The 2nd Half of Marriage. Prepping for Life Post Kids.
If you don’t choose to move toward each other in the second half of marriage, you fill up the free time with independent pursuits instead.
Sometimes Your Spouse Doesn’t Want Your Help. Here’s Why.
In married life we can misread and overstep our bounds. Even when this is under the umbrella of trying to help, beware of overreaching.
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 to Get Your Husband to Share His Emotions
It's tough for your husband to share his emotions with you. Here's how to help your "tough dude" to open up at home.
36 Conversations That Will Turn Your Spouse On
Married couples should flirt and have intimate conversations to stoke the fire of our interests. Here are 36 ideas for you.
102 Words of Affirmation Every Wife Longs to Hear
Women often have the feeling that life is coming at them with the speed of a fighter jet and the chaos of a riot. They need these words of affirmation.
3 Keys To Overcoming Obstacles In Your Marriage
I had to fight that internal battle to ignore fear and listen to the spirit of love so I could see, “You are not the obstacle in our marriage—you are my partner in overcoming obstacles.”
3 Biblical Ways to Support Your Husband
Don't confuse supporting your husband with babying your husband. Or with being bullied by him. Biblical support looks much different.
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.
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.
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.
Words of Encouragement Can Revolutionize Your Marriage. Here’s How.
Let’s be our spouse’s chief encourager. No one else can offer them words of encouragement the way we can. It’s our job to survey whatever threatens our spouse’s physical and spiritual well-being and cooperate with God to say, “I have some good news for you. Some wonderful news…”
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.
The 4 Common Mistakes Newlyweds Make
I’ve given my life to helping newlyweds prepare start their marriages off right. Here are four common mistakes I see them make.
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.
Words Can Bring You Down
Words can bring you down, burn down a marriage, a family, a church, a workplace, a culture. It’s happening all around us.
My Spouse Watches Porn: Now What?
What can you do if your spouse watches porn? As you seek authentic intimacy in your marriage, here are a few practical steps to take.
How to Stop a Financial Fight Before it Starts
This is an excerpt from Cherie and Brian Lowe’s book, Your Money, Your Marriage, about how to avoid a financial fight.
Stressed Out Spouse: 10 Ways to Help
Ever feel like your stressed out spouse is short with you? What are you going to do to help your spouse through stress? Here are 10 keys.
What If Your Private Arguments Went Public?
What if the arguments you had with your spouse was broadcast out for others to hear? What if every disagreement with you and your spouse was broadcast on Facebook live for all the world to see and hear?
Practice Your Way to Better Sex
For most couples it takes years to make sex work like clockwork, where you’re both enjoying it, and you both climax. Better sex is absolutely possible, if you practice!
Are You Always Irritated at Your Spouse?
Are you always irritated with your spouse? Funny how some things that attracted you to your lovely spouse now drive you up the wall.
Negative Emotion is Vital For a Healthy Relationship
An intolerance of OTHERS’ negative emotion is precluded by an intolerance of our own negative emotion. This dynamic is a marriage killer.
My Husband Won’t Touch Me … Now What?
At one point it felt like my husband did everything not to touch me. Here are four ways we recaptured the magic.
It’s Not About the Nail? Actually, Sometimes It IS About the Nail
It's Not About the Nail was a popular marriage video that made the rounds (we've done a post on it!. This post is the other side of the argument that video is making. Sometimes, it IS about the nail. But even if you don't know what I'm talking about, this is worth your time to read. Enjoy!
Actually, Communication in Marriage Isn’t What’s Most Important. What Is Might Surprise You.
What you have probably heard is the number one problem is communication in marriage. I believe this is a symptom of a deeper problem.
7 Christian Marriage Myths. Does #3 Surprise You?
The hard truth about a Christian marriage is that your marriage will not be perfect just because you’re Christians. Don't buy these myths.
How to Treat “Soul Cancer” In Your Marriage
As you look at your own life, don’t wait for issues to fester, allowing soul cancer to grow. Find those who can help you prep for surgery.
Take Off The Disguise When You’re With Your Spouse
I do it because wearing a disguise is comfortable and easy, while being real requires vulnerability. Being real requires courage and risk.
How to Unconditionally Love An Imperfect Spouse
The call to cherish your wife or husband is a call to respond in an understanding way to a sometimes imperfect and even unhealthy spouse.
How to Minimize Marriage’s Little Annoyances.
Here’s the truth: the chances are very high that some of these little annoyances your spouse does, won’t ever change. So what do you do?
Words Can Burn it All Down
Words can burn it all down. Words can destroy your family, they can destroy your heart, they can destroy your marriage.
3 Obstacles to Forgiveness, And How to Fight Them
Once you identify obstacles to forgiveness, they tend to dissolve and allow you to proceed with your conscious wish to forgive.
Is It Way Too Easy for Your Husband to Push Your Anger Button?
If we want to get emotionally healthy, with ourselves and with others, we need to be willing to go below the surface of our anger.
Don’t Let Little Annoyances Become Huge Problems
Identifying little annoyances allows you to train yourself to let them go, and refuse to give them power over your attitude.
10 Questions High Sex Drive Spouses Should Ask
Are you the high sex drive husband, and you’re wondering what to do because your wife rarely wants sex? Here are 10 questions you should ask.
How to Build Trust in a Marriage
After being married nearly 20 years, Kristen and I work like crazy to be on the same team and to build trust with one another.
How to Fall in Love All Over Again
Celebrating love usually isn’t something that “comes over” you. You don’t just sit around and wait to fall in love again.
Husbands: God Doesn’t Want You to Change Your Wife
God has not called you to change your wife. Instead, He has commanded you to love her as Christ loves the church.
How to Win Every Confrontation in Your Marriage
In confrontation in marriage, this rule of thumb has proved itself to be true over and over again: The one who listens the best first wins.
The Meaning of Your Marriage Vows: “As Long As We Both Shall Live”
Some of the most powerful, life-giving, exciting words you will ever agree to are said during your marriage vows: as long as we both shall live.
Staying Power: 5 Signs Your Marriage Will Make It
People often ask us, how can I tell if my marriage has staying power? Sometimes it can be hard to tell, but here are 5 keys.
Husbands, Help Carry Your Wife’s Mental Load.
Women’s mental load is not a problem with men as much as it is a problem with the way our whole culture sees the responsibilities of women.
10 Tips for Becoming a More Romantic Husband
So what is being romantic? Love is a feeling; romance is love in action. Romance is something you do to express the love that you feel.
4 Ways to Dig Marriage Roots That Last a Lifetime
I can’t fix everything in my marriage but there are a few things I can control. Here are 4 ways I can “strengthen the roots” of our marriage.
Finding Hope in Every Season of Marriage
Perhaps you are in a season of marriage where you are not walking in unison as a couple. Despite how difficult and painful this season might be, trust that God is working and has not abandoned you!
How to Actually Enjoy Your Spouse This Christmas
I believe that Christmas can be a season of joy and fun and love for you and your husband. It can be a time when you make memories together and strengthen your marriage, rather than letting it run on auto-pilot and increasing the tension between the two of you.