A Christmas Prayer for your Marriage
Choosing a gift for your spouse at Christmas may seem difficult, especially when the world – and your life –…
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How to Give a Great Christmas Gift to Your Marriage
Getting a toaster? A cordless drill? A bathrobe? A Weathertech cup holder? Ummm, not likely to create that warm fuzzy…
A Thanksgiving Challenge that will Transform Your Marriage
Research proves it; expressing gratitude is good for you. And it will not only help your mental health; it can…
The Difference Between Being Nice and Being Kind in Your Marriage
Would you really want to be married to someone who’s “nice?” I don’t think you would. It’s easy to confuse…
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?…
Where to Invest in Your Marriage for Long-Term Success
Nothing of real value just happens. You don’t drift toward a finely tuned athletic body, a million-dollar retirement fund, or…
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…
What It Looks Like to be FOR Your Relationship
Deeper than any specific words or actions is the position from which both you and your spouse come to your…
To the Husband Blindsided by Your Wife
You’d have given your marriage a 7 or 8 on a scale of 1 to 10. You might prefer more…
How Managing Your Anxiety can Transform Your Marriage
You know you’re not at your best when you’re stressed out, anxious, or afraid. And your internal state doesn’t just…
What Telling Your Story Does for You and Others
Darla wanted to hide. She’d been doing it all her life. Her story was a difficult one, and she’d gotten…
Ten Things to Ask Your Marriage Mentors
Most people embarking on marriage have precious little preparation for what will be the most important earthly relationship they will…
Make Valentine’s Day More than a Burdensome Commercial Pause
Today is Valentine’s Day. This sort-of holiday seems mostly like a chance for retailers to make money during an otherwise…
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…
How Gratitude Transforms Your Marriage
Thanksgiving comes this week in the United States. Many research studies demonstrate how intentional gratitude can improve your mental and…
How to Win When Your Spouse Triggers You
Something inside you goes off. Your spouse says something (or doesn’t), gives you a look, or acts a certain way,…
How to Criticize Your Spouse in the Way that Actually Works
Snide remarks. Eyerolls. Angry outbursts. Constant correction. Your spouse deserves that, right? After all, they’re messing up over and over…
How to Strengthen Your Marriage While Navigating Midlife
Midlife is a season of change. As a woman, you’re approaching or going through menopause and everything seems disrupted –…
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…
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 Build Safety in Your Marriage
You want intimacy. That’s why you got married! But intimacy doesn’t just happen; there are several necessary ingredients that must…
Want Intimacy? You Need Honesty as a Foundation
God created you with the need, desire, and capacity for intimacy. That’s a core part of what you were looking…
Uprooting Why You Feel Unhappy in Your Marriage
Every marriage has challenges. It wouldn’t make sense to expect the union of two different human beings to proceed without…
10 Resolutions that will Revolutionize Your Relationship in 2021
The only helpful thing about New Year’s resolutions is that they get you to focus on what you can do.…
Three Powerful Keys to a Better Marriage in 2021
Last year was so – 2020. A year many people want never to repeat. Most are hoping and praying for…
How to Strengthen Your Marriage Through the Holidays
The holiday season is always stressful. In spite of the joy, for many people the holiday blues are very real.…
How to Fight FOR Your Marriage Not AGAINST Your Spouse
Your marriage is important. It means everything to you. Anything that important requires investment of time and energy. But the…
Why an Invitation is the Better Door to Intimacy
If you’re married and reading this, it’s likely you want greater intimacy with your spouse. And for many people that…
5 Things a Wife Can Do for a Better Sex Life
What happens in your soul when you hear “better sex life”? For some women you’d like to shout, “better would…
5 Things a Husband Can Do for a Better Sex Life
Most men want sex. And for the many men who would like a better sex life with their wives, it…
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…
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…
What Forgiveness Does NOT Do for your Marriage
Your spouse is messing up BAD. He/she is having an affair, getting drunk, hiding out-of-control spending, using pornography, or engaging…
Ten Questions to Understand Your Spouse Better
How well do you know your husband or wife? You may have thought you knew them quite well when you…
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…
Stuck at Home with Your Spouse? 12 Ways to Make the Most of It
Stuck at home with your spouse? Date nights have become an important way husbands and wives in our culture stay…
Three Relationship Goals for Your Marriage
Whether you’re a New Year’s Resolutions person or not, the science is clear that defining clear goals makes it more…
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…
The Key to Better Intimacy With Your Spouse
How’s your sex life with your spouse? If this topic leaves you frustrated, angry, lonely, or feeling rejected, you’re in…
Don’t Settle for a Miserable Marriage
Marriage affects your wellbeing. If your relationship is healthy you are happier, healthier, and generally live a longer more productive…
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,…
5 Questions Every Married Person Should Ask
Ask the wrong questions, and you’ll get answers that are misleading at best and possibly harmful. Ask better questions, and…
How to Move Closer to your Spouse
Knowing about God’s design for intimacy in marriage is great. But that goal can seem so impossible to approach. What…
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…
