Definition: 'Anger' is a natural and powerful emotional response commonly triggered by perceived threats, frustrations, or injustices, often characterized by increased heart rate, elevated blood pressure, and heightened levels of adrenaline and noradrenaline.
Often the fights we have as couples aren’t about what we think they are. Because while we think we’re fighting about respect, sex, tone, in-laws, money, kids or anything else under the sun, often the real issue is far less dramatic.
Sometimes it’s just physiology. Before a disagreement turns into an argument (or whenever you “wake up” enough to think “how did this become a fight?!”), there’s a simple checklist worth running first:
HALT.
Hungry
Angry
Lonely
Tired
Resentment is a dangerous feeling. I see it in marriages nearly every day. A spouse has done something years ago, and it was never dealt with, or never adequately resolved. Perhaps there was no apology, or maybe no forgiveness given. Either way, resentment grows. There
I received this question from our Have A Question page a few days ago: My husband used to be addicted to watching pornography, for over a decade. It was a struggle in our marriage for a long time, but he has successfully overcome the addiction.
There is a common joke in married circles about “sleeping on the couch”. It typically refers to a husband being sent to go sleep on the couch, because he has done something to offend his wife and she has decided he cannot sleep in their