8 Tips to Revitalize Your Conversations

8 Tips to Revitalize Your Conversations

There’s something to be said for being comfortable enough with your spouse that you don’t mind sitting in companionable silence. It doesn’t feel awkward. Neither of you feels obligated to fill the space. You’re content just being together. On the flip side, your...
How to Listen Without Getting Defensive

How to Listen Without Getting Defensive

How to Listen Without Getting Defensive Here’s the key to listening non-defensively. By Kyle Benson (The Gottman Institute) Understanding your partner requires the capacity to listen. Really listen. Couples are advised to hear each other’s complaints without...
I Do Every Day: How Good Are You At Listening to YOur Spouse?

I Do Every Day: How Good Are You At Listening to YOur Spouse?

Anyone else feel like listening is a dying art form?  We carry our lives tucked deep within us. We long for somebody (anybody!) to simply have the occasion to ask for and absorb what’s on our minds, what makes up our lives. But communication in our world happens...
3 Ways to Better Understand Your Spouse’s Personality

3 Ways to Better Understand Your Spouse’s Personality

By Drs. Les and Leslie Parrott – September 7, 2022 – Marriage Do you want to know your spouse on a deeper level? Gaining a greater understanding of your spouse’s personality (and vice versa) is one way to create more closeness in your marriage. Our inborn...
How Your Childhood Can Affect Your Marriage

How Your Childhood Can Affect Your Marriage

 By Terry Gaspard MSW, LICSW is a licensed therapist and authorYour past has a bigger impact on your present than you thinkWhen Deborah, 38, and Scott, 39, (*not their real names) sat on the couch in my office during a couples counseling session,...