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Secrets to a Better Marriage: Why Supporting Each Other Nurtures Love

Secrets to a Better Marriage: Why Supporting Each Other Nurtures Love

Couple supporting each other

Many people have heard the saying "Husband and wife are strangers." It may be taken as a kind of middle ground between compromise and peaceful acceptance: since we're different people with different ways of thinking and different values, differences can't be helped.

I see this a little differently.It's true that spouses are born as strangers and may have different thoughts, perceptions, and values. But when two people marry, they become people who cherish each other like "a part of their own body" and support one another.

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[Inner Conflict] A Parent's Trauma and the Responsibility of Watching Over Your Child

[Inner Conflict] A Parent's Trauma and the Responsibility of Watching Over Your Child

Child watching a happy family from a distance

The Heavy Reality of a Poor Parent-Child Relationship

For a child whose relationship with their parents is poor, and whose parents don't fulfill their responsibilities, growing up is never easy. When you're small, you may accept it as normal, but as the years go by, the thought "I'm unlucky to have parents like this" slowly seeps into your heart.

Warm Families That Seem Like Another World

When you visit a friend's home and see a warm family, or watch an ideal parent-child scene on TV, it...


Ease Parenting Stress: 5 Ways to Make the Most of Today

Ease Parenting Stress: 5 Ways to Make the Most of Today

Parent and child smiling together

Parenting is a mix of joy and challenge, isn't it? But sometimes we lose the space to truly enjoy "today," and there are moments when we can't feel joy in the time we spend with our family and children. I feel the same way at times. Let's think together about how we can treasure "today".

Why It's Hard to Live in "Today"

When you're raising children, the days fly by. From morning to night you're busy caring for the kids and doing housework, on top of work and looking...


Of course it can lead to depression! A husband doesn't do housework.

Of course it can lead to depression! A husband doesn't do housework.

Wife looking tired while doing housework

Many women are troubled by a husband who does no housework at all.



Even as ideas of gender equality and dual-income households spread in modern society, there are still husbands who do no housework at all. Some of them are absorbed in their own work or hobbies, and some simply leave the housework alone.



But when both partners work or childcare is demanding, it is only natural to worry about, and wish for, your husband's help with the housework.



This article explains, for women, why husbands don't do housework...


How to overcome the trauma that often comes up during child rearing

How to overcome the trauma that often comes up during child rearing

Parent and child holding hands


It's Natural to Sometimes Have Negative Feelings Toward Your Child


On the endless journey of parenting, feeling irritated with your child, or feeling disgusted with yourself for thinking that way, is by no means rare. It is a natural psychological phenomenon that can happen to anyone. "Always smiling and staying positive with your child at all times" is nothing more than an unrealistic ideal.


That's because parenting, too, rests on "a deep relationship between one human being and another". Parents are also...