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Focus on the Family’s Position on Marriage and Divorce

What is Focus on the Family’s position on divorce and remarriage?

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Husband Refuses to Work

What can I do about a husband who won’t get a job?

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Keeping Sexual Passion Alive in Marriage

How does a man stay sexually interested in his wife after years and years of marriage? Jesus said that anyone who looks at a woman with lust has already committed adultery with her in his heart (Matthew 5:28), but this strikes me as being terribly unrealistic. In my experience, sexual attraction has always been closely …

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Minimizing the Impact of Depression on Your Family

How can I prevent my struggles with depression and anxiety from having a negative impact on my wife and children? It’s bad enough having to cope with these debilitating feelings, but the thought that I’m making life difficult for my family is almost too much to bear. What should I do?

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Parents and Financial Expectations for Adult Daughter’s Wedding

Is it our responsibility to cover the expenses for our adult daughter’s wedding when she and her husband-to-be have good, professional jobs and earn more than we do? They expect us to do so even though we have limited financial resources after putting our children through college. Do you think this is right? We feel …

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Preserving Romance in Marriage

Is it common for a couple to “fall out of love”? We’ve been married a couple of years, and already I sense that something has begun to change in our relationship. The original “glow” of our romance seems to have faded. To be honest, our life together is becoming rather routine and dull. Is something …

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Scriptural Basis for Definition of “Marriage” and “Family”

Where in the Bible does Focus on the Family get its definition of “marriage” and “family”? Whenever I browse your website I come away feeling excluded and marginalized. I know you’ll disagree with what I’m about to say, but I consider myself a dedicated Christian and a homosexual. My partner and I love each other …

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Spiritual Leadership in the Home

What does it mean to be the “spiritual head” of a family?

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Stepparent Relationship Problems

What should I do about conflicts between my child and my new spouse? I was remarried last summer, and though my 10-year-old daughter was warm and friendly towards my husband during the three years we were dating, her attitude has changed drastically since the wedding. Now they fight constantly and I’m always caught in the …

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Unsure About Whether to Confess an Affair to Spouse

Should I tell my husband that I’ve been unfaithful to him? I recently ended a relationship with another man, but I have serious doubts about the wisdom of revealing this to my spouse. As things stand, he has no idea that anything of this kind has been going on. I’ve confessed my sin before God, …

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Wife Never Really Loved Husband

Is it possible for me to fall in love with a spouse for whom I never had any romantic feelings in the first place?

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Questions and Concerns About Masturbation

Is sexual self-stimulation a sin, or just a harmless and natural way to release sexual energy? What can a person do to break the habit of masturbation if they feel guilty about it?

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The Bible on Premarital Sex and Sexual Morality

Where does the Bible say that sex before marriage is wrong? Isaac and Rebekah didn’t have a church wedding. Apparently they just slept together and that was it! And what about Joseph and Mary? Why was it OK for them to travel to Bethlehem together before they were married?

Can I get a resource recommendation from Focus?

Can I get a resource recommendation from Focus?

Do you offer any help to military families?

Do you offer any help for military families?

How can I get started as a writer or get my writing published?

How can I get started as a writer or get my writing published?

How will my donations be used?

How will my donations be used?

My family is facing financial problems. Can you help?

My family is facing financial problems. Can you help?

What is Focus on the Family’s mailing address?

What is Focus on the Family’s mailing address?

When will I begin receiving the magazine I ordered?

I just signed up to receive a magazine from Focus. When will the first issue arrive?