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Marital Communication

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10 Tips for Initiating a Conversation with Your Spouse

If you’re having difficulty initiating conversations with your spouse, these 10 tips might make the process easier.

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The Best Way to Apologize to Your Spouse

A thriving marriage requires two spouses who are good at giving apologies that reflect personal responsibility.

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Learn to Identify Your Emotions in Marriage

Using “soul words” helps develop a greater awareness of your inner experiences. And once you begin the awareness process, you will be amazed at how thoughts, feelings and reactions become clearer to you.

Communicate in Marriage

How To Help Your Spouse Talk To You

Relationships are like a dance. Communication takes effort, but with practice, each of us can be a safe place for our loved one’s tender needs.

Is ‘Overwhelm’ Hurting Your Marriage?

Insidious, overwhelm is the urgent that competes with – and often wins – in the daily war between the important and the urgent.

Improve Your Marriage With Boundaries

As a couple, decide on your boundary lines. How can you respect one another when issues arise and you don’t agree?

Reset Your Marriage by Spelling Love L-I-S-T-E-N

Couples who have stood the test of time have developed relationship glue — big and small acts of kindness, respect, and thoughtfulness extended to one another on a consistent basis.

Date Your Mate

If we are not diligent to date our mate, the business and busyness of life can infringe until we spend less time together now that we are married than we did before our vows.

Nothing To Hide

How to Practice Total Honesty in Marriage

Practicing complete honesty in marriage and having nothing to hide isn’t as scary as you think. Being transparent can transform your marriage.

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Remodeling Stress and Your Marriage

4 renovation principles to keep your marriage strong

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Find Your Hot-Button Issues to Improve Your Marriage

Couples often unknowingly push each other’s hot-button issues and cause frustrating arguments. Learn how you can stop this reactive cycle.

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My Spouse Disagrees With My Dream: A Guide for Mentors

When one spouse wants to pursue their dream, but the other disagrees, what can they do? You can help them find a win-win solution.

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‘One Another’ Marriage Devotional: Do Not Lie to One Another

“Do not lie to one another” means we must also avoid lies of omission. Have you been leaving out facts or hiding anything from your spouse lately?

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I Want To Have Another Baby, but My Spouse Doesn’t

Deciding whether to have another baby is one of the most difficult decisions a couple will make. If you’re facing this issue, how can you navigate it together in a healthy and biblical way?

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Difficult Decisions May Leave You At an Impasse

Navigating difficult decisions as a couple

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‘One Another’ Marriage Devotional: Do Not Grumble Against One Another

You just had to vent a little. At least that’s what you told yourself. How bad could a bit of grumbling really be?

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Fishing for Connection With My Husband

Understanding my husband’s hobbies brought us closer together

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Flirt Your Way to a Better Marriage

Refresh and reignite your marriage relationship by finding a way to flirt with each other and have fun together again

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Bond Intellectually Through Shared Podcasts

A marriage insight

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The Spiritual Battle for Your Marriage

Based on his book Defending Your Marriage, Dr. Tim and Noreen Muehlhoff share about the reality of spiritual warfare against marriages, and how to combat the enemy’s lies with the truth of God.