This article addresses some of the transitions that families generally go through including newly formed couples, welcoming children, working with teenagers, and then later managing life without children at home. The article offers helpful suggestions for dealing with adversity and challenges faced as a result of transitions that occur in the home.
Discusses practical principles in building healthy relationships including ways to keep open lines of communication, ways to be patient with each other during difficult times, and ways to recognize the relationship roadblocks that make it difficult to form and sustain healthy relationships.