Love Notes Myself and my husband are together 15 years and managed to keep our ‘spark’ alive well beyond the honeymoon stage but in the past few years things have changed without us really realising that our attraction has faded. One of the key issues here is the really distorted reality of attraction…
Love Notes My fiancé and I are getting married in a few months, and while I had assumed we would have a joint bank account once we got married but he has an issue with this, where do we go from here? How we feel about money is decided by a lot of factors,…
Love Notes We are married three years and in the last year or so my husband has been going out with his friends or work colleagues much more than before. He goes out every Saturday night and usually comes home drunk, really affecting our Sundays as a family because he is hungover and in…
Love Notes Myself and my wife are married 6 years, I have fond memories of our first few years of marriage always leaving in the morning with a kiss goodbye, but as the years have passed and our family has grown, each morning is filled with stress and rows and its impacting our relationship.…
My husband suffers really badly with the January blues, whereas I don’t. This has an impact on the atmosphere in our house and I’m finding it difficult. What should I do? This is difficult as I am sure you depend on your spouse as do your children, and when he is sluggish or low…
This Christmas will be my first Christmas as a married person. Myself and my husband have still not decided where we will spend it but we are getting pressure from both families as to where we should be spending Christmas day. For some families who is seated at their Christmas table on Christmas day…
Love Notes I am in general happily married yet sometimes I find myself feeling lonely even though I am not alone. What should I do? You are living under the same roof, you don’t wake up alone, so how can you be lonely? The pace of life can cause you and your spouse to…
I always find it really hard when the weather and seasons change, this affects my relationship, I find myself snappy and irritable towards my wife. How can I beat the winter blues? It’s understandable that after a lovely summer of sun that it might be especially hard not to be affected by the winter…
Love Notes Every year when I come back from holidays after a time of refreshment and family time, we often return with really bad post-holiday blues. How can I avoid them this year? This is totally normal and natural. You work hard all year, you save, you spend hours daydreaming about your two…
The amount that our family uses their phones is getting worse. It’s now affecting our relationships. How can we get back on track to having more phone-free time? Sadly this is not an uncommon issue in our interconnected world. Start off by having a phone-free rule that you implement at certain times. Get a…