Welcome to our literary series on the blog, “What’s on Our Bookshelf?” where we’re delighted to share our reading recommendations with you. Whatever your genre of choice, we’ve tried to include something for everyone. This month we’re sharing some of our recommendations for the season of Advent and Christmas.

This is the third episode in our series on trust, and today we will explore another essential building block: motive.

Any time we experience a conflict in our marriage, whether it’s over something big or small, we may be aware of all the things we shouldn’t do. However, when things get tense and heated, all reason can go out the window - unless we have some strategies in place of what we should do instead!

This is the second podcast in this series called "How Can I Build Trust", and in this podcast, we're going to dig into the first essential building block, which we touched on briefly in the last podcast, which is listening and understanding.

How many times did you hear the phrase “practice makes perfect” growing up? I know I certainly did. Especially anytime I struggled with something; playing an instrument, learning spellings or algebra, speaking a new language. Something about it never sat easily with me though. What if I didn’t know the best way to practise?

For all the married ladies out there, were you ever taught how to best argue with your spouse?! On your wedding day you might not have pictured your future self arguing with the man of your dreams, but there’s the ideal and then there’s the reality. We’re only humans after all. We aren’t perfect and there will come a time when conflict and arguments arise.