Supporting Your Marriage or Relationship
Sometimes even when we’re in the best of relationships, we can still use a few ideas to support us in a particular situation. We’ve collected resources together on the following topics.
Relationship Strategies
Positive relationship strategies, building your relationship, tackling conflict, intimacy, dealing with stress, and goal-setting together.
Commitment
Exploring what commitment is, and how a fear of commitment might be approached.
Communication
What communication is, how it can help your relationship, looking at different communication styles, and tips on effective listening.
Dealing with Infidelity
The implications that temptation has for our relationships, coping with an affair, some myths about infidelity, emotional infidelity, and moving on.
Breaking Up/Divorcing Well
Figuring out if it’s over, things to know when a relationship breaks down, separating and divorcing, and moving on after a break-up.
Beginning a Relationship
Starting a relationship on the right foot, and thinking about living together.
Changing Times
Turning points in life, dealing with change, being partners as well as new parents, seeing each other through ‘empty nest’ syndrome, and retiring together.
Formalising Relationships
Legal requirements for civil unions and marriages, and some things to think about in remarriage.
Finding Balance
Finding balance – in life, and between your beliefs.
Finances
Reasons couples fight about money – and how to address them, some financial mistakes couples make.
Co-parenting
Thinking about starting a family, maintaining your relationship as a couple when you’re also parents – and parenting together when you’re no longer a couple.
Getting Help
Resources that are available for troubled relationships, warning signs of problems, and building a better relationship.
