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Urgent Need: During the summer months, giving typically slows as the focus turns to time off and vacations. But family ministry doesn’t stop! We need your help to continue standing strong for life, marriage, and family. Will you become one of the supporters needed by 11:59 p.m. on August 31?

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God's work never stops. Will you help?

Urgent Need: During the summer months, giving typically slows as the focus turns to time off and vacations. But family ministry doesn’t stop! We need your help to continue standing strong for life, marriage, and family. Will you become 1 of the supporters needed before 11:59 p.m. on August 31?

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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.

Depressed middle-age couple seated in different directions. He’s toying with his wedding band, implying a troubled marriage and the need for a healing separation.

Why and How to Pursue a Healing Separation

Focus on the Family is dedicated to bringing healing and restoration to couples who are struggling in their marriage. But God’s design for marriage never included abuse, violence or coercive control. Even emotional abuse can bruise or severely harm a person’s heart, mind and soul. If you are in an abusive relationship, go to a safe place and call the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-7233 or visit them online at thehotline.org.

Close-up of a couple gently leaning in nose-to-nose, illustrating a relationship dynamic where a wife has higher sex drive than husband.

What if You Desire Sex More Than Your Husband Does?

Women who do not understand why their husband isn’t initiating sex can often personalize it and struggle emotionally.

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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.

A married couple sits on the floor with their hands pressed against their heads, symbolizing the holiday stress that they are facing.

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.

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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.