Husbands, Here’s What God Expects You to Be.
When the Bible tells husbands to love their wives like Christ loves the church, it’s calling us to an initiating, reaching-out love.
3 Ways to Grow Your Commitment in Marriage
Words alone don’t ensure fidelity but they sure do help strengthen your commitment in marriage to each other.
The Best Marriage Story is . . . Boring?!?
The best marriage story you’ll ever hear might sound a little boring, but it’s the story you and I both want for our children.
Nag or Treasure? How Do You Treat Your Wife?
Pastor Brandon Cox drops an important truth bomb: when a guy continually complains that his wife is a nag, she might not be the main problem.
3 Lies That Lead to An Affair
If you are frustrated with your marriage and you’re thinking about starting something new, here are three lies that could lead to an affair.
Help, My Imperfect Spouse Is Ruining My Perfect Marriage!
Let’s say it plainly because we all know it’s true: Nobody has a perfect marriage. Your differences and flaws can lead to disappointments.
Celebrating Love Is How a Marriage Lasts Forever
Celebrating love is all about reveling in the emotional, physical, and spiritual connections that bond you to your spouse.
Why Your Spouse NEEDS You To Have Other Friends
There’s something wonderful you can do for your marriage that will feed and protect it. I’m not talking about reading a marriage book, or even praying together. The gift you can give to your marriage that I want to talk about this week is intentionally to have other friends outside your marriage.
The Weak Spot in Your Marriage Isn’t Your Spouse
"Marriage is kind of like beach volleyball—marriage in a bikini." Learn a surprising lesson about your marriage's weak spot.
14 Tips to Strengthen a Struggling Marriage.
If your marriage is in jeopardy, find time to strengthen it now, as it is the foundation under which your entire family rests.
How Your Family of Origin Impacts Your Marriage Now
Whether you're familiar with the term or not, your family origin impacts marriage in critical ways, for good or bad. Find out how.
Change Your Marriage Using 2 Minutes a Day
This simple practice could change your marriage in powerful ways. "I’m as happy as I’ve ever been in my marriage."
Close the Loop: The One Vital Habit That Will Keep Your Marriage Moving Forward
Your hurtful words or actions open the loop by introducing pain. It is important to close the loop as soon as possible to deal with the pain and return the relationship to harmony.
Husbands, Love Your Wives Like Jesus. 3 Keys.
Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her – Eph 5:25 Pastors often preach it, but are we living by it?
What Are You Doing to Pursue Your Spouse?
Over the years I’ve learned it’s the small ways you pursue your spouse in marriage every day that grow a marriage.
3 Tough Love Truths About Your Marriage
These 3 tough love truths are healthy reminders for every married couple. So often we want to make it our spouse’s fault.
How Do You Dole Out Your Household Chores?
Household chores represent the most pressing “minor issue” in marriage for a lot of couples because it’s a conflict that never goes away.
Emotional Affair: 10 Warning Signs
Here are the 10 signs you’re having an emotional affair. If ANY of these are happening with you OR with your spouse, please take action.
The “Seven-Year-Itch” Is Real … But You Can Avoid It.
The seven-year-itch is not inevitable doomsday. And even if you hit these predictable road bumps, they don’t have to derail intimacy.
Issues from Your In-Laws? What Can You Do?
It’s important to establish healthy boundaries with your in-laws. Otherwise, you can add a lot of stress to your marriage relationship. But how do you go about it?
What to Do When You’re Not Feeling It
What do you do when you're not feeling it? Most marriages go through this. You might not want to hear it, but love is a choice.
Ultimatums Are Bad, Right? Actually, They’re VITAL For a Thriving Marriage. Here’s Why.
But, you say, there’s no such thing as ultimatums in marriage. Really? Sure there are. Only they’re disguised as boundaries, conditions, even as love. It’s time we each wake up and realize there are conditions with love and relationships.
Actually, You CAN Change Your Spouse. Here’s How.
Do you help your spouse see both the person they are and could be? You can change your spouse — here's the secret.
Marriage’s Scratches and Dents Are Priceless
I’m not sure about you, but my marriage feels like it would now qualify for a scratches and dents sale. After 25 years and three children, my husband and I have weathered some storms. I sometimes wonder if our marriage has lost its newlywed beauty.
The Secret to “Happily Ever After” In Your Marriage
Is it really possible to find "happily ever after" in your marriage? Les and Leslie Parrott share how couples can make it real.
The Truth About Lusting: Why We Need to Reframe the Conversation about Men, Sin,...
Is there a difference between lusting and noticing? Lusting is a deliberate act. Sexual attraction is a hard-wired state of being over which we have no control.
If Wedding Vows Were Honest …
Wedding vows are promises. But not just any promises. Vows are markers that guide your marriage. We need vows that will shape and impact marriages.
“True or False?” Don’t Turn Love Into a Test
The test is never verbalized but still erodes our marriage's intimacy. What we are really asking is, “Can I trust you with my heart?”
Stressed? Here’s God’s Solution For Anxious Couples
Everyone has some stress in their life, but far too many couples are out-of-control busy and tell us that their lives are just too hectic and stressed out.
Why My Wife Was Sneaking Out of Bed at 2 A.M.
You might be shocked by why one former pastor's wife was sneaking out of bed at two in the morning (in the best kind of way).
Inject Some A.W.E. Into Your Marriage.
There’s never a better time than today to recommit to some basic marriage principles that can strengthen your bonds and inject a fresh wave of intimacy into your relationship. Here's how to inject some "A.W.E." into your marriage.
How To Be Your Spouse’s Biggest Cheerleader
How can you become your spouse’s cheerleader? Start is by applying the “one another” passages of the New Testament in your marriage.
7 Ways to Avoid an Affair (#4 is huge!)
No marriage is 100% bulletproof to temptation. As someone who got dangerously close, I needed to avoid an affair.
An Emotional Affair: How to Guard Your Marriage
Today's post from Sheila at To Love, Honor and Vacuum is a great look at why an emotional affair is dangerous, but also preventable.
Accept Your Spouse As They Are, Even With Changes
In whatever ways you and your spouse change with age, one thing about you should never change: that you accept your spouse just as they are.
Can Broken Trust Can Be Restored?
Your spouse has blown it. You don’t trust him/her anymore. But you want to save your marriage, despite your broken trust. How can you learn to heal? You’re going to need to rebuild your marriage from the bottom up.
How Married Do You Want to Be?
I want my wife to feel loved. I want us to feel connected, together, one. So let me ask you, how married do you want to be?
Persevering Love: How To Survive the Tough Times
Persevering love doesn’t just hang on through calamity by its fingernails; it hangs in there and thrives. It never gives up.
Significance and Security in Marriage Come From God
Marriages often fail because one spouse looks to the other to completely satisfy their innate need for significance and security in marriage.
1 Secret Every Man Must Know About Their Wives
This secret applies to women and men: if you really want to change your marriage, you have to understand the secret where you have power.
Marriage is More Than Free Sex and Housekeeping
Marriages are more than free sex and housekeeping, much more than just a contract, a routine, or an exchange of services.
6 Steps to Forgiveness in Your Marriage
Who is supposed to initiate the process of forgiveness in a marriage relationship: the offender or the offended? We don’t think it really matters. Find out why and the steps to forgiveness and healing.
5 Practical Ways to Rekindle Romance In Your Marriage
Have you “lost that loving feeling?” of dating and romance. We need to rekindle romance, the fun and enjoyment of marriage.
Sex Life Feel Broken? How to Rebuild It!
Sometimes circumstances turn our sex life into something negative, but don't despair. It's possible to reset your sex life!
Your Spouse’s Perspective Is Annoying. You Should Listen Anyway!
In the same way that I am benefited by reminding myself of God’s eternal perspective – I must remember that my husband also offers me a unique perspective that I shouldn’t so quickly dismiss.
“Fair” Marriage = Both Spouses Give 100 Percent
The 50/50 marriage is an arrangement of trade-offs and compromises, with spouses keeping score so one person never gets more or gives more than the other. Serving and submitting to one another are replaced by an emphasis on getting what is rightfully yours. Marriages only work when each spouse is giving 100 percent.
3 Small Changes Greatly Improve Your Marriage
What is it that makes changing so hard? Over the past few years I believe God has shown me some things about myself that make changing so difficult. These things are universal and I believe once I learn them and understand them it will make changes much easier.
What to Do When You Don’t Have Any Energy Left For Your Spouse
After a full day of work and dealing with the kids, do you feel like you don’t have much time or energy left for your spouse? We often hear from couples about the stress of their busy lives. They work full time, go to school, raise kids, serve at church, and they wonder why their marriages are having difficulty.
3 Golden Rules For Rekindling Romance
When the stress of life gets in the way of our romance, Cathy proactively applies what she calls the Three Golden Rules for Romance.
10 Things Kids Learn from Their Parents’ Marriage
Like everyone else, we don’t have a perfect marriage. But we’re both very proud of what we’ve developed over the years. Here are 10 things that I know that kids learn from their parents' marriage.