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.
Connecting with Your Spouse
This date idea will give you the opportunity to invest as a couple in the well-being of someone else. You’ll likely experience a deeper marital bond and sense of intimacy through serving together.
We don’t always notice changes in our spouse, particularly when we’re with him or her day in and day out, but we can be sure that changes are taking place.
We have the choice of how we will perceive the opportunities God presents to us in the new year. We can let the challenges overwhelm us, or we can encourage each other to trust God.
Dr. Greg Smalley hated making the bed but realized his resistance had become selfish. Read how he decided to serve and sacrifice for his wife.
Negative body image can lead to dissatisfying or infrequent sex, and women who don’t like their bodies tend to take fewer emotional risks, including sharing intimate thoughts and desires.
Sex is a wonderful gift given by God to a married couple as a means of experiencing a sacred union.
Sex is a wonderful gift given by God to a married couple as a means of experiencing a sacred union.
Mark and Jill Savage’s commitment to relational growth required them to find creative solutions to their differing sexual needs. And they discovered how to be both parents and lovers.
A couple can build such a satisfying sexual relationship, getting to know each other so well, growing in such intimacy, that the thought of an affair holds little appeal.
Depending on their ages, children respond differently to the losses they feel from moving. Parents need to help them understand that with all endings come opportunities for new beginnings.
Susan Miller and her family have moved 10 times, so she’s familiar with the roller coaster of emotions. Susan’s learned that getting everyone connected to the new community makes a big difference in the adjustment.
When a husband and wife are getting to know each other, the special kindness they show each other comes easily. But as the years pass, that kindness often falls by the wayside.
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Of all the seasons of the year, Christmas is the best time to set our “Me-and-God” theology aside and discover afresh what it means to participate in the Global Brotherhood of the Redeemed.
Sexual intimacy can be complicated. Most couples bring some kind of baggage into marriage. Reclaim and redeem the beautiful gift of sexual intimacy in your marriage.
Since love is shown through purposeful action, so we need to find ways each day to make the expression of our love a priority. We must study our spouse to know what makes him or her feel loved.
A husband should care for his wife with the same intensity he nourishes his own body. So husbands must spend time every day doing things that help a wife feel loved.
Culture says that chemistry and compatibility are keys to an enjoyable marriage, but character and commitment are really the essential qualities.
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