HowTos Index
How To Survive the Second Half of Your Marriage
As your nest starts to empty out or refill, you will find yourselves realizing that your roles are changing. New challenges, new irritations, new frustrations, new discoveries await.
How To Make Mutual Decisions
As a married couple, you will make many decisions throughout your marriage. Make sure that these decisions are mutual decisions. Here's how to make mutual decisions.
How To Stand Up for YOUR Marriage -- Do Yourself a Favor and Speak Positive
Do you ever find yourself talking negatively about your marriage or your spouse because others are discussing how horrid their marriages are? Marriage gets a bad reputation because people don't stand up for marriage. Do yourself a favor. Take a stand. Make a difference.
How To Propose Marriage -- Ideas and Tips for Marriage Proposals
When you propose marriage, make sure to keep it simple and remember you are creating a memory to last a lifetime. Marriage proposals should be private, too!
How To Get Married at Sea
Do you want a romantic wedding at sea? If so, be prepared to jump through many hoops before you can have an official marriage.
How To Recognize Soul Mate Characteristics in Your Marriage
If you believe in the soul mate concept, there may be times you question your marriage. Here are soul mate characteristics that can be in a marriage.
How To Plan a Romantic Dinner at Home for Your Spouse
Remember that you don't have to have a special occasion to host a romantic dinner for your spouse. Set aside the excuse you can't cook.
How To Handle a Crisis Together
Every marriage will go through times of crisis. Some marriages will be strengthened by a crisis, others will be destroyed. Here's help in avoiding having your marriage relationship hurt by loss and devastation.
How To Be a Super Couple -- Have It All As a Married Couple
Here's help in being a super couple and having a successful marriage at the same time.
How To Have Quality Time in Your Marriage
Don't let your job or the kids or volunteer work or time with friends and extended family interfere with your marriage. Here's how to make quality time for one another.
How To Keep Your Sex Life Alive in Your Marriage
Here's how to have a healthy sex life in your marriage.
How To Fight Fair in Your Marriage -- Conflict Management in Marriage
All married couples have arguments, or rather fights. How they fight is the key to whether or not they will have a successful, long term marriage. Fighting fairly in a marriage is a critical skill that all couples must learn.
How To Share What is in Your Heart With Your Spouse
By sharing what is in your heart, your feelings, with your spouse, you can achieve deeper intimacy. Here is a simple how to on how to share your feelings.
How To Know if You Are Being Abused
Domestic violence occurs when a dominating spouse, through emotional or physical abuse, creates an environment of fear that prevents the other spouse from freely choosing how to live their life. Here are questions to ask yourself to determine if you are being abused.
How To Know if You Are an Abusive Spouse
Here are questions to ask yourself to determine if you are abusive towards your spouse and children.
How To Cope When You've Learned Your Spouse Is Unfaithful -- How to Respond
You just learned that your spouse has been unfaithful. The news of the infidelity has hit you like a ton of bricks. You have hope that your marriage can survive your spouse cheating on you. But you still fill sick inside when you think about the affair. What can you do to get beyond the hurt, forgive your unfaithful spouse, and save your marriage?
How To Know When to Call It Quits When You Wonder if You Should Stay or Go
How do you know when to throw in the towel or when your marriage has reached the point of no return? Ask yourself some key questions before making the decision to file for divorce.
How To Survive the First Two Years of Marriage
New studies show that couples who lose the romance in their marriage during the first two years are more likely to eventually divorce.
How To Know if Your Common-Law Marriage Is Recognized
Common-law marriage is not as common as many people believe. Living together does not mean you have a common-law marriage. There are strict requirements that have to be met for common-law marriages to be considered valid. Additionally, only a few states in the United States recognize common-law marriages.
How To Rebuild Trust
When your spouse has done something to break the trust between two, rebuilding trust in your marriage can be difficult. Here are suggestions on how to on rebuild trust.
How To Know if Your Spouse Is Having a Cyber Affair
Are you concerned and suspicious that your spouse is having a cyber affair? If your spouse's behavior has changed in these ways, then there could be a problem with cyber sex.
How To Survive When Your Spouse Has the Flu
Your best friend in the world, your lover, your life-long mate, has been hit with the flu and just turned into a whimpering, demanding, annoying stranger. This doesn't mean the end of your marriage. Read these tips on surviving having a spouse down with the flu!
How To Enjoy the Holidays as an Interfaith Couple
If you are in an interfaith marriage, it is possible to have meaningful holiday celebrations if you keep your lines of communication open and remember to be flexible. Here are more suggestions for interfaith marriage holiday survival.
How To Survive the Holidays
For many married couples, holiday seasons can bring stress, miscommunication, and hurt feelings into their relationship. Here are tips and suggestions for surviving the holidays and keeping your marriage together at the same time.
How To Cope After the Death of Your Spouse
Here's coping suggestions to help you after the death of your spouse.