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How Can I Stop My Spouse From Interrupting Conversations?

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Is your spouse a chronic interruptor? Do you dread talking on the phone when your spouse is nearby? Does your spouse tend to jump in the middle of your conversations—or worse, dominate them? And does that interruption derail your chat entirely, or force an end to the original interaction? Interrupting conversations is Control Freak behavior. Even if it’s a seemingly small quirk among your spouse’s many good qualities, it’s worth addressing. While you want to avoid becoming controlling too, there are a few things you can do to call your spouse’s attention to the problem. Before we move on, let’s…

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Help! I Need My Spouse To Pay Attention When I Speak

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There’s little more frustrating than struggling to keep your spouse’s attention. You want them to listen. You need them to hear what you have to say. After all, you offer them that courtesy. Yet it seems that every time you try to tell them something important, their attention drifts. Maybe they’re chronically busy at work, or they have a lot on their mind. They could simply have a distractible personality. Either way, you find yourself increasingly annoyed — and you need something to change fast. There’s an important thing to remember: Whether your husband or wife struggles to pay attention,…

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Should I Share Good News With My Spouse First?

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Let’s say you get great news, and you can’t wait to tell someone. Can you share it with family, friends, or coworkers first? Or should you wait to tell your spouse? It can be tempting to let the big news slip before you get home. But when you share your excitement with everyone else first, that puts a damper on the moment you’ll share with your spouse later. You might not realize it, but you’re giving up important memories you could be making in your marriage. Telling Everyone Else the Big News Can Dull Your Excitement Sharing good news with…

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I Struggle To Encourage My Spouse. Help Me Say The Right Things!

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Do you find it difficult to encourage your spouse? Maybe you feel awkward, uncertain, or even unheard when you offer praise. Perhaps your spouse rejects your encouragement. You might even find yourself thinking (or saying), “I just can’t seem to say anything right!” Sometimes, it’s hard to know what to say. If you’re a person of few words or your personality is more introverted, expressing praise can feel uncomfortable. And if your spouse struggles with low self-esteem or feelings of inadequacy in certain areas, it can be difficult for them to hear and accept encouraging words. In both scenarios, there…

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Honesty Roundup: How to Navigate Truth and Lies in Marriage

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Are you ready to build a happier, healthier marriage? Honesty is an important foundational ingredient in the healthiest marriages. It allows us to communicate in an open, vulnerable, and authentic way. Sometimes, it’s also tricky to navigate. Today on the blog, we’ve gathered some of our top posts about truth and lies in marriage. If you’re looking to build a more honest relationship with your spouse, this is a great place to start. What to Do When A Spouse Lies Catching your spouse in a lie is devastating. Dishonesty erodes the foundation of trust you’ve built in your marriage. No…

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Communication Techniques Feel Awkward. What Do I Do Now?

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Do communication techniques feel awkward to you? You genuinely want more meaningful communication with your spouse. The problem is, whenever you try to apply a method you’ve learned, it feels awkward and unnatural. If you can’t use those techniques, what else are you supposed to do? Using communication tactics such as reflecting your spouse’s feelings might feel robotic and unnatural. You might feel like you’re going through the motions of an exercise. But getting agitated by a technique can actually distract you from your goal: better, healthier communication. If you struggle with using communication tools, what should you do? Is…

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How Can I Help My Spouse If They Won’t Open Up?

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Does your spouse withdraw when you’re going through a tough time? Seasons of grief, loss, and waiting are difficult for everyone. But we each survive those seasons in different ways. Maybe your spouse self-isolates during times like this, but you crave deep connection. How can you persuade them to open up to you? You want to join with your spouse’s spirit and get through this together. You’re eager to walk alongside them and share their grief, but they’re so private about their feelings, and it’s confusing and hurtful. Why won’t they just talk to you about how they’re feeling and…

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My Spouse Tells Everyone My Secrets. What Can I Do?

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Does your spouse spill your secrets? It’s upsetting when someone tells your secrets to friends and family. And when your spouse does the telling, that hurts even more. We want to be able to trust the person we marry with our vulnerabilities, fears, and deepest secrets. So what can you do when your spouse breaks confidence? Is there any way to rebuild trust in your marriage? Let’s talk about it. Spilled Secrets Feel Like Betrayal Let’s say you opened up to your spouse about a sensitive subject—one you’ve been reluctant to discuss. You finally worked up the courage to bring…

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Help! My Spouse Needs Tough Love, But I Don’t Want To Hurt Them

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Does your spouse need tough love? Giving your spouse constructive criticism, addressing a problematic habit, or asking them to correct an upsetting behavior can be scary. You love this person more than anyone else in the world. How are you supposed to point out something you’re unhappy about? You want to speak the truth in love, but you find yourself avoiding a direct conversation. Instead, you dance around the topic. Even worse, maybe you bury it, hoping it will go away on its own. Rather than avoiding tough conversations, it’s important to put them on the table sooner rather than…

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Better Communication, Better Love: Forgiveness and Conflict Resolution

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Forgiveness and conflict resolution are crucial components of good communication. That’s true not only in marriage, but across all your relationships. To build a happy marriage with true, lifelong love, you’ll need to be able to not only solve conflicts that arise; you’ll also need to be willing to forgive one another. In this final part of our four-part series on better communication, we’re focusing on how to lovingly resolve conflict and forgive often. Ready to learn more? Let’s jump into it. Listen With Empathy When working through a conflict, it’s important to listen to one another with empathy. Understanding…

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