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Every practice in the library, in one list. Narrow it by how long you have, who it is written for, and where you are right now.
If you tend to go quiet, step back in today and say one honest sentence.
Silence protects you but starves them. One true line reopens the connection.
If you tend to press, soften your approach today: ask once, gently, then wait.
The push that seeks closeness often creates distance. Try a softer, slower reach.
On one small slight today, give your spouse the benefit of the doubt out loud in your mind.
The late reply, the short tone. Choose the reading that is not an attack. Usually it is truer.
Assume your spouse meant well today, even when it landed wrong, and respond to the intent.
Clumsy is not the same as unkind. Answer what they meant, not only how it came out.
Catch yourself keeping score today, and set the ledger down.
I did this, so they owe that. Love kept as accounting slowly turns cold. Drop the tally.
There is more about your marriage than the practices: the your marriage area has the themes and the courses too.
On the old recurring issue, raise it once this week more gently than you ever have.
Most problems between two people never fully resolve. The task is to soften how you carry them.