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Turn Resentment into Appreciation!

Feb 04, 2019

Building Couple Time Tip: 

Feeling Misunderstood and Resentful?

Turn Resentment into Appreciation! 


Are you a tired parent with baby and/or toddler who often feels misunderstood and resentful towards your partner?  

It’s not your fault!  Many couples like you...

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New Parents | Ease Up On Unrealistic Expectations!

Dec 10, 2018

Building Couple Time Tip: 

New Parents:  Ease Up on Unrealistic Expectations! 


It’s very common for you to continue to expect you should forge ahead with your new families, not appreciating the increase in unexpected changes, child care, couple care, fatigue, increased work...

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Juggling Marriage, Young Children, and Work?

Nov 12, 2018

Building Couple Time Tip:  

Try a Digital Detox to Balance Work and Family Life 


When you’re “Building Couple Time With your Family in Mind” we feel that happy and healthy couples make for happy and healthy young children and families. This means, then, that...

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One Vital Meeting to Save Your Job and Your Marriage

Oct 05, 2018

Building Couple Time Tip: 

One Vital Meeting to Save Your Job and Your Marriage 


What if your job depended on one vital meeting a week that you must attend or you’ll lose your job!  You would probably prioritize that meeting above everything else.  No excuses! 

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Family Play Date | Feel the Love and Laughter with Your Entire Family!

Jul 09, 2018

Building Couple Time Tip: 

Family Play Date:  Feel the love and laughter with your entire family! 


Yes, it’s important to carve out couple time and me time, so that your young children have parents who are happy and filled up.  Trust me, your children feel your...

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How to Save Your Marriage in One Step

Jun 05, 2018

Building Couple Time Tip:

“How to Save your Marriage in One Step” 


In this great blog post by my colleague and friend, Kim Bowen, LPC, founder of The Marriage Place, she shares how focusing on the positive in your marriage for 90 days can transform your marriage.

Now for you...

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5 Free Marriage Tips for New Parents!

May 15, 2018

Building Couple Time Tip: 

5 Free Marriage Tips for New Parents


Tip #1: Acknowledge that the first 6 months to a year after baby

involves major adjustments of time and energy for everyone. Both of you are probably trying really hard to adjust to your new roles as parents....

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Fair Fighting Strategies that Really Work!

Mar 14, 2018

Building Couple Time Tip:

Marriage Advice | Learning to Fight Fair 


The research points out that conflict goes up and marital satisfaction goes down after the first child comes along. 

This tip aims to help you avoid being one of those statistics. 

Sure there’s a lot more...

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When the Couple Team Really Counts

Feb 20, 2018

Couples who endure stressful times in their relationships and come out on the other side truly understand when the couple team really counts. How do couples keep together during stressful times? The concept “team” comes to mind. One of my mentor’s, Peter Pearson, Ph.D. at the...

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Help I'm Drowning in Laundry!

Feb 20, 2018

Building Couple Time Tip: 

The Laundry System Metaphor


When I think of organizing the lives of new parents with young children, I think of my laundry system.

I remember when our kids came along. My husband and I had been together for 8 years. I was amazed how much laundry accumulates when...

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