What does a healthy marriage look like? We’ve seen plenty unhealthy and healthy marriage across our 30 years of marriage counseling experience.  These are the top 3 factors that are common in all healthy marriages.

The 3 key factors of a healthy, happy and successful marriage include:

The Ability To Communicate Successfully about anything—no matter how difficult or challenging the topic. The communication consistently leads to a mutually satisfying solution.

Couples Compliment Far More Than They Criticize. Marriage research has concluded that, in general, the more the compliments and the less criticism, the more successful the marriage.

Couples Express Genuine Gratitude and Appreciation daily for the many “acts of love and caring” given by spouses to each other.

Our couple’s awards luncheon proves that a healthy marriage is quite possible. There are literally thousands of couples who have magnificent relationships. (They just don’t talk about them much because unhappily married people don’t much like hearing about them.)