Every marriage experiences conflict but have you ever wondered why certain couples' conflict experience calm conversations and others seem like their conflict is more like a world war?

Conflict is an essential part of your marriage and can be used to connect deeper with your husband, but only if dealt with in a healthy way.

In this week's episode of The Marriage & Motherhood Podcast, I shared:

• Why we experience conflict
• How our approach to conflict impacts marriage
• The two ways people deal with conflict

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If you feel disconnected in your marriage, it could be because there's a lack of emotional intimacy.

When you think of intimacy, you may immediately think about sex aka physical intimacy, but emotional intimacy plays a bigger role in your satisfaction in your marriage than you might know.

In this week's episode of The Marriage & Motherhood Podcast, I shared:

• What intimacy is
• What emotional intimacy is
• What marriage is like when there is emotional intimacy
• Signs that your marriage has emotional intimacy
• Signs that your marriage could use more emotional intimacy
  

Listen here and remember to subscribe, leave a review, and share it if you loved this episode! 

For more resources on how to have a happy and successful marriage, head on over to www.michellepurta.com and subscribe!

Conflict is actually good for your marriage.

I think a lot of you will probably agree with me on this, in that Disney movies, and all those fairy tales really ruined us in terms of how we define a happy marriage. Growing up, all the way up until probably the last five, or six years. My idea of a happy marriage did not involve conflict. It didn't involve arguments. I thought that if you argued that meant that your relationship was not healthy. Lo and behold, in my experience of conflict in my marriage earlier on and in my past relationships, there were a lot of conflicts. Anytime I got upset or annoyed or something didn't meet my needs, or I felt disappointed in some sense. There was conflict. That led to a lot of different beliefs from me, in my head, my lovely mind. It created a lot of drama for me. Beliefs, like, “Oh, I'll never find someone who fully gets me.” It was just a lot of back and forth a lot of conflicting beliefs around a conflict in...