Marriage Mondays!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Relationship tips to keep your marriage humming!<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Tell your partner what you want<\/em> rather than what you don\u2019t<\/em> want.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Instead of saying, \u201cI don\u2019t want you to go out with your friends every weekend,\u201d try saying, \u201cI would love for us to spend more quality time on the weekends.\u201d Since this is a less critical approach, your partner will feel less defensive and more willing to accommodate your needs. The key is to focus on the present, rather than the past. Forget about what your partner didn\u2019t do last week or last year, and concentrate on what you want from your partner in the present moment.<\/p>\n

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Marriage Mondays! Relationship tips to keep your marriage humming! Tell your partner what you want rather than what you don\u2019t want. Instead of saying, \u201cI don\u2019t want you to go out with your friends every weekend,\u201d try saying, \u201cI would love for us to spend more quality time on the weekends.\u201d Since this is a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[576],"tags":[78,119,156,178,201,207,387,448,464,479,487],"class_list":["post-5523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marriage-monday","tag-asheville-nc-weddings","tag-asheville-wedding","tag-asheville-wedding-inspiration","tag-asheville-wedding-planning","tag-asheville-wedding-vendors","tag-asheville-weddings","tag-studiowed-asheville","tag-wedding-inspiration","tag-wedding-planning-in-asheville-nc","tag-wedding-vendors-asheville","tag-weddings-in-asheville-nc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studiowed.net\/asheville\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studiowed.net\/asheville\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studiowed.net\/asheville\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studiowed.net\/asheville\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studiowed.net\/asheville\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studiowed.net\/asheville\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studiowed.net\/asheville\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studiowed.net\/asheville\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studiowed.net\/asheville\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}