Business Partners and Spouses: Working Together while Maintaining a Healthy Relationship
Business partners who are also married face unique challenges. Here are some tips for maintaining a healthy relationship while working together.
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Are you building walls in your life or boundaries?
Boundaries are invisible, symbolic fences that make us good neighbours, partners, friends, and parents by protecting our emotions, heart and soul. Unfortunately, a common response is to build walls instead of boundaries. The ‘wall building’ pattern you learnt may have started long ago in an endeavour to protect yourself from legitimate harmful behaviour, yet still today in a different environment, different circumstances and with different people the walls go up keeping you chained to yesterdays’ pain – imprisoned, isolated and fearful, rather than free.
How to keep your kids off the screens this Christmas
Do your kids stay online much longer than they intended?
The Valentines Day blues…
There are many reasons why Valentine’s Day can feel like the one day in the year that you want to forget. And for some that feeling is rightly so.
Staying calm amongst the chaos
With the current pandemonium sweeping throughout the world, it’s very easy to get caught up in the frenzy.
Tell me why you love me!
A great marriage doesn’t just happen by accident! It needs two people to continually show love and support, to create the positive environment needed for a marriage to flourish.
Words have power!
In our marriage, Rick takes the award for the best encourager. He’s generally very positive and naturally uses his words to build others up. I love being the recipient of that in our marriage!
I’m sorry!
Making an apology can be a difficult task, it means admitting that you were wrong and swallowing some pride to do it. Because of this, often couples avoid apologizing, or make half-hearted attempts because the discomfort they feel is too confronting.
What do we have in common???
f you’ve ever read the book ‘The Five Love Languages’ by Gary Chapman you will know that one of the love languages is Quality Time. It’s one of our top two love languages and it’s what most marriages thrive on. Whether ‘Quality Time’ is taking a Sunday drive together, playing a game of golf, or intentionally sitting on the couch talking, it all spells love and intimacy for your marriage.
Is technology hurting your marriage?
Recently I enabled the ‘Screen Time’ function on my iPhone. It was quite confronting to see how much time I was wasting on my phone per day – scrolling through social media, checking the latest news, glancing at Pinterest, and texting friends. And that didn’t include emails, Netflix, or my friend google!
How are the stress levels in your marriage?
The full impact is yet to be seen, but what we do know is that marriages are feeling enormous stress as they try and live in an uncertain world. Stress can be a major contributor to relationship breakdowns, usually transferring from one person to the other, sending a couple’s mood spiraling down.
