A number of factors help keep marriages and families functioning in a healthy way. And having a close relationship with another couple is one of those factors. Research continues to show that couples who have a close relationship with another couple have stronger and happier marriages and families for several reasons:
Is yours a happy marriage? How positive or negative is your relationship? Do you think your marriage is better or worse than most? A recent CNN article entitled What’s fueling Bible Belt divorces, based on recently released US Census Bureau statistics about marriages and divorces, cites some interesting statistics and also makes some interesting speculations. …
How family problems get started. How family problems get worse. We’ve covered some tough ground in my previous two posts. So, is there hope? How do family problems get better? What helps a family recover when bad stuff happens? What are the keys to family resilience? We all know that bad things happen to families. …
In a previous post, How Family Problems Develop, I described the factors that are present as problems develop in the family. Two paths exist once a problem is in place. Either the problem (and the family) get better or they don’t. But what is it that keeps problems around and even makes them worse? Ingredients …
Every family has problems. That’s no surprise. And there are basically two outcomes: things (and the family) either get better or they don’t. That’s basically no surprise either. But what makes up a family problem? What helps families recover from problems? And what factors keep a family stuck? I’ll take a look at those questions …