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Erin-Smalley

Erin Smalley

Erin Smalley serves as a strategic spokesperson for Focus on the Family’s marriage ministry. Erin is a licensed professional counselor with a private practice (Smalley Marriage), as well as an author and conference speaker. She has coauthored 12 books, including Reconnected, Crazy Little Thing Called Marriage and The Wholehearted Wife. She and her husband, Dr. Greg Smalley, host a weekly podcast called Crazy Little Thing Called Marriage, and co-created Ready to Wed, a complete premarital curriculum for engaged couples.

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A New Year’s Resolution for Wives

Wives, what if you made your New Year’s resolution to give your husband a new marriage? The Greatest Commandment will show you how to be so well cared for that you can give to your husbands and your children from a place of abundance instead of a place of emptiness.

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Navigating Holiday Stress

If you and your spouse look for unexpected gifts in your life this Christmas, you just may find a blessing in working together to manage family dynamics during the holiday season.

A joyful couple stands close together, holding hands and smiling, symbolizing the beauty of dreaming together in a relationship.

We Can Build This Dream Together

The most powerful benefit of dreaming together in marriage is the synergy it creates. What you can do together is far greater than what you can do alone.

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Five More Ways to Grow Closer as a Couple

Loving and happy marriages are built on the simplest of things — commitment, accepting each other’s differences, selflessness, treating each other in an understanding way, and resiliency. Jim and Jean Daly and Greg and Erin Smalley share insights, humor and wonderful stories about what makes marriage work well.

Two women sitting on a park bench, one visibly upset and holding a tissue, while the other offers quiet support, symbolizing challenges like how to stay married when your friends are divorcing.

How To Stay Married When Your Friends Are Divorcing

When a friend goes through divorce, you’re at a higher risk for divorce. But you’re not doomed to follow that trend. If you build and strengthen your marriage, you can make it stronger than ever.

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Responding to Your Husband’s Secret: Porn

When you discover that your husband has been hiding a sexual sin like pornography, it will be difficult to hear — but I encourage you to allow your heart to fully grieve.