Tag Archives: Tools
Old Behavior Patterns and Starting Over
One of Sharon’s and my struggles after our separation was that even though we had learned a lot of new communication and conflict resolution skills and adopted more positive attitudes towards each other during our separation – both of which … Continue reading
Life Hack: Finances
One area of marriage that tends to have a lot of conflict is finances, however there are some simple things that can be done to at least prevent some of the conflict. Years into our marriage we went to a … Continue reading
Life Hack: Sharing a Calendar
We teach quite a few tools about how to resolve conflict, but most of the time it is easier to just minimize conflict. Having a shared calendar is one way to minimize conflict over schedules. We’ve learned over the years … Continue reading
Encompass Connection Center Online
We participated in an online group presentation about anger sponsored by Encompass Connection Center. Our portion was teaching and modeling the PAIRS Emotional Jug. Lots of good teaching about the physiology of anger by Abby Glaser and other ideas about … Continue reading
Inspiring Couples To Use What They’re Taught
One of the hardest things for us about helping crisis couples, or even one person of the crisis couple, is inspiring them to use and practice what they are taught. Sharon and I can teach many communication and conflict resolution skills and … Continue reading
Weekly Devotions
We got the idea of weekly devotions from our friends, Clint and Penny Bragg at Inverse Ministries. Here is a post from them about how they do their weekly devotions. We actually started our own devotions by using their book … Continue reading
Being Mindful of One Another
In the past I’ve talked about being thankful and using a daily thankful journal to remember all of God’s goodness to us. The couple in this article has learned to be mindful and grateful for the things they do for … Continue reading
Being Thankful
So then, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live your lives in him, rooted and built up in him, strengthened in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness.~ Colossians 2:6-7 (NIV) Let the … Continue reading
Simple Ways To Say “I Love You”
I thought this was a great list of ideas to inspire us to do simple things for our spouse that communicates “I love you.” 74 Simple Things You Can Do To Brighten Your Spouse’s Day
Simple Romance
Here are some simple romantic ideas. Write notes to each other on the mirror using a dry erase marker. Write little love notes or notes of encouragement on Post-it notes and put them places your spouse will find. Pick some … Continue reading
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