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What the Kids Are Feeling

Depending on their ages, children respond differently to the losses they feel from moving. Parents need to help them understand that with all endings come opportunities for new beginnings.

Surviving the Stress of Moving

Susan Miller and her family have moved 10 times, so she’s familiar with the roller coaster of emotions. Susan’s learned that getting everyone connected to the new community makes a big difference in the adjustment.

Emotional Safety in a Troubled Marriage

Taking responsibility for a better marriage begins by recognizing your need for help and then creating emotional safety in your relationship.

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Everything Will Be Easier … and other myths about blending your family

When expectations are realistic, a difficult reality becomes a lot less difficult. Overcoming blended-family myths.

My Marriage and a Terminal Illness

Bo Stern writes of her husband’s struggle with ALS, confident that amid this trauma and turmoil, God is bringing beauty to their battle.

Holiday Marriage Questions

Visits from extended family members can add to the joy — and stress — of the season. Talk with your spouse before guests arrive to compare expectations and plan ways to support each other as a couple.

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What is the Actual Divorce Rate?

A Brief Explanation.

Restoring Your Marriage After Admitting to Infidelity

Maybe you’re thinking, How did I get here? Or maybe you deliberately sought comfort outside your marriage. Here are tips to help you pursue healing in your marriage after being unfaithful to your spouse.

Dealing With Your Differences: Do Your Part

We will all blow it sometimes. But if you really strive to limit your reckless words, you will create a climate that fosters openness and closeness in your marriage.

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Dealing With Your Differences: Make it Safe to Connect

Differences can be part of what draws two people together, but the ways couples handle conflict are strongly related to how they will do in the future.

God Can Use Your Past to Shape Your Future

In John 5, Jesus heals a crippled man and then tells him to pick up his mat and walk. Can our “mats” help us be grateful to and dependent on God—even in marriage?

Feelings Will Change

On average, the high of new love lasts approximately two years, and then every couple has to work toward a deeper sense of emotional love.

Introduction: Hope for the Separated

While reconciliation is God’s desire for struggling couples, there are all sorts of situations that can bring a marriage to the crisis point. Dr. Gary Chapman offers hope and help for the separated.

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When Separation is the Beginning of the End

What if reconciliation proves to be impossible and divorce is inevitable? Dr. Gary Chapman offers hope to individuals starting again on their own. 

How to Navigate the Stress of the Family Holiday Road Trip

What is the key to surviving the holiday family road trip with your spouse?

A husband and wife sit on a couch having a serious conversation, reflecting the strain caused by a husband’s selfishness.

A Husband’s Selfishness

Dr. Ron Welch, the author of The Controlling Husband: What Every Woman Needs to Know, shares his story of making his wife and marriage a priority.

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A Feminist Institution

What empowers women more than anything else? You might be surprised.

How Do You Find a Good Marriage Counselor?

Once the decision is made to seek assistance the next few steps can be discouraging if one is not prepared.

A judge’s gavel, two wedding rings, and a legal document symbolize the question of whether the divorce rate in the church is as high as in the world.

Divorce Rate in the Church – As High as the World?

Couples who regularly practice any combination of serious religious behaviors and attitudes enjoy significantly lower divorce rates.

Marriage as a Feminist Institution

Students of the family must consider and appreciate how marriage operates as a formative institution.