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The Importance of Art and Inner Harmony on Long-Term Relationships and Marriage

Art Painting, architecture, the cinema, literature or music — all art forms are important. In no other aspect of our lives are the problems of our age so clearly seen. This is because art is a typically human means of expression and the quintessence of... Read >

Happy and Fulfilling Relationships: We Can Learn Much from Mother Nature

In recent years there has been a growing realization that our misuse of the natural world is likely to rebound on us with disastrous long-term consequences for humankind as a species and, in the short term, for our health and balance as individuals. We ca... Read >

Achieving a Happy Marriage Alongside Work and Careers

Meeting the challenge of marriage and building a lasting relationship ought to go hand in hand with fulfilling the second task, namely the right and duty to work. In addition to the obvious necessity of employment to provide the means of sustaining home a... Read >

Saving Your Marriage from Conflict: Understand the Difference between Emotions and Feelings

In discussing the third cause of conflict, we must first make a clear distinction between positive and negative emotions or feelings. In Adlerian philosophy, emotions are described as negative feelings, and are regarded as negative in the sense that they ... Read >

Saving Your Marriage from Conflict: Keep the Relationship Real

The second important cause of conflict is our abuse of that wonderful faculty, imagination. Imagination enhances our lives by supplementing the inadequacies of the real world, or our experience of it, and can also give us the vision to transform present r... Read >

Saving Your Marriage from Conflict: Resist the Urge to Be Right

Psychotherapists see a great many couples in crisis. In all these troubled marriages, problems boil down to just four main causes. When both partners still wish to stay together and work at the marriage, an understanding of these four problem areas can ai... Read >

Save The Marriage: Could Building Your Faith Help Repair Your Relationship?

The fourth problem affecting marriage today is lack of spiritual insight. This can take the form either of religious conviction, or a general awareness of the spiritual side of our being, for which marriage is so important. What, then, of spirituality now... Read >

Saving Your Marriage: Is There A Lack of Equality In Your Relationship?

The notion that every human being has equal worth seems to express this point more accurately than the frequently used phrases 'equal rights’ or 'equal opportunities'. The equality I am talking about here is not only equality in relation to the law of... Read >

Marriage In Crisis: How Did Things Get So Bad?

Many scholars believe that there are four main reasons for the breakdown of marital harmony. Examining these in greater detail can help us understand the problems facing the institution of marriage today, and enable us to overcome them in our own marriage... Read >