Marriage and Relationship Check-Ups

According to the latest statistics, the last-reported U.S. divorce rate for a calendar year is 0.40% per capita per year, the provisional estimate for the year 2002 from the National Center for Health Statistics. Since every divorce involves two people, the percentage becomes somewhat more meaningful if you double it. Source: Births, Marriages, Divorces, and Deaths: Provisional Data for October-December 2002 (from Divorce Reform)

The immediate effects of divorce impact on every aspect of the lives of those who are touched by the shattered relationship. People involved in marital problems show a marked decrease in work productivity, higher rates of depression, and a higher incidence of disease, thus affecting society as a whole in increased social costs. Children, in-laws and friends are also impacted by the breakup.

It‘s no wonder then that people are seeking relationship and marriage advice and relationship counseling. People are looking for ways to save my marriage and save my love relationship. The proliferation of online relationship and marriage counseling and relationship help websites is an indication of a need that is trying to be filled.

Couples in a love relationship want to learn ways to keep their love alive and fresh, starting before the wheels fall off their relationship, and continuing through all of the good and bad times.

FamilyIQ can help provide relationship and marriage advice at any stage of a relationship, through the use of relationship tests and relationship quizzes, courses, online support and resources.

One of the more popular FamilyIQ courses is called The Languages of Love. The blurb reads as follows:

One of our deepest, basic, and most primal needs is the need to feel intimate, loved, and loving with another person. Sometimes we as humans stumble and struggle, but there are ways to keep this love alive and growing. This course will guide you on how to express your love to your partner by understanding and using the five love languages. The course covers expressions of love with words of affirmation, the use of quality time, through gifts, and acts of service to each other. Finally, the importance of the expression of physical touch is explored and explained. This course is based on the book, The Five Love Languages (Northfield Publishing, ©1995) by Gary Chapman. In addition to this book we also recommend, The Five Love Languages of Teenagers (Northfield Publishing, © 2000) by Gary Chapman, and The Five Love Languages of Children (Moody Press, ©1997) by Gary Chapman and Ross Campbell.

In addition to the Languages of Love course, FamilyIQ has complementary articles on the topic of love relationships, such as Learning the Languages of Love and Understanding Builds Marriages, both by Wallace Goddard, Ph.D. Other courses providing resources and tools for relationship and marriage building and saving include Communicating with Your Partner and Creating Partnership Solidarity: Building Your Coat of Arms. Love tests and relationship tests include Are You Happy Together? Marital Satisfaction Test and Your Relationship‘s Strengths and Weaknesses. Good tests such as these are great tools for assessing strengths and weaknesses and to understand which areas need help and improvement.

And finally, support groups are an important resource for relationship advice. FamilyIQ‘s active online discussion bulletin boards offer love advice from people who have been there and can offer the fruits of their own relationship problems, successes, and experiences.