Okay, you know as well as I do that there’s no “quick fix” for family conflicts, but I found a clever video on what it might look like if there ever WERE a “quick fix” to resolve conflict between family members.

Take a few minutes to watch the short video below, I’m sure you’ll get a much needed laugh this time of year like I did.

But on a more serious note, this is the time of year when people are tense, stressed out and many can’t wait for the season to be over with.

And with holiday get-togethers right around the corner, it’s important you don’t let your marriage and family struggles get in the way of the family festivities for your childrens’ sake.

So I’ve created 5 quick tips you can use to make sure your family get-togethers become happy memories for your children.

1) Control your emotions. Decide ahead of time you’re gonig to control your emotions regardless of what anybody says or does.  I think it’s important to note that you can’t do this in the moment, you MUST do this ahead of time.

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Last Thursday’s live teleseminar is ready!

First of all, I’d like to thank you for joining me on the live call if you were able to call in or listen online to the live teleseminar.

We’ve posted the recording from Thursday’s call below for you to stream or download to your computer for later listening.

Because of the high volume of emails I received from people who wanted to get on the call, but couldn’t because all the slots were taken, we’ve decided to extend the special discount offer on Marriage 101 through Tuesday, November 18th at midnight.

But to be fair for those people that got in on the call, the QuickStart bonus is no longer offered as it was available to only those who could make it on the live call.

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Lately, it’s hard to get away from all the impending recession talk that TV is so determined to sell us. It’s impossible to hide from news anchors reporting on bad facts, bad rumors and bad possibilities.

Not to worry though, I’m not a bad news merchant.

As you may (or may not know), I’m someone like you whose struggled to find happiness in my miserable marriage. But today, all that’s changed because after so many painful years, 27 to be exact, of trial and error, I finally discovered what it takes to turn around a marriage.

But don’t get me wrong. I’m still the same person I always was and my wife is still the same woman she was.

Neither of us needed to change. And neither do the two of you!

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Lately, I’ve been contacted by several couples asking me if I offer marriage seminars or in-person marriage improvement sessions. While the short answer is that I don’t, I’d like to give you my recommendations as to where you could go for an informative, yet entertaining weekend marriage seminar.

Not all weekend marriage seminars are fit for all types of couples. Most are designed to appeal to women, not to men, even though the majority are put on by men. Husbands just come along and endure the seminar and make their wife happy. I highly encourage couples to go to a weekend marriage event if they have another couple they know where both the wife AND husband have highly endorsed it. Marriage Encounter, for example, is a serious weekend event that causes couples to really think, analyze their relationship history and communicate. It’s been around for many years and you have to find one scheduled near you in order to attend.

Typically, men have no intention of getting “stuck” in some marriage seminar for two days. That’s the reason I highly endorse Mark Gungor’s Laugh Your Way To A Better Marriage weekend event. I’ve personally been to several of these events and I’ve watched men react. Most men laugh non-stop and make this comment, “If I’d of known it was this good, I’d have done this a lot sooner.” Mark Gungor presents his hysterically funny way to teach couples how to be happily married, all around the country. You can find his appearance schedule at www.laughyourway.com So you can get a sample of what to expect from Mark Gungor, here’s a clip from one of his events on the difference between “Men and Women’s Brains”…

Mark Gungor is a good friend of mine and one of the most sought after speakers on marriage and family in the country. He teaches thousands of couples each year. Mark’s down to earth, practical approach teaches biblical principles for marriage, but adds humor by the truck load. Couples who leave the two day event are amazed at how laughing drives home the learning and takes the threat out of what had become a hostile relationship.

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Is Your Spouse “In Love” With Being In Love?

Are you familiar with a concept called “the Ignorance Ethic”? Most likely you’re not, but it’s an idea that is widely responsible for a wide variety of marriage problems these days.

The “Ignorance Ethic” is a term I use to express how completely ignorant we are when it comes to marriage. You see, most people think it’s perfectly acceptable to remain ignorant about the subject of HOW to be happily married.

And it’s no wonder. Open any women’s magazine and you’ll see celebrity after celebrity divorce case. And for every divorce case, there’s another couple “hooking up”.

And if a relationship doesn’t work out, that particular celebrity is just “unlucky in love”.

But the truth is, it has NOTHING to do with luck.

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Why read yet another well researched study, grinding out the insignificant details of who, what, when, where and why we have yet another social problem? All problems in our society really only come from ONE problem.

The trouble in our past, present and future can be explained in one simple sentence….

Failed fathers create challenging and troubled children!

What’s that? You don’t believe it? You think it’s much more complicated than that? Please allow me to prove that it’s not complicated at all.

Let me take you on a brief history tour of ‘failing fathers’ so you can see what kind of children they’ve produced.

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