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Marriage

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Living Together Before Marriage: What Does the Bible Say?

How do you counsel someone against living together before marriage? Looking to the example of Jesus, we can point out the sin of cohabitation and correct with love and grace. Understanding what the Bible actually says about this subject is key to engaging this issue.

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Praying for Your Wife

Praying for your wife is one of the best things you can do for your relationship!

Two adults engaged in a serious discussion while seated on a couch in a living room, illustrating conflict resolution and communication challenges often explored in Bible verses about anger in relationships.

Bible Verses to Help You Handle Anger in Marriage

Learn how to handle conflict in marriage by memorizing these bible verses about anger in relationships. Asking God to remind you of them when you’re tempted to lash out at your spouse.

A man tenderly embraces his wife in a hospital bed, offering comfort during a deeply emotional moment, representing the journey of when your spouse has a terminal illness.

When Your Spouse Has a Terminal Illness

When you learn your spouse has a terminal illness, everything changes in an instant. What’s important to know as you begin this hard journey?

6 Truths About Marriage For Engaged Couples

So you think you’re ready for marriage? Engaged couples are often surprised by these six things once they are married. With time, you’ll learn new things about your spouse. Remind yourself that it’s OK because you couldn’t have known everything before the wedding.

A woman who married an introvert, sitting back to back with her husband trying to talk to him while he clearly wants to be elsewhere.

Different Personalities: Help, I Married an Introvert!

Sometimes, when we meet our spouses, our differences attract us to one another. But then those differences can be frustrating once we’re married. If you’re finding that’s the case in your relationship, here are five strategies that might help.

How Birth Order Affects Your Marriage

Because of birth order, the place in their families of origin, spouses have different experiences growing up, and that shapes behavior, personalities and relationships with each other. Understanding how birth order affects how your spouse thinks and behaves can improve communication in your marriage.

A wife grieves her sexual assault as her husband wonders how to help her.

When Sexual Assault Affects Your Marriage

The aftermath of a wife’s sexual assault has profound effects on her marriage. Helping a husband understand how rape has affected his wife is critical to helping her recover.

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How to Prepare for the Wedding Night?

How can an engaged couple prepare for their wedding night? Learning to communicate about expectations and embracing the process is key. But perhaps you don’t know what your expectations should be, or what it’s okay to talk about about. Books, candid conversations, mentors, are all resources you can turn to.

Depressed middle-age couple seated in different directions. He’s toying with his wedding band, implying a troubled marriage and the need for a healing separation.

Why and How to Pursue a Healing Separation

Focus on the Family is dedicated to bringing healing and restoration to couples who are struggling in their marriage. But God’s design for marriage never included abuse, violence or coercive control. Even emotional abuse can bruise or severely harm a person’s heart, mind and soul. If you are in an abusive relationship, go to a …

A couple sit at the computer together, in a discussion, asking questions. Asking the Right questions in marriage can strengthen your relationship.

Improve Your Marriage by Asking the Right Questions

Asking the right questions can strengthen your marriage and determine the trajectory of your relationship. It’s essential that you develop this tool for a strong marriage.

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Sacrificial Love in Marriage

“Love” can be defined in many ways. Christ’s love for us is an unconditional love, and this is the love we are to seek in marriage.

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Marriage First Aid Kit

Practical Christian help for couples facing a marriage crisis, emotional disconnection, or betrayal. Learn how to stabilize your relationship, rebuild trust, establish healthy boundaries, and seek wise support.

Arguments in Marriage - An illustration of a married couple holding hands among abstract fractured shards. House and trees are in the background.

How to Handle Arguments in Marriage

Conflict can lead you toward a deeper marriage connection

A man sits on a couch across from his spouse, comforting her. Sometimes your spouse can’t have sex due to illness or trauma. The good news is there’s more to sex than just the physical.

If Your Spouse Can’t Have Sex, How Do You Keep Your Marriage Strong?

Here are some suggestions to maintain a to maintain a physical, emotional, and spiritual connection with each other when your spouse can’t have sex.

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What if You Desire Sex More Than Your Husband Does?

Women who do not understand why their husband isn’t initiating sex can often personalize it and struggle emotionally.

A photo of a man looking apologetically at a woman, whose back is turned. He is longing for forgiveness.

What Does Forgiveness and Restoration Mean?

So what does forgiveness mean? The first step to understanding forgiveness is learning what it is and isn’t.

A couple sits on a couch in agreeable conversation while sitting close and drinking some coffee. These six marriage communication tools will help you build a solid foundation in your relationship.

6 Tools for Healthy Communication in Marriage

Communicating in marriage can be excruciating if you don’t have the right tools. Here are six tools that will help with that.

Adult Couple Having Fun In A Pillow Fight In Their Bedroom, having fun and flirting their way to a better marriage

How to Flirt with Your Spouse

Refresh and reignite your marriage relationship by finding a way to flirt with each other and have fun together again

Two people sit closely with hands clasped in prayer over an open Bible on a wooden table.

How Do We Pray Together?

How do you pray together as a couple? Try the following ideas for praying together and increasing spiritual intimacy in your marriage.