by Ramona Zabriskie | Feb 6, 2018 | Building a Partnership, Building a Relationship, Identifying the Problems, Increasing Unity, Living With a Man, Managing Conflict, Preventing Conflict, Recruiting His Help, Rectifying the Wrongs, Surviving the Tough Times, Uncovering the Reasons
There were still a lot of empty rows on the plane, but I’d flown sold-out Southwest flights often enough to know that it’s better to grab the aisle seat in …
by Ramona Zabriskie | Jan 16, 2018 | Building a Partnership, Generating Real Intimacy, Helping Him Find a Dream, Helping Him Open Up, Increasing Unity, Inspiring Him, Leaving a Legacy, Maintaining Your Vision, Managing Conflict, Surviving the Tough Times, Why Marriage
As my readers and students well know, I love collecting examples of Grand Marriage: romances that are, or will be, remembered and influential for good, for generations. Some of …
by Ramona Zabriskie | Nov 22, 2017 | Caring for Yourself, Creating Your Own Happiness, Keeping the Magic, Leaving a Legacy, Maintaining Your Vision
November is clarity—in the air and of the heart—because, just for a season, we take a deep breath and let mental dust settle, counting our blessings instead of wishing...
by Ramona Zabriskie | Oct 12, 2017 | Building a Relationship, Caring for Yourself, Creating Your Own Happiness, Identifying the Problems, Maintaining Your Vision, Managing Conflict, Preventing Conflict, Rectifying the Wrongs
“If women were convinced that a day off or an hour of solitude were a reasonable ambition, they would find a way of attaining it. As it is, they feel …
by Ramona Zabriskie | Oct 7, 2017 | Caring for Yourself, Creating Your Own Happiness, Identifying the Problems, Managing Conflict, Rectifying the Wrongs, Uncovering the Reasons
I once sat across the table listening to an acquaintance spew fury and venom at me about her husband. Listening to women’s marital frustrations is a big part of my …
by Ramona Zabriskie | Sep 7, 2017 | Increasing Unity, Leaving a Legacy, Maintaining Your Vision, Surviving the Tough Times
“No man knows what the wife of his bosom is until he has gone with her through the fiery trials of this world.” Washington Irving, American author One day, over …
by Ramona Zabriskie | Aug 23, 2017 | Creating Your Own Happiness, Identifying the Problems, Rectifying the Wrongs, Uncovering the Reasons, Understanding Men
By Emily Belnap Does resentment resonate with you? For me, it’s that icky, awful, angry, “why do I have to do it all myself?” feeling. This feeling is so familiar …
by Ramona Zabriskie | Jul 18, 2017 | Building a Friendship, Building a Partnership, Grand Marriages, Increasing Unity, Keeping the Magic, Leaving a Legacy
I was listening to Nat King Cole’s “Too Young” this week, and the lyrics zinged me: They try to tell us we’re too young Too young to really be in …
by Ramona Zabriskie | Jul 12, 2017 | Identifying the Problems, Managing Conflict, Preventing Conflict, Rectifying the Wrongs, Uncovering the Reasons
On our first night in Honolulu (we’d been married five years), we had dinner at an outdoor table at a Waikiki Beach restaurant. It was the beginning—and the end—of a …
by Ramona Zabriskie | May 25, 2017 | Helping Him Open Up, Identifying the Problems, Preventing Conflict, Uncovering the Reasons, Understanding Men
In a recent Wife for Life University class, a student excitedly reported a breakthrough conversation she had recently shared with her husband. I asked what she had learned from the …