Category: Communication
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Marriage Mistake #5 – Negative Focus
Have you ever tried to tend a garden? If you don’t have the plastic weed barrier firmly in place, then you might as well resign yourself to a long-term battle with your finger on the trigger of Round-Up—aiming to kill. In the same way that weeds can take over a flower garden, I allowed “weeds”…
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Marriage Mistake #3 – Avoided Conflict
I grew up in a family that didn’t really know how to resolve conflicts in a healthy way. Often my parents played opposite positions in times of conflict, but neither position brought resolution to the problem nor did it bring them together as a couple. They were living-out examples of the extremes in communication. My…
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Marriage Mistake #2 – Expected Too Much Communication
Let’s face it. There are major differences between men and women, and one of the big ones is the amount of communication women use versus men. Studies have shown that women use approximately 20,000 words per day compared to the measly 7,000 word count that men tend to prefer. You can tell this simply by…
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Marriage Mistake #1 – Never Asked for Help
I’m going to start a new series of posts based upon the mistakes I’ve made in my marriage and this first one involved not asking my husband for help. Since my husband and I just celebrated our 23rd anniversary, I think I’ve earned the dubious distinction of knowing what not to do in marriage, and…
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