The Difference Between Forgiveness and Trust
When Jason and Alisha met with my wife and I they were in tough shape. Jason had just found out about his wife’s affair...
Your Spouse Doesn’t Complete You
When is the last time you felt disappointed by your marriage? Notice that I asked when, not if. Disappointment is a normal part of any relationship, but...
How to Add Warmth to Your Frozen Marriage
It's easy for marriages to become civil but distant, where a continued lack of warmth slowly freezes out love. The good news, coming today...
How to Survive When Your Marriage is Under Attack
Today's post comes from Live Your Best Marriage.
In a few weeks my husband and I will celebrate our 25th Wedding Anniversary. It’s been an exciting...
How to Have a Passionate Marriage, Even With Kids Still in the House
Today's post comes from our amazing friends at Sexy Marriage. They have an incredible wealth of resources on their site, so make sure to...
4 Easy Habits That Will Transform Your Marriage
Today's post comes from Phil @ Connected Marriage
I try to invest my time, my money and my resources on things that will pay me...
What Do You Want to Believe About Your Spouse?
Today's great post on what we choose to believe about our spouse comes from Marriage Laboratory. Enjoy!
There is a person in my life with...
Practical Ideas for a High Maintenance Marriage
Today's post comes from the wonderful Jim Burns at Homeword. Check out the discussion questions at the end and have a conversation with your...
Your Wife Doesn’t Know How to Tell You She Needs This
What a great, great piece of advice from our friend at America's Family Coaches.
Every woman has times when she feels discouraged, misunderstood, or afraid....
10 of the Hardest Adjustments to Make After Marriage
Today's post comes from Rebecca at To Love, Honor, and Vacuum. Enjoy!
Adjusting to marriage can be difficult!
There’s a lot of great stuff that comes...
Is Your Marriage’s Health At Risk? Here’s How to Find Out
Today's post from America's Family Coaches is absolutely right on. Behind all the details and distractions, how is the heart of your marriage doing?...
How to Have an Increasingly Happy Marriage
I have always been annoyed by the whole "marriage is for holiness, not happiness" mantra, and in today's post Gary Thomas explains why: holiness...
5 Simple Habits To Build Intimacy in Your Marriage
I'm always a sucker for a new Doug Fields blog post, especially about marriage. True to form, today's is short, simple, practical, and full...
What Are You Feeding Your Mind About Marriage?
Today's post about how we think about marriage comes from the always amazing Gary Thomas.
The old cliché, “stupid is as stupid does” is painfully...
How to Find Your Marriage’s “Lost” Love
Today's post comes from Gary Thomas, and features the story of Megan (see link in next paragraph), and how they found new life in...
The #1 Killer of a Marriage … and How to Get Rid of It
Over the years, we’ve heard many sad stories from people. A lot of these people were on the brink of separation or divorce, or...
Do You Know Your Marriage’s Superpower?
I really, really enjoyed this post from Scott Kedersha. It's a creative angle on a topic we haven't covered much here at Thriving Marriages,...
10 Marriage Lessons After 10 Years of Marriage
Today's tip is a charming, honest, funny post from Celeste at Marriage Laboratory. Hope you enjoy!
10 years.
Rich and I have been married 10 years!
I...
Can Marriage Survive When the Unthinkable Happens?
Today's post from Intimacy in Marriage is real, and raw, and a gruelingly painful description of a marriage fighting to survive the death of...
11 Boring Habits that Build an Exhilarating Marriage
The truth is that every great accomplishment you've witnessed, whether in sports, the arts, or a great relationship, happened because of years of practice...
Your Spouse Doesn’t Deserve Your Love
One of the most challenging and beautiful aspects of the Christian faith is grace: undeserved kindness. Today's post comes from our longtime partners at...
Your Marriage’s Weak Spot Isn’t Your Spouse
Everything you need to learn about marriage comes from watching women in bikinis - who knew?!? Today's post comes from the always-amazing Gary Thomas....
The Affair You Don’t Even Know You’re Having
Now more than ever, technology addiction is a threat to meaningful connection. Far too often I (Josh) give the best of my time and...
Actually, You CAN Change Your Spouse. Here’s How.
While today's post from Sheila at To Love, Honor, and Vacuum is written to women, it is full of GREAT advice for all of...
Your Spouse Is Not the Enemy
There are times when I read a marriage article and am absolutely nailed to the wall by it. Today's, from America's Family Coaches, is...
Why You Should Be Nice … Even When Your Spouse Isn’t
Being nice to your spouse is easy! Until they're not nice to you. Today's post explains why we should fight for nice, even when it...
The 1 Threat to Your Marriage’s Future That No One Talks About
Back in 2001 a low-budget indie film called Memento shot a then little-known director named Christopher Nolan into the Hollywood A-list. The movie is about Leonard,...
Your Marriage Will Make it Through This Season
So we're running today's post for two reasons. One is that the author, Jenny Rapson, is moving on from the Thriving Marriages team today,...
7 Ways to Avoid an Affair (#4 is huge!)
Confession: I HATE writing clickbaity headlines like the one above. The only reason I (Josh) wrote today's, is because I really do believe #4...
Your Marriage is More Than Free Sex and Housekeeping
Today's post from Juli at Authentic Intimacy is a great reminder - our marriages are more than just a contract, a routine, or an...
The Secret to Finding “Happily Ever After” In Your Marriage (Yes, It’s Possible!)
Why is everyone hungry for more? “More, more,” they say. “More, more.” I have God’s more-than-enough. More joy in one ordinary day.
Psalm 4:6-7
Every couple about to be...
Why My Wife Was Sneaking Out of Bed at 2 A.M.
This article comes from Jerrad Lopes, the dad and husband behind the DadTired.com community, which helps men lead their family well! Jerrad originally shared...
The Two Words that Kill a Marriage: “I Deserve”
Our Thriving Marriages community has grown a LOT in the past year, which is exciting! It also means that most of you missed out...
To Win at Marriage … You Have to Lose
One of my big realization in my 30s has been that "easy" isn't life's default setting. Easy, hard, boring, exciting, hopeful, discouraging ... these...
Kick Out Fear & Make More Room for Love in Your Marriage
Today's post from Friend of the Newsletter™ Danny at Loving on Purpose wrecked me (Josh) in the best of ways. Sometimes we need reminders of...
5 Tips for Walking the Career/Family Tightrope
There may come a time when your spouse’s job (or your job) begins to cause friction in your marriage. What can you do?
When the...
Running on Empty? Here’s How to Keep Your Marriage’s Fuel Tank Full
Today's marriage tip comes from Patrick Schwenk as a guest blogger for Gary Thomas's site. It leads to a great question: what's one way...
Should We Care About Celebrity Marriages?
I tend to be a little (a lot) cynical about celebrity marriages, and why we get so worked up about them. But this fantastic...
The Danger of ‘Choice Paralysis’ When Your Marriage is Struggling
Today's post comes from Gary Thomas and is an adaptation from his new book Loving Him Well: Practical Advice for Influencing Your Husband. While the...
4 Commitments I Made in Marriage (or: How I’m not the Hulk Anymore)
Today's post is written by me (Josh), your friendly neighborhood Thriving Marriages editor. If you'd like to know more about me, well you're about...
You Already Have What You’re Looking For in Your Marriage
Today's post is a powerful reminder from Elisabeth Klein. If you like it, be sure to check out one of her books we've linked...
7 Steps to Get the Most out of Marriage Counseling
This isn't the first time we've said this, but we're a big fan of therapy (done well) here at Thriving Marriages. Today's great post...
Is My Marriage Too Broken, Even for Counseling?
Today's post comes from Andre and Timberly at livingourpriorities.com.
Do you feel like your marriage is so far gone that even counseling won’t work?
Well, we...
How 2 Minutes a Day Can Change Your Marriage
Today's post comes from Gary Thomas, and our friends at Homeword.
While working on my book Cherish: The One Word That Changes Everything for Your Marriage, I...
How Much Time Do You Give Your Marriage?
“The average marriage today is weaker than the average marriage of yore, in terms of both satisfaction and divorce rate, but the best marriages...
Most Romantic. Gesture. Ever.
Today's very romantic post first ran on our sister site For Every Mom, and is written by Mary Carver. You can check out her blog here.
In...
What Winemaking Can Teach You About Marriage
Today's post comes from Monique Chambers & Start Marriage Right.
The butterflies ceased, the kind words of affirmation came to a halt, and those go-out-of-my-way...
Remember, Your Marriage is Only Two People (here’s looking at you, kids)
Today's post comes from Melissa Edgington and originally appeared on our sister site, For Every Mom, which - if you ARE a mom -...
What No One Tells You at the Wedding
Today's post - a free verse poem from Shawn Smucker - is a powerful reflection on marriage. Hope you enjoy it!
There is something
no one tells...
Therapy Can’t Save Your Marriage, but it CAN Help
In some spheres of Christianity, therapy is looked at suspiciously; however, here at Thriving Marriages we're a huge fan of (good) therapy and believe...
