Marriage requires making room for someone else in your life. To add this relationship to your life requires letting go of some of your other commitments and giving your spouse priority consideration.
Marriage Success
Most of us in second marriages can clearly see that adding education, personal awareness and intentionality to our current marriage can create a new, mutually satisfying relationship.
If you put off planning for your future marriage until after the honeymoon, you’ll miss valuable time getting to know the one you’ve chosen to partner with for the rest of your life. Here are some questions to discuss that will hopefully help your journey.
Estimated reading time: 6 minutes “Why can’t you care about how I feel?” My wife, Erin, was in tears as she stormed out of the bedroom. Not a great start to our evening together. She’d already been crying in the bathroom when I got home from work. I asked Erin what was wrong, and she …
Estimated reading time: 6 minutes I stood in line to board the airplane, wondering if I should say something to the woman behind me whose conversation I could hear. As a social researcher, I often overhear strangers wondering about a question I’ve studied: Why do men do that? Most of the time, I resist the …
The conflicts and disappointments you’ll encounter in marriage will have little to do with whether you married the wrong person. More likely they’ll reveal whether you’re willing for God to make you a great lover.
While there’s no one-size-fits-all formula that will instantly revolutionize a mismatched marriage, a few principles can contribute to the health of a relationship.
Will Smith’s desire to stand up for his wife raises the question: What’s the best way to defend your spouse?
Life doesn’t play out like a sit-com with everything wrapped up in 30 minutes. Ask Kirk and Chelsea Cameron who’ve experienced both TV and real-life relationships.
It is Christ alone who gives us the power to love others in a committed way.
Warning signs alert us when the Enemy attacks your marriage. Learn how to be victorious against the Devil’s schemes.
Love is a sacrifice. We should treat our spouse as someone of great value and care for their needs. But sacrifice should be motivated by love, not fear.
When we feel threatened, we build emotional walls that don’t allow our spouse into the deepest parts of our hearts and minds. The emotional distance can cause marital problems.
Learn how embracing your God-given gender roles in marriage can bring vitality, joy and security into your relationship.
Your husband’s sex drive changes as he ages, and illness can also affect it. But an encouraging wife can make a big difference.
It’s hard work to rebuild trust and intimacy after the betrayal of infidelity, but when both partners are willing to do the work, it’s worth it.
When my husband deployed, my world fell apart. But God pieced me — and us — back together, stronger than ever.
If we want our marriage partnership to be beautiful, meaningful and lasting, then we ought to be living out God’s grace by extending it. And that means building each other up one word at a time.
Who’s the spiritual leader in your family? Some husbands may be intimidated by their wife and don’t want to fail, so they do nothing. Maybe the best solution is to let God work in their lives.
Imagine if couples were willing to give up some of the good things in their marriage to let the better things thrive — and if they said goodbye to the activities that take resources from their relationship.
