Dear Brides: In the survey by Prepare & Enrich, they discovered that closeness and flexibility are very important in helping couples to have successful,…
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Dear Brides: In Prepare & Enrichs national survey of 50,000 couples, the issue of resolving conflicts was very important and differentiated between happy and…
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Dear Brides: Communication and intimacy are interrelated. Couples, especially unhappy ones, often complain, “We don’t communicate.” But its impossible not to communicate. In fact,…
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Dear Brides: In our last letter, we talked about taking time to have a realistic look at your relationship. The question is: How healthy…
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Dear Brides: A popular example used to understand marriage and family relationships are a river. The river metaphor accentuates the ever-changing nature of relationships.…
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Dear Brides: Almost everything you do affects your mate, sometimes subtly while other times, overtly. But whatever you do, it’s making either love deposits…
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