Love after marriage

Love after marriage can grow or fade. Learn to grow your love.

This section is about how to grow your love, protect it from marriage problems that erode it, and minimize the damage that fights, arguments, quarrels, or spats can do to your love.

How to grow your love

Discover the formula for growing your love. Here are the tips and techniques people use to protect their love and keep it growing. One key is to polish and refresh those memories of happy shared experiences. Grow Your Love

Marriage problems that erode your love

Here is a complete list of the ways people actively — and without meaning to — erode their love, or their partner's love, or both. Identify any of the ways that either you or your partner might use, to chip away at the loving feelings you both shared. Problems in Marriage

Coping with marriage problems to minimize damage

To make your love after marriage grow, you need a strategy that minimizes the damage done by those things that decrease the love. Coping is the answer. Immediately after feelings bad feelings toward your partner or your marriage, we suggest you ask yourself four easy questions, and make one of four wise choices. If you learn and practice these simple coping skills, you can protect your love from erosion by any of the marriage problems listed above. Coping with marriage problems

(For more details on coping, see "How to Cope," which is totally dedicated to the topic of Coping.)

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