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Shared Journeys Communication Guide

These conversation starters can help couples connect when a spouse has received a cancer diagnosis. Consider using these questions to help articulate your feelings and health-care needs.

Good Advice for Everyone: Slow Down and Spend Time With Family

Shannon and Darren often didn’t make time for each other or their kids. But after a cancer diagnosis, the couple changed their priorities, placing more value on time spent together as a family. 

How to Support Your Spouse During Breast Cancer Treatment

A diagnosis of breast cancer will impact your marriage. Watch for God’s blessings amid the suffering that comes from breast cancer treatment. A great blessing could be found in your marriage.

Communicating With Your Spouse About a Cancer Diagnosis

Crises put significant strain on marriages. The tension can cause couples to drift apart. But by adequately communicating feelings and needs, couples can grow closer together even in stressful times.

A couple walks hand in hand at sunset, reflecting the quiet strength found when knowing God can heal your marriage.

When You’re at the End of Your Ability, God Can Heal Your Marriage

When things get tough in a marriage and some change is required, we might not want to do it. But if we know that we ultimately have to deal with God, we submit to His higher calling to us.

Steven and Mary Beth Chapman

Steven Curtis Chapman: Beauty in the Brokenness

The Chapmans are celebrating 32 years of marriage. Steven and Mary Beth met in college and married young. But married life was much harder than Steven had anticipated.

A Marriage on the Brink

The storms of life had her marriage at risk for divorce, but a timely broadcast showed Barbara a love she’d never known

Drawing of Husband and Wife Focusing on their marriage while handling the responsibilities of their family

For the Good of Your Family

If you’re the parents of children with special needs, there is little doubt that making marriage the top priority is difficult. But you can do a few simple things to strengthen your marriage.

Steven Curtis Chapman: Marriage in the Real World

The Bible makes it clear that we will never master the art of the perfect relationship this side of heaven. Instead, it calls us to humbly, patiently and gently care for and bear with each other.

When Sexual Assault Affects Your Marriage

The aftermath of a wife’s sexual assault has profound effects on her marriage. Helping a husband understand how rape has affected his wife is critical to helping her recover.

Finding God’s Blessings When Your Spouse is Ill

Laura Story shares about her broken dreams, her struggles with wanting God to fix her husband, and how she’s found the Lord’s blessings amid the disappointments of life.

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Don’t Let the Storms of Life Wash Your Marriage Away

Regardless of where you are in your marriage journey or what issues come your way, here are few tips to help keep you united through the storms of life.

Big Wins In Spite Of Bad Calls

When Bo Mitchell’s dad struck out during the 1956 World Series, many people thought the umpire’s decision was wrong. Thirty-five years later, Bo was also on the receiving end of a bad call.

Jay and Katherine Wolf: A Beautiful Life

Jay and Katherine Wolf’s picture of marriage radically changed from the one they imagined. Katherine had a massive brain stem stroke. She was just 26. When she woke from her coma, her right side was paralyzed, and she couldn’t swallow, speak or walk.

Tammy Trent: A Story of Hope After Loss

On Tammy Trent’s road to healing, she learned to give her pain purpose. She’s found her greatest joy comes from encouraging others who are facing a hard season in life.

Remembering 9/11

The memory of 9/11 has had an undeniable impact on our nation and on our families. How much more profound has the impact been on the victims who survived the tragedy and on the families of those who died?

Couple sitting together with their arms around each other, gazing out at beautiful sunset

Holding Tight in the Hard Times

It’s not only possible to survive a crisis, but difficult times can also be redeemed by God and transformed into experiences that will help make your marriage stronger. 

My Marriage and a Terminal Illness

Bo Stern writes of her husband’s struggle with ALS, confident that amid this trauma and turmoil, God is bringing beauty to their battle.

two persons walking on gray road

Infertility Causes and Treatments

There is no ‘typical’ infertility patient, and the causes of infertility vary widely.

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When Reality Sets In

Few things in life test wedding vows like chronic illness.