10 Tips for a Healthier Marriage

1. Stay close to God through reading His word daily and in prayer both individually and as a couple.
2. Make your spouse your best friend. Apply all levels of love to your marriage.
3. Take time to talk about your feelings.
4. Be in tune with you own needs (especially the emotional needs) and express them to your spouse.
5. Keep in mind that through your wedding vows, your spouse has agreed to help you meet your needs, not predict them.
6. Accept your spouse's limitations as well as their assets.
7. Accept that a marriage will have times of conflict.
8. When a conflict emerges, it is usually not about the subject that started the conflict (example: coming home late).
9. Marital conflicts generally occur when emotional needs are not met over a period of time or when one spouse feels unimportant to the other.
10. Use healthy conflict resolution techniques.