Have you seen your husband withdraw from you mid-conversation? My husband is non-confrontational so he reverts to grunting or tuning me out. If you are married to an A-type man he may actually shut down by pivoting the conversation to a topic he knows will start a fight. What makes him shut down like that […]
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Effective communication in Marriage is key for a Successful Marriage. Learn how to fix communication problems, communicate better and improve your Marriage.
How to Have a Difficult Conversation in a Christian Marriage
What are the difficult things in your life? Do you struggle to have effective conversations with your spouse about difficult things? My husband hates having hard conversations. He will clean out the gutters to avoid a serious talk. If he feels cornered, unprepared, caught off guards about a hard issue in conversation he will shut down, walk […]
How to Improve Communication in a Christian Marriage: Respect
Do you ever feel like your husband has completely shut down and shut you out? No matter what you say, how you say it he’s not hearing you. That was us for years and honestly we still go back to that at times. The truth is he gets tired of being told he’s failed or […]
How to Improve Communication in a Christian Marriage: Playful
Would you describe your relationship as Playful, Flirtatious and Fun? How long has it been since those words fit your Christian Marriage? The pressures, responsibilities and burdens of life tend to steal our Joy and that is dangerous to a successful marriage. When you are married with children there is even more stress to steal […]
How to Improve Communication in a Christian Marriage: Guard
How can I fix communication in my marriage? This is one of the first questions I am asked by countless Christian women looking for practical help to fix a Marriage. It doesn’t take much to cause communication problems in a relationship. The answer is not a quick fix communication tool, it is a systematic approach that […]
How to Improve Communication in a Christian Marriage: Pray
What is the best Marriage advice you’ve been given? Shut up and pray is the best most practical marriage advice that can save a marriage. I prefer “Talk less and pray more” but the message is the same. My prayers for my husband are much more effective to change my husband than any other tool […]
How to Improve Communication in a Christian Marriage: Change
Change is such a hard thing. When things change around me I get anxious and resist. If God begins to challenge me about an area of my life He wants to change I will argue and deflect. So I hesitated to call this session change but it is what has to follow understand. When we understand the […]
How To Improve Communication in a Christian Marriage: Understand
We can agree that we want good communication in our Marriage right?!?!? We want to communicate lovingly, effectively and honestly in a Christian marriage. But improving communication depends on the way we understand communication and all too often we skip that step. Today we are taking a pit stop at the intersection of words and […]
How To Improve Communication in a Christian Marriage: Accept
Raise your hand if you have ever tried to change your husband. Oh, you can’t see me, but my hand is up too. Today we are going to address how to improve communication in marriage by learning to accept your husband as he is. Maybe you don’t think of it as changing him. Let me […]
How To Improve Communication in a Christian Marriage: Know Me
How do you improve communication in Marriage? It’s a question I asked for years with no good answer. Bud and I read some of the best Christian Marriage books which offered a lot of quick-fix strategies that just never worked for us. Can you relate? Hubby and I both wanted to learn how to communicate […]