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Urgent Need: As the back-to-school season begins, families are facing mounting pressure—tough choices, cultural confusion, and strained relationships.

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Communication

Decoding communication with your kids happens when a parent talks with and listens to their child

Decoding Communication With Your Children

Understanding neurological differences between boys and girls can lead to stronger parent-child communication.

A group of four friends is sitting at a wooden table in a cozy café with exposed brick walls, engaged in a deep conversation. One woman is talking while the others listen attentively, showing different reactions—thoughtfulness, concern, and curiosity. The setting suggests a supportive environment, but it also raises the question of when to talk to a professional counselor instead of just talking to friends.

When to See a Therapist Instead of Just Asking Friends for Help

When you have problems with your marriage, you might reach out to friends, who bring value that a professional can’t. But when should you get professional help?

The Husband Whisperer

Create a heart-to-heart connection, even when your man is reluctant.

How to Strengthen Your Marriage Through Doing the Dishes

Researchers found that it’s important for couples to share the load of doing the dishes. Here’s my takeaway: Women who had a husband who helped with washing dishes were happier in their marriage.

Wife kissing husband's forehead.

How to Reconnect When You’re Lonely in Your Marriage

Experts identify seasons of marriage prone to producing loneliness. The challenge is to anticipate those lonely periods, learn how to navigate them and turn them into growth opportunities.

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Faith Conversation: Earnest Love

Wholehearted love can be recognized by the forgiveness — the covering of sins — that’s freely shared. When you earnestly love your spouse, you help foster grace and forgiveness in your marriage.

When Talking Doesn’t Come Easily

I have a great conversation tool I’ve used for 25 years. Throughout your day, record things to share with your wife. Making notes is a simple act that’s the basis for what I call “couple talk times.”

Serious illustration of a wife interrogating her husband with a lie detector and a lamp

Can You Be Totally Honest With Your Wife?

 One man accepts the challenge to be perfectly honest for a year. He failed many times; however, his wife prefers the man of integrity that he has become through the efforts of being more edifying.

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Navigating Life Transitions

Transitions — such as job changes, moves or new stages of parenting — bring their share of challenges to marriage. These changes can be fertile ground for stress and conflict, but they don’t have to be.

Choose Wisely… Words Matter

In marriage and other relationships, words are powerful. Search for those words that will carry beauty into your home and your heart.

Facebook and Your Marriage

Although Facebook can be fun, it’s not always the best thing for a marriage. When you get wrapped up in your online social life, even innocent interactions can divert your time and attention.

Who Did You Marry?: Understanding Your Spouse

People who have been staunchly committed to faith and family fall into trouble when they don’t grow with their spouse. We need to continually “update” our knowledge about our husband or wife.

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Why Couples Stop Talking

Good communication is the lifeblood of a successful marriage, so when spouses stop talking at a deep level, their marriages slowly die. A marriage will only be as good as a couple’s communication.

Wife with her arms around her husband

Honest Affirmation Can Make Your Marriage Great

Amid the busyness of life, Erin Smalley incorporates simple affirmation into her marriage relationship and watches her husband thrive.

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Connecting With Your Emotional Teens

When you have an emotional teen, there are three things that your teen may need from you.

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Effective Family Communication

Do you feel like walls are being put up between you and your teen. Try these foundational ways to better connect and develop effective family communication.

A man and a woman sit outside next to a lake.

Conquering Communication

In our lack of preparedness, communication can be frustrating and often leads to a lack of unity in the marriage.

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My Attitude Toward My Spouse

In marriage, it’s important to check our attitudes and discern whether our thinking is based on truth or misperception.

‘Sorry’ Seems to Be the Hardest Word

Asking for forgiveness is an admission that you’ve made a poor decision – and it can be humiliating to admit you’re wrong – but kids say they respect their parents more when they apologize.

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Talking About Sensitive Issues

Talking about sensitive issues isn’t easy, but it can make your marriage the vehicle that drives both of you closer to God.