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Bryan Ayers - EzineArticles.com Expert Author  

Bryan Ayers has studied and taught on family relationships since 1995, including authoring the on-line seminar, "Cracking the Communication Code in your Christian Marriage." He and his wife began their marriage journey more than 20 years ago. Their seven children create quite a household.

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  • Three Benefits of Commitment in Your Marriage
    [Relationships:Marriage] If you want your marriage to thrive, you have to have the level of commitment equal to the task. We typically start out together with love. Add commitment and you will see benefits beyond good feelings. Here are three of them in fact.


  • Why Communication is So Important in Marriage
    [Relationships:Marriage] You cannot expect your marriage to be good if you do not work at it. That doesn't sound fun, does it? Look, marriage can go beyond fun because it can be the most meaningful relationship that you have, but it does have to be cultivated. Let's walk together through three important reasons why communication is worth working on in your marriage.


  • Marriage Help - Expecting the Ideal Marriage
    [Relationships:Marriage] Everyone wants the perfect marriage and the perfect spouse. Expectations, especially unmet expectations, can be explosive in marriage. Let me help you with some tips for dealing with expectations in your marriage.


  • Christian Marriage Help - The Gift of Unconditional Love
    [Relationships:Marriage] Love is more than feeling. Love is something we commit to and something we do. Here are some secrets to giving the gift of unconditional love to your spouse.


  • Marriage Help - Three Habits to Avoid If Your Want a Happy Marriage
    [Relationships:Marriage] We marry because we want to go through life's challenges and victories with someone who cares about us, but we sometimes unknowingly are bringing destruction to our marriage by our own actions. If you want a happy marriage then here are three habits to definitely stay away from.


  • Marriage Help - How to Get on the Road to a Better Marriage
    [Relationships:Marriage] Don't end up in a lonely or bitter marriage. You will get that if you just ignore problems imagining that they will take care of themselves. You need to take care of it, but you need to do it right. Let me show you some ways to work through the tough issues towards a better marriage.


  • Be a Husband Who Leads in Your Christian Marriage
    [Relationships:Marriage] Sometimes you as a husband in a Christian marriage are slow at leading in your marriage. You've thought about it. Your spouse has mentioned it to you. Why does it not happen?


  • Three Attitudes That Will Destroy Your Christian Marriage
    [Relationships:Marriage] Attitudes drive our actions and actions help or hinder our marriage. Don't let any of these three attitudes derail your marriage.


  • Christian Marriage Help - Getting to Unity After Marriage Disagreements
    [Relationships:Marriage] Do you have a pattern to help you through marriage disagreements? Challenges that come to your marriage really take their toll because it is the most intense relationship that you have. Let me pass some thoughts by you to see how they help to get you through your marriage difficulties.


  • Christian Marriage Help - Getting Victory Over the Struggles in Your Marriage
    [Relationships:Marriage] I'll bet that even your Christian marriage has its difficult moments. Since that's the case a little help never hurts. Check out these helpful tips to get through your struggles together and build a stronger marriage.


  • Christian Marriage Help - Getting Out of the Selfishness Trap Before it Ruins Your Marriage
    [Relationships:Marriage] Selfishness leads you in the very opposite direction than you want to go in your marriage. Marriage is about oneness and togetherness. Here are some ways to get out of the selfish lifestyle and become a team player in your marriage.


  • Christian Marriage Communication - Getting Your Spouse to Understand You
    [Relationships:Marriage] How many times have you walked away from a conversation with your spouse only to realize the next moment that they did not understand a thing you just said? Let's end that battle once and for all by learning the art of speaking to be understood. Here are some great truths to accomplish just that.


  • Christian Marriage Advice - How to Change Your Spouse
    [Relationships:Marriage] Do you find yourself trying to fix your spouse everyday because, well, they need lots of work? Maybe your spouse is constantly pointing how you should change. Managing the way we work on each other is very important. If you can do it well, the process is beneficial. If you do it poorly, you will be damaging your marriage. Check out these three important ingredients to a mutually beneficial strategy to helping your spouse overcome their weaknesses.


  • Christian Marriage Help - Three Mindsets For a Healthy Marriage
    [Relationships:Marriage] Your marriage is guided by your mindsets from previous experience or what you were taught. Some of them are helpful; leading to a meaningful relationship. Some of them are destructive. Let me share with you three mindsets that I have found to be very beneficial in building a great marriage.


  • Christian Marriage Advice - How to Compromise in a Healthy Way
    [Relationships:Marriage] Winning an argument in marriage may not be so good for your relationship. Some people have a win at all costs attitude even in their marriage. I invite you to think about some ways to work through the issues and save your marriage at the same time.


  • Christian Marriage Communication - Three Approaches to Effective Communication in Your Marriage
    [Relationships:Marriage] In all the chaos of life, we need peace in our home and marriage. Too often our marriage is riddled with conflict because of poor communication. Let me give you three approaches that will get you out of the conflict rut.


  • Christian Marriage Help - Three Marriage Killers to Avoid
    [Relationships:Marriage] I hate to be someone who tells people to stop something, but I don't want you to continue ruining your marriage either. These three things, and there are more than these, will definitely put your marriage on the rocks. Let me help guide you into a meaningful Christian marriage.


  • Christian Marriage Help - Three Secrets to Overcoming Disagreements in Your Marriage
    [Relationships:Marriage] Chaos usually follows disagreements in marriages where a couple doesn't have a handle on a good process. It doesn't have to be that way for you. You could master some good relationship practices and overcome the chaos of painful arguments. Let me help you with some secrets to handling disagreements in your Christian Marriage.


  • Christian Marriage Advice - Three Ingredients to Achieving Oneness in Your Marriage
    [Relationships:Marriage] Oneness in marriage happens because you want it bad enough to work for it. God desires it, you desire it, go for it. If you don't go for it, you'll have to settle for mere existing together. Discover three ingredients for oneness in your Christian marriage right here, and then enjoy the fruit of God's blessings together.


  • Christian Marriage Advice - Three Ways to Keep Your Marriage on Track
    [Relationships:Marriage] If you are rolling with the tide of life you might get caught in the flow of being lazy in your marriage. If you get lazy, you're in danger of getting off track. Discover three ways to keep your Christian marriage on track and out of the danger zone.


  • Honoring God in Your Christian Marriage
    [Relationships:Marriage] Christian marriage means that couples choose to live in a way that honors God. The way we find out what God's plans and desires are is to read the Bible. Let me show you a few ways that you can honor God today in your marriage.


  • Christian Marriage Advice - 3 Ways to Understanding Your Spouse in Your Christian Marriage
    [Relationships:Marriage] If you don't really care about your Christian marriage, then don't read this. I want to help you to improve your marriage in every way, and in this article I'm giving you three ways to help you better understand your spouse. If you want to help your marriage become more meaningful, then read on and take action.


  • Christian Marriage Advice - Reconnecting With Your Wife
    [Relationships:Marriage] As husbands we often get very involved in the tasks of life and forget to build up our wives as a person and to work on strengthening our marriage relationship. Let me give you a few tools to help you in reconnecting with your wife and being a success in your marriage.


  • Christian Marriage Communication - Three Ways to Better Understanding
    [Relationships:Marriage] Off and on our marriage relationship seems to have a big gap in it. You want to close the gap, and stay close. I am offering you some helpful tips to gain understanding of your spouse, and realize the warm marriage that you desire.


  • Marriage Advice - Reconnecting With Your Husband
    [Relationships:Marriage] Why do husbands get a little behind when it comes to the emotional needs of his wife? There are there ways to draw him back into a mutually beneficial relationship if you are willing to put some effort into it. Let me help you find a deeper relationship in your marriage.


  • Marriage Help - Three "Must Have" Marriage Communication Skills
    [Relationships:Marriage] Marriage often turns sour because people lose their competency in communicating or maybe they never really did it well in the first place. Good communication is essential to a happy marriage where there is mutual understanding, positive affection and growing oneness. So here are three skills to improve upon in order to have deeper, fulfilling relationship with the one you married.


  • Marriage - Relief From the Cold Shoulder Problem
    [Relationships:Marriage] Are you feeling that disconnection between you and your spouse? You might even be employing the cold shoulder yourself. We both know that a plan like that leads to nowhere. Let me help you overcome the cold shoulder with some helpful guiding principles. Read on, and I'll share them with you.


  • Is Counseling the Best Thing For Your Marriage?
    [Relationships:Marriage] When your marriage is in trouble, where do you turn to for help? You may not be able to afford or even want to go to traditional counseling. Is there any other way? I'd like to share with you other ways to find help, so you can get your marriage back on track.


  • Three Ways to Warm Up Your Chilly Marriage
    [Relationships:Marriage] Nearly everything in our life becomes affected when we feel our marriage is struggling, and it is work to turn it around again. What do we need to warm it up again? That's a big question, and needs an answer specific to your situation. Some helpful principles, however, are universal to all situations. Let me share three ways that will be helpful to you.


  • Four Essentials to Pulling Your Marriage Back Together
    [Relationships:Marriage] Our whole life becomes miserable when our marriage is struggling, and it is work to turn it around again. What do we need to pull it back together? That's a big question, and needs an answer specific to your situation. Some helpful principles, however, are universal to all situations. Let me share four things that will be helpful to you.


  • Reconnecting With Your Spouse For a Better Marriage
    [Relationships:Marriage] So, you feel that disconnection between you and your spouse? You might have even let it go for a while. We both know that a plan like that leads to nowhere. Let me help you reconnect with your spouse with a guiding principle that escapes most couples. Read on, and I'll share it with you.


  • Three Guidelines For Beginning Change in Your Marriage
    [Relationships:Marriage] The question is not does your marriage need improvement. The question is, "How do you begin?" Our approach to change and conflict in marriage is extremely important if we want a good outcome. Let me help you with that.


  • Can I Ever Be Happy Again in My Marriage?
    [Relationships:Marriage] Marriage is meant to be our closest relationship. When it loses its fire or becomes a drain on us what do we do? Begin to realign your marriage with help from a friend of your marriage here.


  • Having a Better Marriage by Really Understanding Your Spouse
    [Relationships:Marriage] "Why can't we seem to communicate properly in our marriage?" We all ask that question at some time or another. Before we can communicate effectively, we must lay the ground work. Proper understanding provides the groundwork. Discover what you are missing here.


  • Kindness Conquers - The Number One Enemy in Marriage
    [Relationships:Marriage] The work that goes in to keeping a good marriage is an everyday challenge. Discover the right place to keep your focus, so you and your spouse can have a meaningful, enjoyable marriage.


  • Believing the Best in the Person You Married
    [Relationships:Marriage] Often marriage partners think that all the problems in their marriage are the spouse's fault. Everyone has faults. Is there anything that you can do to help improve your marriage? Get some tips from this article and watch for good results.


  • Marriage - Love is Patient
    [Relationships:Marriage] The more a couple focuses on each other's faults the more they lose the ability to stay patient with each other. However, because of love, a couple can gain the ability to patiently overlook faults and make allowances for differences.


  • Appreciation in Marriage - I Value You
    [Relationships:Marriage] If you want to strengthen your marriage, you have to use the right tools. Some trendy advice might get you by, but the solid answers will get you where you want to be. Appreciation might sound easy, but it is solid. Verbally appreciating your spouse will benefit you both. Find out how here.


  • Financial Strategies For the Christian Family
    [Home-and-Family] Are you going to make it through the financial crunch? God has given us principles to live in financial stability. Dig past the symptoms to the problem, and the answers get clear.


  • Firm Ground For the Christian Marriage
    [Relationships:Marriage] There are elements of the Christian marriage that stand the test of time, proving their value to all who dare to live them. Will you dare to be one of those who find the blessing of living by God's design for the Christian marriage?


  • Are You Ruining Your Marriage?
    [Relationships:Marriage] Most do not start out a day saying, "I think I'll ruin my marriage today." In everyday actions and reactions; however, spouses are investing or withdrawing in their relationships all the time. Selfishness will demolish any relationship.


  • Teaching Toddlers Without Screaming
    [Home-and-Family:Parenting] Toddlers have an amazing ability to learn by watching. You can either use that to help teach them or yell at them until they cry. If you want enjoyable and effective time with your toddler, use their desire to be like you to your teaching advantage.


  • Tantrums - A Monster in the House
    [Home-and-Family:Parenting] Tantrums in our precious children are like monsters unleashed destroying our peace. Our reactions or responses can make the difference in helping them learn to control themselves.




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