treat their counterpart poorly just because they are close.
• Be healthy and whole on their own instead of searching for their identity or healing in another person.
• Avoid focusing on what they want to get from the other person but instead focus on how the relationship can be mutually beneficial