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Topic: Relationships

How To improve Your Marriage With 95% Success!

What if talking about your marriage is the wrong solution? Opening a new series on marriage and relationships, Dr. Mike Ladra explains why better communication never fixes a relationship, and what does. Every relationship has a “love bank,” and everything we do is either a deposit or a deduct. He shows how blaming, the “dump truck game,” interfering parents and unrealistic expectations keep relationships stuck. He points to Jesus’s Golden Rule as the approach with a 95% success rate: ask what it’s like to live with you, then do what makes the other person feel loved, because love is a verb.

Are You Disappointed With Someone?

Expectations are resentment and disappointment planned in advance. Dr. Ladra shows how unmet expectations fuel conflict in marriages, families and friendships, and how even Jesus disappointed people who expected something else. He gives three ways to break free: remember that people will disappoint, know when not to argue and let them be wrong, and choose forgiveness to keep the relationship.