How to Make Your Marriage Last

How to Make Your Marriage Last
By Sheri & Bob Stritof, About.com Guides to Marriage

Every marriage needs help now and then, both during the good times and when things become difficult. Here are issues that impact marriages and skills to help you deal with those issues and problems in healthy ways. Remember that most problems have solutions. Don't ignore the problems and issues in your marriage. If your marriage is in trouble, get started and make the necessary changes together that will help your marriage be a successful, long lasting union.

Create a Long Lasting Marriage
Celebrate Your Anniversaries
Increase Your Communication Skills
Discover How to Repair and Save Your Marriage
Learn From Positive and Negative Examples of Marriage
Know Which Myths and Expectations Could Hurt Your Marriage
Foster Your Intimacy With One Another
Take Care of Yourself When Coping With an Unfaithful Spouse
Face the Challenges of Interfaith, Interracial, and Intercultural Marriages
Generate Both Closeness and Boundaries with Your In-Laws
Grow Old Together
Handle Tough Issues in Your Marriage Together
Know When it is Time to Call it Quits
Create a Long Lasting Marriage

What helps keep your marriage successful and long-lasting? Long lasting marriages have characteristics and qualities that enable the couples to weather through both the good times and the bad times as they journey together on the highway of life. It helps to have a flexible attitude towards your marriage, a willingness to create a balance in the time you spend together and apart, and an openness to change.

Easy and Practical Ways to Make Your Marriage Last
Twelve Ways to Improve Your Marriage
Tips for a Long Lasting Marriage
Leave Love Notes for Your Spouse
Say I Love You
Simple Ways to Be Romantic
How to Create Quality Time for One Another
Reasons to Walk Together
A Month of Dates for Married Couples
Celebrate Your Anniversaries

Your wedding anniversaries deserve to be celebrated in memorable ways. When you celebrate your wedding anniversary each year it is an annual renewal of your commitment to one another.

1st-100th Wedding Anniversary Gift Guide
Create Memorable Anniversaries
How to Have Anniversary Greetings Sent From the White House
Proven Gift Giving Solutions
Increase Your Communication Skills

To have a successful marriage you must learn how to communicate effectively with one another. This includes listening both with your head and with your heart.

Talk With Each Other -- Not At Each Other
Why Your Spouse Won't Listen to You
Is Negativity Hurting Your Marriage?
True Listening Can Be a Challenge
Top 10 Listening Tips
How to Share What's In Your Heart With Your Spouse
Tips For When You Have to Have "The Talk"
The Eye Roll in Marriage
Keeping Secrets and Your Right to Privacy
Why Should You Bother With Daily Dialogue?
Looking for the Right Word? -- List of Feeling Words
Daily Dialogue Tips
Discover How to Repair and Save Your Marriage

If your marriage is in trouble, don't throw in the towel too quickly. Here are ways to repair and save your marriage.

Help for Troubled Marriages
How to Fight Fair
Give Your Marriage a Spring Cleaning
Coping With Stress in Your Marriage
Improve Your Health by Forgiving Your Spouse
How to Rebuild Trust
Learn From Positive and Negative Examples of Marriage

Aside from the curiosity aspect of knowing about the marriages of celebrity couples, you can learn from these couples' successes and failures.

Marriage Secrets of Celebrity Couples
Dennis Weaver on the Secret of Their Successful Marriage
Presidential Candidates' Marriages
In the Midst of Scandal, Why Political Wives Stand By Their Men
Models of Marriage
The Images of Marriage - - Four Different Perceptions
Know Which Myths and Expectations Could Hurt Your Marriage

If you believe in the myth of the fairy tale marriage in the castle on the hill, you could hurt your chances of having a successful marriage. Unrealistic expectations can set the stage for the two of you to be continually bickering with each other. Learn where some of your ideas about marriage came from and talk about your expectations.

Get Your Marriage Out of a Rut
Marriage Expectations
Marriage Myths
Foster Your Intimacy With One Another

Lack of communication about sexual problems can tear your marriage apart. If you have waited several months to talk about sexual problems with your spouse, you've waited too long.

Too Tired for Sex?
Signs of a Low Sex Marriage
When Your Husband Isn't Interested in Sex
Solutions for Women With Low Libido
Can Pornography Undermine Your Marriage?
Take Care of Yourself When Coping With an Unfaithful Spouse

If you are trying to cope after learning that your spouse cheated on you, remember that you are not the reason your spouse cheated. The decision to cheat was made by your spouse. Here's advice on what to do and what not to do during this heart breaking journey.

Warning Signs of Cheating Spouses
Should You Spy on Your Spouse?
What to Do If Your Spouse is Unfaithful -- How to Respond
Who is to Blame?
Emotional Affairs 101
Why Spouses Cheat
Common Excuses for Cheating
Face the Challenges of Interfaith, Interracial, and Intercultural Marriages
If you are in an interfaith, interracial, or intercultural marriage, the two of you have a few more challenges to face than couples of the same faith, race, or culture. Your differences in these marriages may create problems, but usually these problems can be lessened by being honest with one another about the issues.

Tell the Story Behind Your Traditions
Interfaith Marriage Stumbling Blocks
Mistakes to Avoid in Your Interfaith Marriage
Observing the Holidays as an Interfaith Couple
Interracial Marriage Coping Strategies
Interracial Marriage Challenges
Generate Both Closeness and Boundaries with Your In-Laws
Your in-laws can be a tremendous source of support and closeness for the two of you and they can also be a major problem in your marriage relationship. Here are some tips to help you bond with and cope with your in-laws.

Spending Time With Your In-Laws
Top 10 In-Laws Coping Tips
What to Do When Your Parents Disapprove of Your Marriage
What to Do When You Can't Stand Who Your Child Married
Grow Old Together

Being an empty nest couple is the beginning of a whole new marriage experience. Now you have the time to be alone together and do things you want to do, but health issues may surface. It is natural to worry when you see that your spouse isn't feeling well or has obvious medical problems. Here are tips to help when it is just the two of you again.

The Empty Nest Syndrome -- The Sad News and the Good News
What to Do When Your Spouse Won't See a Doctor
When the Bug Bites
Chronic Illness in a Marriage
Handle Tough Issues in Your Marriage Together

Finances and chores are two topics that cause couples to get divorced. Don't let these issues create a wedge between the two of you.

Why Nagging Doesn't Work
How to Divide Household Chores
Maternal Gatekeepers
Is Your Marriage Running on Empty?
Financial Advice You May Not Want to Hear
Financial Issues You Can't Avoid

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