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Urgent Need: Right now, Focus on the Family is facing a $2 million ministry shortfall. We are moving forward in faith that God will provide for our critical marriage and family programs, but we need your help. Will you stand in the gap with a vital gift before 11:59 p.m. on August 31?
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Marriage Success

Husbands, Your Mission Should You Choose to Accept It…

As husbands, our call to adventure takes place the day we stand at the altar with our bride in front of friends and family.

practicing patience in marriage

6 Ways to Be More Patient in Marriage

Practical steps for developing a fruit of the Spirit in your marriage — patience — which will help you better love your spouse

A newlywed couple shares a loving moment in the kitchen as the husband washes dishes, representing the need for good marriage advice for the first year of marriage—building connection through everyday moments.

What’s the Best Marriage Advice for the First Year of Marriage?

What will help you navigate your first year together? Two young couples reveal the marriage advice they wish they’d known before the wedding.

A happy couple relaxes on a park bench, leaning into each other and smiling, symbolizing the joy and connection that comes when you refresh your marriage.

Do You Need Refreshment in Your Marriage?

We need refreshment — physical, mental, spiritual and emotional. We need to pause, check in with ourselves and our spouse to make sure we take time to restore and replenish our whole being.

happy couple sits on a couch during a marriage counseling session, demonstrating why marriage counseling can be helpful even if you’re not having issues.

Why Marriage Counseling Is Helpful — Even When Your Marriage Isn’t in a Crisis

If your marriage isn’t going as well as you had hoped, here are a few reasons that marital counseling may be a good idea — even if you’re not thinking of calling it quits.

A young woman whispers into her fiancé’s ear while he looks surprised, representing the excitement and curiosity of asking important questions to ask your fiancé.

100 Questions To Ask Your Fiancé Before Tying the Knot

Marriage is a life-long relationship in which vows are made to your mate and to God, and therefore, never to be taken lightly. Be sure you really, truly know your fiancé before making that life-long commitment.

A young couple sits with a mature couple in fellowship around a couch. Marriage mentoring can be important in helping young couples navigate the issues they will face together. Here are five ways to find a mentor couple.

Marriage Mentoring: Five Keys to Help Find a Mentor Couple

Marriage mentoring can be important in helping young couples navigate their lifelong journey together. Here are five ways to find a mentor couple.

A husband hugs his wife tenderly and empathetically. Here are five ways to support your spouse after a job loss.

Five Ways to Support Your Spouse after a Job Loss

A spouse’s job loss can be a trying and uncertain time. But it’s important to remind them that their job is not their whole identity. They are also an eternal child of God with purpose beyond their work.

Photo of a man and woman sitting on a couch with their heads in their hands, clearly overwhelmed by their child, who is bouncing on the couch behind them. How you manage parenting stress and parental burnout in marriage can either harm your relationship or create deeper intimacy and happiness.

How To Cope With Parental Burnout as a Couple

Learning to manage parenting stress in marriage can strengthen your relationship with your spouse. Here are several way you can cope with parenting stress, together.

Two couples sit in a circle in discussion with one another. Finding a mentor couple willing to counsel you and your spouse takes time and effort. Here are practices you might find helpful when learning how to find a mentor couple.

How To Find a Mentor Couple for Your Marriage

Finding a mentor couple willing to counsel you and your spouse takes time and effort. Here are some practices you might find helpful.

A couple sitting close together, smiling and engaging in meaningful conversation, symbolizing the need for making room for the important things in your marriage.

Making Room for the Important Things in Your Marriage

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.

A couple sitting at a table, sharing a meaningful conversation over coffee, symbolizing the effort to learn from mistakes to improve their marriage.

Learn From Your Mistakes to Improve Your Marriage

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.

A woman covers her mouth and jumps for joy as a man proposes to her on a beach in a sunset. A future marriage begins with the proposal: “Will you marry me?” Here some conversation starters to help plan your future marriage.

24 Questions to Help You Plan for Your Future Marriage

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.

Validating Feelings Creates Emotional Connection in Marriage

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 …

How To Be Kind to Your Husband (Even When You Don’t ‘Get’ Him)

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 …

Two towels folded into the shape of swans forming a heart, surrounded by red and white rose petals on a bed, symbolizing the importance of receiving Christian sex advice for the wedding night and beyond.

Christian Sex Advice for the Wedding Night and Beyond

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.

Mismatched Marriage: When One Spouse Is an Unbeliever

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.

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How to Defend and Stand up for Your Spouse

Will Smith’s desire to stand up for his wife raises the question: What’s the best way to defend your spouse?

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At Home With Kirk and Chelsea Cameron

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.

A couple lying on the floor surrounded by heart confetti, symbolizing the power of commitment in marriage, as they gaze into each other’s eyes with love and happiness.

The Power of Commitment in Marriage

It is Christ alone who gives us the power to love others in a committed way.