Your Marriage Needs These 7 Personality Traits If You Expect It to Last a Long Time.

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Married life is not easy and if you and your spouse have been together for a long while, you already know this. Love is not the only thing that keeps healthy relationships going.

I’ve seen couples who are similar to each other and couples who are complete opposites have successful lasting relationships and marriages.

In each relationship, these 7 personality traits are vital and a couple that has them will have a healthy relationship — and long-lasting marriage.

Original article appears courtesy of YourTango.

5 Ways to Know If Your Relationship Is More Than Just About Sex

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When it comes to transferring your relationship from sex partner to marriage material and a potential partner for life, you will have to dive deep and see if this man has the ability to be your future husband. Even though sex is usually the initial place where a man begins to connect with a woman, the both of you will have to make sure it’s deeper than the surface.

You will have to connect mentally, physically, spiritually, and emotionally.

So in order to figure out how to know if a guy likes you for more than just sex and if your sexual escapades are moving in the direction towards love check out this article for this YourTango article 5 Ways To Know If Your Relationship Has Potential (Or If It’s Just About The Sex)

4 Lists That Can Save Your Relationship

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Before you drop that guy or girl due to boredom, examine how you are spending your time as a couple.

It maybe due to the fact that you have run into a routine just like Danielle Colley did which almost doomed her relationship.

What can help you get out of the rut is creating a series of lists that may put the energy you need back into the relationship and provide a closeness that’s second to none. A list like this can help remind you  what really matters, and help maintain positivity, clarity, and peace amongst the craziness of everyday life.

So as the weekend is approaching, you and your partner should sit down individually and create these four lists. By doing this exercise you may find some similar interests that you never knew you had. The four lists are as follows:

  1. Lists of Books you might read.- this list will give you different topics to talk about. You will get a perspective about a person you never expected when you are talking about a fictional story as opposed to what’s happening in social media.
  2. List of activities you would like to do together – according to a recent study 94% of couples  are happier when they spend quality time together versus 43% of couples that don’t. By having a list for activities that you would like to do will keep you from doing the same thing every weekend.
  3. List of new things you would like to learn – will keep you brain sharp as you progress in your marriage.
  4. List of places you would like to see – this will help you create long-lasting memories as you explore new places. Traveling to other countries not only give you the opportunity to see new things as a couple, it also gives you the opportunity to explore on you own.

 

So before you head out to another movie, or dinner, create that list so you can put that extra energy you need back into your relationship.

If you need so help brainstorming some ideas, or if you are stuck in a rut for some other reason, contact me for FREE 30-minute consultation at info@strive2succeedcoaching.com.

7 ways Dr. Maya Angelou’s poems inspires you to Love

 

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On Wednesday, Dr. Maya Angelou at the age of 86 passed away. As a poet, author, playwright, director, performer, actress, professor, producer, singer and civil right’s activist, she inspired most of us to live our best, strive to be the best and most of all love. Here are 7 ways Dr. Maya Angelou inspired us to LOVE.

Here on the pulse of this new day
You may have the grace to look up and out
And into your sister’s eyes, into
Your brother’s face, your country
And say simply
Very simply
With hope
Good morning. 

 

On the Pulse in the Morning

 

Give me your hand

Make room for me
to lead and follow
you
beyond this rage of poetry.

Let others have
the privacy of
touching words
and love of loss
of love.

For me
Give me your hand
.

 

A Conceit

 

Alone, all alone

Nobody, but nobody

Can make it out here alone.

 

Alone

Lift up your hearts.
Each new hour holds new chances
For new beginnings
.

 

The Rock Cries Out for Us Today

Men themselves have wondered
What they see in me.
They try so much
But they can’t touch
My inner mystery.
When I try to show them
They say they still can’t see.
I say,
It’s in the arch of my back,
The sun of my smile,
The ride of my breasts,
The grace of my style.
I’m a woman

Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,
That’s me.

 

 

Phenomenal Woman

 

Love arrives
and in its train come ecstasies
old memories of pleasure
ancient histories of pain.
Yet if we are bold,
love strikes away the chains of fear
from our souls.

We are weaned from our timidity
In the flush of love’s light
we dare be brave
And suddenly we see
that love costs all we are
and will ever be.
Yet it is only love
which sets us free. 

 

Touched by an Angel

 

“Have enough courage to trust love one more time. And always one more time.”  

 

 

Fun Friday – The reason to take the 5 for $5 Admiration Challenge

On this Fun Friday, here is the major reason why husbands will have to take the 5 for $5 Admiration Challenge this Mother’s Day. You can’t compete with Lil Joey!

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To all my iLoveStrong Mother’s, have a great Mother’s Day!

Coach Keith

Fun Friday – Too Much Social Media Could Hurt your Marriage!

Bernie Hogan of the University of Oxford’s Internet Institute said in a statement at the Annual Conference of the British Psychological Society.

He found that more media use in love can be a sign of a strong marriage — but only up until a certain point. There seems to be “a cut-off point” after which the upkeep of so many separate channels gets cumbersome and might undermine relationship ties.

On this Fun Friday..Here is a couple that have obviously reached their breaking point with the use of social media.

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Fun Friday – Mike Rice Treatment!

If you have been listening, or reading the news lately, Mike Rice, former Rutgers basketball coach was fired for a video tape that showed him verbally and physically abusing his players.

On this Fun Friday, imagine husbands if you came home it got the Mike Rice treatment from your spouse? It would look a little bit like this?

How would you handle it?

 

Have a great weekend.

Coach Keith