Ginger Kolbaba was an award-winning author, editor and speaker. She was a contributing editor to Focus on the Family magazine and a columnist for Positive Note magazine. Her many books include Your Best Happily Ever After and The Old Fashioned Way.
You don’t just marry your spouse … you marry their family. And that can be difficult. Learn how to set healthy boundaries and love your in-laws.
Remarriage may start a clean relationship slate, but it doesn’t wipe away memories and old habits. Your best response to your spouse’s remarriage mistakes may be uncommonly simple.
Have hope. You can take steps to have healthy, God-honoring sex and intimacy in marriage.
If the Botsfords thought the prognosis couldn’t get worse, they discovered that it could. “Do you want to terminate this pregnancy?” the doctor asked. Both Kristin and Kevin immediately said no.
Learn how embracing your God-given gender roles in marriage can bring vitality, joy and security into your relationship.
Taking back your marriage from chronic pain
With the chaos of kids, jobs and schedules, it’s easy to feel disconnected. But there are simple ways you and your spouse can reconnect your love.
Breaking off the engagement is difficult, but if you have doubts about getting married, it’s best to take things slowly and prayerfully.
Though you may be social distancing or “quarantined” at home, you and your spouse can still celebrate Easter in meaningful ways.
What do you do when your spouse wants to end the marriage but you don’t want a divorce?
Help your teens make a smoother transition as they head back to school.
Prepare your teens to get along with the people they’ll live with in college
When a marriage ends, it’s normal to mourn the loss of what can no longer be. Those times of grieving are a part of the healing process, and they offer opportunities to show love to your new spouse.
Instant-family couples aren’t afforded the same luxuries as first-time married couples. They don’t get privacy or generous amounts of uninterrupted time together like pre-kid couples do.
Help teens choose what works today without compromising what has worked in the past.
