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Moving forward in faith but we need your help!

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

Carlos and Alexa PenaVega sit on a picnic blanket with their three young children, smiling in a scenic outdoor setting.

The PenaVegas: Growing in Faith

The PenaVegas grew in faith as their relationship progressed, and their shared love for God became a cornerstone of their marriage.

A joyful couple rides a scooter down a scenic road, sharing laughter with their spouse as they embrace the adventure together.

Sharing Laughter With Your Spouse Helps You Heal

Enjoying life and laughing together again as a couple is important after experiencing a hard season together. Here’s how to have fun again.

Training Day: How Husbands Can Prepare for Adversity

As I strive to honor God in my marriage, I am consistently learning—and observing—that a godly marriage is strengthened when a husband meets the highs and lows of life with consistent faithfulness, love, and devotion.

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.

A close-up of a person’s foot breaking through a damaged wooden floor, symbolizing the struggles and challenges in learning how to fix a broken marriage.

How to Fix a Broken Relationship: Find the Termites

Long-term problems, like termites, can eat away at the foundation of your marriage. But you can fix a broken relationship by exterminating them.

pray with your spouse - 3 prayers to pray with your spouse

3 Prayers to Pray With Your Spouse

Enrich your relationship by praying as a couple

A smiling couple, Carrin and Jeremy Eyman, takes a close-up selfie outdoors, symbolizing their journey of resilience and support while facing military PTSD.

Navigating Military PTSD and Trauma in Marriage

A Naval Corpsman’s injury in Afghanistan changed his career and his marriage. But God used the trauma for good.

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 couple dancing with each other in their living room, enjoying their real-life fairy tale marriage.

Reconcilable Differences: A Real-Life Fairy Tale Marriage

The clock struck 12 in this couple’s real-life fairy tale marriage, and the glamour vanished. How could theirs be a happy ending?

A group of friends sits outdoors, laughing and chatting, representing how a perfectly imperfect marriage can inspire and bless others through shared experiences.

How Your Perfectly Imperfect Marriage Can Bless Others

No marriage is perfect. Sometimes, the marital struggles you’ve had to overcome make your help all the more valuable.

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 smiling man in a car types on his phone, sending sweet texts to his spouse to brighten her day.

5 Sweet Texts To Send Your Spouse

Sending sweet texts can be an easy yet powerful way to connect with your spouse during the work week. It communicates that they’re top of mind and that you want to be part of their day.

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.

A loving husband twirls his smiling wife in the kitchen, symbolizing how to be a good husband by creating joyful and meaningful moments together.

How To Be a Good Husband: A Wife’s Perspective

While there are many qualities that make a good husband, there are three I’ve discovered in mine.

A joyful couple laughs and holds hands, representing the importance of psychological flexibility in marriage to strengthen their bond and adapt to challenges.

Psychological Flexibility: The Most Underrated Quality in a Marriage

Learn the characteristics of psychological flexibility and how demonstrating this underrated ability can help strengthen your marriage.

A grieving couple shares an intimate moment, with the man gently holding the woman’s face as she closes her eyes, symbolizing one of the many ways to love your spouse after a miscarriage.

9 Ways to Love Your Spouse After a Miscarriage

Losing a child, even before they’re born, is truly tragic. But after a miscarriage, you can love your wife well through the pain, and your marriage will likely grow deeper and your faith can grow stronger.

Counselor confronting husband in office as wife looks on

The Importance of Vulnerability in Fighting Pornography Addiction

You can’t keep hiding. You can’t kick the habit on your own; no one can. If you really want to be free, you’re going to have to open up to others. You’re going to have to learn to be vulnerable.

A man and a woman sit on opposite ends of a couch, turned away from each other. Here's how to identify and deal with a spouse on the autism spectrum, and to navigate autism and marriage.

Navigating Autism Spectrum Disorder in Marriage

Marriage stressors reach a whole new level if one spouse is on the autism spectrum — and the couple isn’t even aware of it. If one spouse has ASD and the other does not, the two have significant differences in the way their brains are wired.

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.

young couple kissing lit by evening sun

Gen Z’s Marriage Misunderstanding

Statistics indicate that Gen Z is returning to a more traditional lifestyle … but do the numbers tell the whole story? Or are Gen Z adults still missing something important?