As a new mom I didn’t know when my instinct was kicking in, I’m not even sure how should it feel. One time when I noticed my daughter who was slightly bending down with her hands on her knees — a pose which she does not usually do — I decided not to fuss over […]
Marriage
-- 4 Boundaries in Husband’s Female Friendships
-- Listen to your Maternal and Wifely Instinct
-- To Forgive and Forget is a Harmful Advice
-- Infidelity Effect: Symptoms of Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome
-- How to cope with infidelity flashbacks
-- The affair story : Do you need to know the details about it?
-- Is My Marriage Worth Fighting For After He Cheated On Me?
-- Emotionally dependent: Do you love your husband more than yourself?
-- Emotionally dependent: Do you love your husband more than yourself?
-- Common experiences of emotionally abused Filipina Wives
-- Silent Treatment in Marriage
-- Should You Stay In a Toxic Marriage for the Kids?
-- Law Protecting Women and their Children Against Partner Abuse
-- Signs Of An Emotionally and Verbally Abusive Relationship
-- Why Your Husband Fights, Walks Out, or Ignores You When Confronted?
-- Hurt and Angry at Husband: How to Let Him Know?
-- Two Types of Marital Problems
-- How to Deal with Unsolvable Marital Problems
-- Know each other’s love languages
-- Deepen your Intimacy: 5 Levels of Intimate Communication
-- REFLECTION: The Pimple Mark Syndrome in Marriage
-- REFLECTION: Confiding to your spouse
-- Love Map: Know your partner inside out
-- Learn the Secrets of a Fascinating Wife
-- REFLECTION: Know Each Other’s Love Languages
-- REFLECTION: Admire your man, it’s good for your marriage
-- REFLECTION: How To Change Your Man
-- REFLECTION: Complacency -- One Major Marriage Enemy
-- REFLECTION: On Being Boyfriend-Girlfriend Forever
-- REFLECTION: I’m a wife first, a mom second
-- Emotionally Distant Husband
-- 6 Common Experiences of Filipina Breadwinner Wives
-- Wife’s Brothers are Dependent on us
-- “Husband not interested on what I share”
-- The frustrated wife and the unresponsive husband
-- Wife and Husband Have Different Financial Goals
-- “How can I help my husband change his ways?”
-- “My dream career or my husband?”
4 Boundaries in Husband’s Female Friendships
Should you allow your husband to cultivate friendships with females? Whether you answer yes or no, friendships with colleagues of opposite sex is inevitable, especially in professional, businesses, or community settings. The question now is not whether these friendships should exist, but rather what boundaries should be observed to ensure they remain appropriate? How can […]
Hubby said, “Please say, ‘please'”
One morning as I was mopping the floor with all the sweat dripping all over my skin, hubby went down from our bedroom with Y. Forgetting to bring our baskets of laundry upstairs, I immediately asked him, “Paki-akyat ng baskets tapos paki empty na rin after.” Then without preamble hubby answered, “Wala man lang kalambing […]
Making Love: Spontaneous or Scheduled
During a group date with my two wife friends (together with our husbands with a conversation of their own), one of our topics has drifted to our sex lives. Let’s call my friends Abby and Liz, not their real names, but close to it I guess. I found out that Abby and I prefer a […]
“If I am upset, let me be upset.”
Just this past Thursday, I lashed out at hubby because of some project with our organization that he hasn’t settled yet. I have been reminding him for the past months to finish it, but nothing’s progressing since the last time he attended to it. And since I’m the wife, it’s me whom the leaders keep […]
On Being Boyfriend-Girlfriend Forever
Meet the couples mission of the Feast Pasig Couples Ministry. One of the couples here is the Villaruz couple, bro Junie and sis Ana who are both in their forties. They have three girls where two of which are high schoolers and one a youngster. One night after our couple’s caring group meeting, right after […]
Know each other’s love languages
Last week, hubby expressed his concern to me, telling me that I’ve been fixated with my blog. At first I didn’t get it. What’s the concern about when I always give my undivided attention to him and to our little girl? As I do my self-reflection, I recounted that there’s no project of his which […]
Wife, take care of your physical self
When I was watching one of Joel Osteen’s talk (a renowned preacher and writer in US) about husbands and wives, he shared that one time, while he was staring at his wife who was looking all sloppy and disheveled at that time, he asked himself, “Who is this woman walking around inside my room?” […]
Husband-Wife Mastermind Group
“Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their labor: If either of them falls down, one can help the other up.” – Ecclesiastes 4:9-10 Recently, Melbert was invited by a group of internet marketers to join their mastermind group, who meets everY first Saturday of the month. To my […]
Two Types of Marital Problems: Solvable and Perpetual
As I was reading the book The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work I learned an invaluable insight which made me look into the problems that my husband and I are experiencing. According to the book, there are two kinds of marital problems. These are solvable problems and perpetual problems. I. Solvable Problems Solvable problems […]