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Over time, small issues can grow to threaten any marriage. For help in resolving potential problems before they cause irreparable damage, select from the topics and links below.

• Children and Marriage

  • Children Bring Changes to A Relationship
  • Do Children Make a Marriage Unhappy?
  • The Impact of Infants on Family Life
  • Marriage Moments Class

• Communication

  • Active Listening: A Communication Tool
  • Can We Talk? Improving Couples Communication (PDF)
  • Families Taking Charge: Talking With Your Spouse
  • Is Your Marriage Relationship Functioning At Full Potential?
  • Learning Languages of Love in Marriage
  • Listening--With Your Heart As Well As Your Ears
  • Making the Most of Your Marriage
  • The Marriage Dance

• Conflict Management

  • "Fighting Fair" in Marriage
  • Anger and Marriage
  • Conflict Management and Resolution - Can We Agree?
  • Dealing With Anger in a Marriage
  • Dealing with Conflict in Marriage
  • Dealing with Couples' Anger
  • Getting Past Problems to Solutions in Marriage
  • Manage Anger Through Family Meetings
  • Managing Conflict Successfully

• Enhancing Your Marriage

  • A Series of Articles on Developing Loving Relationships
  • Do Couples Who Play Together, Stay Together?
  • Factors that Make a Difference in Marital Success
  • Keep the Glow Going in Your Marriage
  • Kindness Builds Strong Marriages
  • Making Wedding Anniversaries Meaningful
  • Putting Some Spark Back in Your Marriage
  • Strengthening the Couple Relationship
  • Take Specific Steps to Nurture Love in Marriage
  • The Wedding Anniversary: Make it a Big Thing
  • Traditions, A Foundation for Strong Families
  • World Wide Marriage Encounter Home Page

• Marriage Across the Life Cycle

  • "Honey, I'm Home!" - For Good: The Transition to Retirement
  • Adjustments in the Early Marriage Years
  • Family Relationships in Later Life

• Dealing With Difficult Situations

  • Coping with Grief as a Couple
  • For Better, For Worse
  • Healing from Infidelity
  • In-law Trouble Often Can Be Prevented with Cooperation
  • Making Relationships Work in Difficult Times
  • Marriage Burnout
  • Spouses are Helpful in Transcending Traumatic Childhoods
  • The Unexpected Legacy of Divorce

• Divorce

  • Does Divorce Make People Happy?: Findings from a Study of Unhappy Marriages
  • Marriage Crossroads
  • The Unexpected Legacy of Divorce

• Facts About Marriage

  • Marriage Can be Good for Health
  • National Marriage Trends

• Marriage Research

  • Five Marriage Myths, Six Marriage Benefits
  • A Glimpse at the Marriage & Divorce Statistics for Utah
  • Cohabitation, Marriage, Divorce and Remarriage in the United States
  • Does Divorce Make People Happy?: Findings from a Study of Unhappy Marriages
  • Linking Religion, Divorce Rate Faulty
  • Number, Timing, and Duration of Marriages and Divorces: 1996
  • The Costly Consequences of Divorce
  • The National Marriage Report
  • Time, Sex and Money: The First Five Years of Marriage
  • Marriage in Utah Study

• Money Management

  • 10 Money-Talk Tips for Families
  • A Spending Plan
  • Budgeting Systems When There Are Two Earners in the Household
  • Budgeting: The Basics and Beyond
  • Can You 'Afford' to be Happy?
  • Home Equity Loans: A Blessing or a Curse?
  • Making Cents: Money Matters Can Be a Major Source of Conflict
  • Making Financial Plans Together
  • Managing Two Incomes: Yours, Mine and Ours
  • Money Problems
  • PowerPay Debt Reduction Computer Program
  • Your Money Matters (PDF)

• Professional Help

  • Therapist Locator.net

• Other Resources

  • Weber County Healthy Marriage Coalition
  • Free — Utah Marriage Handbook
  • RELATE Questionnaire
  • Classes

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