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Having a Good Relationship With Your Partner’s Extended Family is Important to Your Partner and Will Contribute to a Healthy Marriage or Committed Relationship. Your
This exercise is designed to help you and your partner calmly and respectfully agree on a plan of action or a decision when initially there are opposing points of view.
As a couple, important decisions should be made together. You and your partner are of equal importance, and you both need to have decision-making and veto power over important matters.
Trust is an essential component in a healthy marriage or committed relationship. Secrecy destroys that trust! When you keep a secret from your partner you are excluding him or her from your life and in particular the part of your life that impact upon your partner.
Make your blended family a success — be a great stepparent Blended families are complex. Knowing how to deal with your stepchild(ren) is essential to
Emotional Closeness 101 Emotional closeness in your committed relationship gives it life! Make sure your marriage or committed relationship has a healthy dose of fun,
Loving and Caring Behaviors that Make Your Relationship Happy Getting married or being in a committed relationship is voluntary. Staying married or in a committed
Feelings often lead to action. Sometimes the opposite is also true. Try letting your positive actions lead to positive feelings. Behave lovingly with your partner
Knowing each other is one of the most important skills of all the relationship-building skills available to committed couples. This relationship-building skill is well understood
