Author: Melissa

  • Gender roles

    Everyone has different roles they play in life. Parent, spouse, friend, lover, housekeeper, friend, and I could go on and on. How much of the role is based on your…

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  • Renewing Our Marital Friendship

    Post written by marriage columnist Susanne Alexander of Marriage Transformation. As winter begins to fade into springtime, sunlight increases, and new growth begins. Spring can also be a time of…

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  • A Huge Marriage Killer

    Post written by Dr. Corey Allan. Orignally posted November 11, 2010. Wanna know the biggest marriage killer? Fusion. fusion: (noun) The process or result of joining two or more things…

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  • Make love all the time, or de-compartmentalizing sex

    What would life be like if you could make love all the time? When you get right down to it, would you even want to? What we seem to do…

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  • The Art of Gift Giving

    Post written by Gal Josefsberg of Equally Happy. What is a gift? Webster’s defines a gift as: 1 : a notable capacity, talent, or endowment 2 : something voluntarily transferred…

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  • Great in the bedroom but bad outside

    Perhaps there are couples out there who experience great sex in their marriage but outside of the bedroom the connection is not real good. To me, there’s a positive correlation between the…

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  • 3 Ways to Strengthen Your Marriage in a Blended Family

    Post written by Blended Family columnist Melissa Gorzelanczyk of Peace & Projects. The routine of married life can leave little time left to focus on your marriage. In our blended family,…

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  • Marriage help every other day

    Simple Marriage began four years and over 700 articles ago. That’s a lot of information, from a lot of different people, covering a lot of different topics. We’ve also grown…

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  • Marriage help gone bad

    What happens when you hear something you think will help your marriage (or sex life), try it, and it fails? There are lots of voices out there giving advice on…

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  • Why Vacations Make the Best Dates

    Post written by dates and romance columnist Sean Marshall of Family Rocketship. I once interviewed a couple that had been married for more than 50 years. I asked them what…

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  • Having Tenderhearted Talks

    Post written by marriage columnist Susanne Alexander of Marriage Transformation. Store up a heart-full of love from Valentine’s Day and hold it throughout the rest of the year for all…

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  • Valentine's Giveaway: Kindle and Chocolate

    Of all the items I own, one of my favorite is a Kindle. I usually end each day reading, and what better way to have several books in one place…

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