Want Your Marriage to Last? Let Your Relationship Breathe
The healthiest marriages are not the ones where husband and wife spend the most time together. Does that surprise you?…
Communication
The Rhythms of Communication that Keep Marriage Alive
You know communication is necessary for a healthy relationship. But like any other good thing, it doesn’t happen if you…
Planning Regular Housecleaning For Your Marriage
Your marriage accumulates debris. Life’s just like that. Even after you’ve dealt with the major trash from the past more…
How to Build the Marriage You Desire in the New Year
There’s nothing magic about January 1. But there can be something almost magical about you making a decided change and…
The Gift Your Spouse Really Wants (But Won’t Ask For)
Whether you’ve been married six months or sixty years, coming up with a Christmas present for your spouse can present…
50 Date Night Questions For Couples
Remember when you and your sweetheart would talk for hours, about anything and everything? There was never enough time. But…
What Beautiful Thing Do You Want to Create in Your Marriage?
You are creative. You cannot be otherwise! You were made in the image of God, who by nature is the…
Seven Discussion Questions that will Improve Your Intimacy
Communication between you and your spouse can get stale if you don’t have a plan. You coordinate schedules, talk about…
How to Build Connection Needed for Healthy Intimacy
God created you with the need, desire, and capacity for intimacy. But intimacy doesn’t just “happen” even if you and…
How to Grow to be Best Friends with Your Spouse
Are you best friends with your spouse? I hope so. The friendship factor in marriage is huge. It’s one of…
8 Ways You May Have Broken Trust With Your Spouse
You can’t have a healthy marriage without trust. It’s comparatively easy to trust each other when the emotions are running…
What Sex Does for Your Wife
You want to be a good husband, the kind of husband God wants you to be. You love your wife…
What Sex Does for Your Husband
You want to be a “good” wife, the kind of wife God wants you to be. You love your husband…
When You Care More Than Your Spouse
Feeling as though someone else doesn’t care as much as you do hurts a lot. You want things to work…
When Your Spouse Chooses Work Over Family
You may have appreciated your spouse’s initiative and work ethic at first. But now the energy and hours they devote…
12 Things Your Spouse Needs to Hear You Say During This Crisis
Stress can make people prickly. Crisis can uncover both the worst and the best in people. You need some grace,…
Your Marriage Under Lockdown
If things are wonderful between you and your spouse, lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic may seem great; you’ve got…
Give Your Marriage the Gift of Communication
When we surveyed hundreds of couples young and old about what they wanted in their relationship, by far the most…
How to Reconnect with Your Spouse
You are feeling seriously disconnected from your spouse, and it’s just plain awful. You’ve determined you will no longer ignore,…
How to Get on the Same Page with your Spouse
Two people sliding into marriage don’t naturally “fall into” being aligned. Their expectations are different, their goals are different, their…
What it Means to Be On the Same Page With Your Spouse
One of the most frequent desires I hear from married people is, “I wish my spouse and I could get…
5 Things to do After a Fight with your Spouse
Chances are good you and your spouse have had a fight. Perhaps you even had a fight during the just-ended…
Having the Sex Talk with Your Spouse
There’s not a couple who comes to marriage where both partners have the same desires, expectations, or internal “map” around…
How to Start a Difficult Conversation with Your Spouse
Perhaps your spouse isn’t picking up the hints you’re dropping. Things aren’t going well, and perhaps you find it necessary…
10 Reasons Why Your Spouse Hasn’t Forgiven You Yet
Every marriage is the union of two broken sinful people who, left to their own devices, will destroy each other.…
How to Transform your Marriage Communication
The communication in your marriage could certainly be healthier. You fight, nag, yell, criticize, or give your spouse the silent…
How to Break the Crazy Communication Cycle
Do your attempts to communicate with your spouse end up leaving you more frustrated and upset? The Crazy Communication Cycle…
How to Open the Door to Intimacy
The need in the human heart for intimacy is deep. God created you and me for intimacy. One of the…
What is Your Communication Style?
Relationships can’t survive without communication. In marriage—the closest relationship on earth, communication breakdowns are both common and destructive. When asked,…
How to Have a Money Talk Without Fighting
Are you rarely or never able to agree with your spouse when it comes to money? Is one of you…
What God’s Communication can teach us about Communication in Marriage
When we asked couples what they struggle with, communication was Number One. It can feel as though you and your…
Translation Aids for Man-Speak and Woman-Speak
Perhaps Rosetta Stone, the language learning/translation software, should develop a program to provide translation aids between men and women. Listening…
Say This, Not That: Healthy Communication Examples for Marriage
Communication can be difficult. You and your spouse seem to speak different languages. Attempts at talking seem to end up…
The Key to Solving Communication Problems in Your Marriage
If your attempts at communicating with your spouse leave you frustrated, angry, and feeling even more distant, you’re not alone.…
The Most Important Organ in Communication
You hear communication and you may think “talk”. Which means using your mouth. But that’s not the most important organ…
When Your Spouse Will Not Communicate: 5 Things to Do
Communication is the fuel relationships need to thrive. When you first got together you couldn’t stop talking. But now you…
Avoid these 8 Mistakes in Communicating with your Spouse
“Honey, we need to talk.” How does that work out for you? Do you end up in a screaming match?…
HOLD the Communication! Do These Things First
The usual ways you and your spouse communicate lead to predictable results; frustration, anger, withdrawing, or fighting. Is it even…
6 Ways To Answer When Your Spouse Asks, “What’s Wrong?”
Your spouse: “What’s wrong?” You: “Nothing.” How’s that been working? Probably not very well. And it may even be making…
7 Conversation Starters with your Spouse
Communicate. Communicate. Communicate. Yes, that’s the secret of a great relationship. Although good communication between husband and wife is so important, it may not seem easy to do.
“But I have nothing to say. What do we talk about?”
That’s why you’re reading this! If things tend to be somewhat silent between you, here are some suggestions for conversation.
