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A man and a woman stand pressing their foreheads against each other lovingly and with joy in their hearts. Our childhood experiences and the way our parents related to us have imprinted certain love styles and behaviors on us.

How Childhood Experiences Impact Love Styles

Our childhood experiences and relationships with our parents affect the way we relate to our spouses. There are five unhealthy love styles we develop as a result of our trauma as kids. Here’s how to identify each.

A husband and wife facing the camera, laughing together, embodying the phrase “laughter is the best medicine.”

Laughter is The Best Medicine in Marriage

Laughter helps us avoid taking ourselves too seriously and is a great stress reducer. If your marriage is anything like Mark and Debbie Gungor’s, it has its fair share of stress.

A husband and wife are embracing each other with smiles on their faces as they look into each others' eyes, demonstrating the importance of making your spouse feel cherished.

Faith Conversations: Ways to Show Love to Your Spouse

Denying our own interests doesn’t come naturally, but it conditions us toward a more sacrificial love. Dying to self proves we’re serious about loving our spouse in the same way Christ loves His church.

A couple sits on a couch looking concerned while reviewing a financial document, illustrating the impact of destructive attitudes that can keep you in debt.

5 Destructive Attitudes Keeping You in Debt

Changing your financial situation starts with deliberate choices to defeat the destructive attitudes that are keeping you in debt. The way you do that is by consciously replacing destructive thoughts with truthful and beneficial ones.

A husband and wife sit on a park bench. The wife is holding a beautiful bouquet of flowers and leaning into her husband's shoulder, depicting authentic intimacy in their marriage.

Date Night With Your Spouse: Authentic Intimacy

Have you heard about the other way of writing the word “intimacy”?—”INTO ME, SEE.” There’s a valuable piece of marital wisdom embedded in this clever play on words.

Date Night With Your Spouse: Maximize the Mundane

How can a couple keep the fires of sexual passion alive in the middle of the humdrum, day-to-day routine of the average marriage? Believe it or not, this is a fairly common question. If it’s come up recently between you and your spouse, take heart. You’re not alone.

A couple sitting on a couch, encouraging each other with a warm embrace

Date Night With Your Spouse: Encourage Each Other

What is a marriage? It’s a question well worth pondering.

A close-up of a couple gently pressing their foreheads together, eyes closed, symbolizing unity in marriage and deep emotional and spiritual connection.

Date Night With Your Spouse: Pursuing Unity in Marriage

The parallel between romantic love and God’s relationship with His people is a theme that runs all the way through Scripture, and it has a great deal to teach us about the spiritual dimension of marriage.

A couple sitting on the couch with his mother who is hugging his wife

How to Strengthen Your Marriage by Loving Your Mother-In-Law

Learn how to strengthen your marriage and love your husband by building a good relationship with your mother-in-law.

A woman and a man enjoy an intimate moment by standing close to each other and gazing into each other's eyes. A healthy sex life isn’t about having more sex, it’s about having better sex. Here are four ways to improve your sex life in your marriage.

Five Ways to Have Better Sex

Sex is a gift God gave to husbands and wives, so why not learn how to enjoy it to the fullest?

A woman embraces a man in a wheelchair, both wearing expressions of hope and positivity despite the challenges of facing a terminal illness.

Facing Terminal Illness in Marriage

Bo Stern writes of her husband’s struggle with ALS, testifying to God’s strength being made perfect in their weakness.

Jack & Sherry Herrschend:

Jack and Sherry Herschend: Their story of marriage, mentoring, and service

In 2024, Jack and Sherry Herschend accomplished something more spectacular than a ride on the Time Traveler roller coaster. They celebrated their 70th wedding anniversary.

Worried couple sitting at the table looking over bills

Getting Out of Debt . . . Again

The holidays are over. Has the New Year brought to light old habits?

A married couple works together in the kitchen, preparing food as part of their shared act of serving others.

Serving Others With Your Spouse Can Improve Your Marriage

Helping others as a couple can improve communication and create intimacy in your marriage.

Happy man showing off newly purchased stuff while upset wife looks at the receipt

How to End Conflicts with Money in Your Marriage

A practical way to communicate about your finances is to create a “money huddle.” It’s not a budget-planning session; it’s a time to address the emotional side of money.

Family saying grace around the dinner table, with focus on one couple holding hands, showing the importance of giving thanks together for what God gives us.

Giving Thanks Together

The holiday season is a perfect time to count your blessings and to offer thanksgiving to God. See if your heart change doesn’t impact your mood, your relationships and your perspective.

A couple is consulting with a doctor in an office, discussing their efforts to get pregnant. The doctor, wearing a white coat and glasses, listens attentively. The couple sits closely together, indicating support and partnership as they explore the do's and don'ts of trying to get pregnant.

Trying to Get Pregnant? 7 Do’s and Don’ts for Couples

If you’re trying to get pregnant, it’s important to be aware of the potential pitfalls to your relationship if the process takes a while.

A woman types on her smartphone in a bright kitchen, illustrating how to comfort someone over text with a calm and thoughtful expression.

How to Comfort Someone Over Text

With a simple text, you can comfort someone and pass along powerful encouragement, just as the apostle Paul did in his letters.

A distressed woman sits with her head in her hand while a man angrily gestures towards her, depicting emotional abuse in marriage.

Warning Signs of Emotional Abuse in Marriage

Are you concerned that a spouse is being emotionally abused in their marriage? Find out which behavior patterns signal abuse.

Husband and wife holding 2 hearts in their hands

A New Year’s Resolution for Wives

What if this year you give your husband a new marriage? Join Erin Smalley as she takes the challenge and commits to living out the Greatest Commandment in her home.