How to Show Your Spouse Love and Support

Whether it's work, school, or new endeavors in life...your spouse needs to feel your love and support. With your added help they can rise to their full potential and reach their goals! Here are a few tips on how to help and show your support:

How to Handle Stress As a Couple

1. Take a Deep Breath and Think

When a stress event occurs in a relationship, it is easy for the wife to get emotional and the husband to work towards coming to an immediate solution. It is necessary for both parts of the couple to take a step back, breathe, calm down, and think about what the options are. This way, the couple is able to see the big picture clearly and is able to make the appropriate decisions. 

Things I Learned From My Parents

This is a post penned by Ashley at Making Our Marx, talking about what she has learned from her parents and their 25 years of marriage!

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Today my parents are celebrating 25 years of marriage.

In our day, I'd say this is a pretty big freaking deal!

I love them so much, and I'm so blessed. I didn't even realize how blessed I was until high school, when I heard people talking about their parents fighting or getting divorced. I didn't know all couples weren't madly in love like Allison and John. They are the best examples to me! I consider myself lucky-I've been able to observe their habits and interactions for the past 22 years, so I think I entered my marriage with some pretty good ideas of what to do. Here are some of the observations I've taken of my parents and their happy marriage.