ArchiveJanuary 2009

What Managers Need to Know about Marriage

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I will be speaking about managing married employees on Wednesday, February 11, 2009, in Philadelphia. If you are a manager, a supervisor, or a trainer, I promise lots of useful ideas. I hope you will come to this meeting of the Greater Philadelphia Chapter of the American Society for Training and Development (ASTD). Why should managers care? Because unhappy marriages tank productivity and...

Did Fireproof Change Your Marriage?

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Have you seen the movie Fireproof? It’s worth a watch, and it’s now out on DVD. It’s the story of a couple rediscovering each other and the meaning of commitment through a 40-day “Love Dare” from the husband’s father. If you have seen it, and it has changed your marriage, Gary Chapman, author of the fantastic book The Five Love Languages, is offering you a...

Win Every Argument

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It’s January. Time for all those post-holiday arguments. You two have different goals for the new year. You have different hurts left over from last year. You have different fears, different challenges ahead. You have different ideas of how important those threats or challenges will be. You have different ideas how to deal with them. Break out the arguments. And crank up the stakes. Your...

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How to Cheer Your Unemployed Spouse

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“Andrew Clark, an economist in France, has recently shown … if you are unemployed, you will, on average, be happier if your spouse is unemployed, too.”
– Sonja Lyubomirsky, author of “The How of Happiness: A Scientific Approach to Getting the Life You Want,” in the NY Times this week.

Patty Newbold

I am a widow who got it right the second time. I have been sharing here since February 14, 2006 what I learned from that experience and from positive psychology, marriage research, and my training as a marriage educator.

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