Your relationships can only be as healthy as you are.

Your relationships can only be as healthy as you are.

A person who suffers from a character disorder frequently has significant behavioral or emotional problems that will almost certainly spell disaster for any marital relationships. One of the most difficult aspects of identifying people with character disorders is that they tend to be unusually charming. People with these kinds of disorders tend to lie, cheat, exaggerate, and take advantage of others.

Marriage doesn't just happen! It takes a solid set of decisions, a huge amount of skill and enormous willpower.

A bad marriage is worse than no marriage at all.

In the midst of conflict, there is absolutely nothing that produces gains as dramatically as listening.

In order to know how to talk, you have to know what to say. In order to know what to say, you have to get in touch with those deep-inside-of-you thoughts, feelings, needs, and yearnings. These are the parts of you that must be communicated if you are going to be known.