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Divorced: What to Do When

A divorced man or woman faces enormous psychological, emotional and financial adjustments.

New Challenges, New Normal

Upon returning home from deployment, it’s typical for service members to feel out of sorts.

Preparing for Your Time Apart

You might not feel like planning, but a little inconvenience now can save a lot of heartache later.

Devotional: Facing Adversity

The reality of the presence of adversity in life is a given.

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Your Time Apart: Making it Through and Back

The goodbye is over — good for you! You’ve made it through what was most likely the toughest moment of your time apart. The next thing you have to look forward to? The reunion! Here are some tips for making it from the moment after goodbye through the readjustment period with your health, sanity and …

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Serving With the Right Attitude

Serving your spouse should be considered an opportunity and conducted with joy. Jesus was the perfect example of serving with the right attitude.

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Devotional: Love and Respect

To assume that our ability to love another person has its source in our own hearts carries with it the potential to be embarrassing, painful, or dangerous.

Humility and Self-Forgetfulness

While humility is not often praised in society today, it is a characteristic that Christ displayed at every turn. Marriage offers the perfect testing grounds for humility.

Dr. Bill Maier on Premarital Sex

Dr. Bill Maier addresses the issue of premarital sex.

Ben Woody: Firefighter, EMT and Husband

Marriages have tough times regardless of a spouse’s career choice.

Thirty-Three Months at War

‘I’m not ashamed of my experiences because I know … I’ll be able to use what I’ve been through to help and bless another. …’

Devotional: Sex and Intimacy

To yield to one another sexually in marriage is to step into God-created intimacy.

Emotional Affairs

Is there anything wrong with having a close friend of the opposite sex after you’re married? While there may be no clear answer, there are compelling reasons to be cautious about opposite-sex friendships outside of your spouse’s company.

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Ten Tips for Protecting Your Cross-Cultural Marriage From Outside Influences

External stressors are magnified in cross cultural marriages because of disappointments when cultural assumptions are unmet. Developing a shared identity is the key to growth.

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It’s About TIME: Building the CORE of Your Marriage

Busyness is the enemy of marriage. Restoring intimacy to marriage requires an intentional effort to spend time communicating openly and empathically with one another.

Devotional: Spiritual Foundations

Spiritual intimacy between a husband and wife provides a safe covering.

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Healing the Emotionally Abusive Marriage

Emotional abuse within marriage is never God’s will. It is possible to break the cycle of abuse within your marriage and to experience God’s restoration.

The Role of Friendship in Marriage

Marriage without friendship cannot work in our culture.

Building Hedges Around Your Marriage

A hedge is a protective investment that will help your relationship to flourish like never before.

Your City or Mine?

What you decide will change at least one of your lives in dramatic way. But as important is how you decide.