You are two different people with two backgrounds and your own thoughts, feelings and ideas. It can be difficult to find common ground sometimes. Dr. Karen Sherman explains how couples can effectively compromise.

Hopefully you strive to grow and improve throughout your life. So how do you set goals in life life or within your marriage and make them stick? How do you get your spouse to support your goals? How do you even approach such a thing? Dr. Karen Sherman offers advice.

Before a couple has a child (or right after), Dr. Karen Sherman believes the family should do these things to be best prepared for the new baby.

Why do couples get into conflicts and what are the general rules on how to handle conflict? Dr. Karen Sherman has answers and a fun little story to share.

Marriage is an amazingly close relationship, but that also makes it a space of vulnerability. Dr. Noelle Nelson offers advice on how you can say what you want to your spouse to get closer than ever.

We can connect with our spouse (and others) through the use of techonogy in more ways than ever before. Dr. Karen Sherman and Hitched editor, Steve Cooper, discuss how these new communication tools are being used and what that means for your marriage.

A listener wonders why she and her husband are in a cylce of sending loving and thoughtful text messages throughout the day only to have arguments when they're face to face, following by apology texts the next morning to repeat the cycle. Dr. Karen Sherman shares advice.

Doing a project with your spouse can be enjoyable or a total nightmare. Dr. Karen Sherman shares tips on how to avoid the arguments and what couples should keep in mind.

Valentine's Day is in the rearview mirror, so how can couples keep the good feelings going when there's nothing special on the horizon. Dr. Noelle Nelson shares her insight.

A listener wrote-in asking for advice on how to get her wife to have more sex. Dr. Karen Sherman offers a ton of insight on why this might not be a sex issue at all, and what our listener can do about it.