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A woman stands alone annoyed by her husband confiding in his mother about their relationship. Here are some tips for cutting your spouse's apron strings.

Cutting Your Spouse’s Apron Strings

Maintaining relationships with our parents is usually beneficial, but problems arise if certain factors are present.

A photo of a young couple welcoming their in-laws to their house. Getting along with your in-laws requires civility.

Getting Along With Your In-Laws

Getting along with your in-laws may not be easy, but these practical tips will help you make the best of it.

Good relationships with your in-laws is important. Here's an extended family laughing and getting along well.

Myths and Realities of Extended Families

Your relationship with your in-laws will probably change once you get married.

A young couple in a kitchen talking to their in-laws. Controlling in-laws trying to run your life is a difficult challenge.

What If In-Laws Try to Run Our Lives?

Relating to controlling in-laws is one of the trickiest problems a marriage can face. If you believe your in-laws are trying to run your life, the following principles might help.

A younger couple sits with an older couple on couches in a living room.

How Your Relationship with Your In-Laws Impacts Your Marriage

Do you get along with your in-laws?

A married couple receives a warm welcome from their in-laws. Building in-law relationships is important.

In-Law Relationships

Letting in-laws split, manipulate, or control you by silently acceding to their nutty, neurotic, inappropriate demands isn’t necessarily showing Christian love.

A couple with three kids from a blended stepfamily after remarriage navigate crossing a creek by stepping over rocks.

Is Remarriage Right for You and Your Future Stepfamily?

Understanding the challenges of stepfamily living can help you make an informed decision about remarriage.

God's intention for marriage is never divorce. Photo of an older married couple in a loving embrace.

Divorce Was Never God’s Intention

Only one man and one woman existed in the beginning. For that very obvious reason, divorce and remarriage were not options in the divine plan for man.

Remarriage doesn't wipe away memories and old habits. When such habits arise take time to discuss them, like this couple sitting on this couch.

Remarriage Doesn’t Wipe Away Memories and Old Habits

Remarriage may start a clean relationship slate, but it doesn’t wipe away memories and old habits. Your best response to your spouse’s remarriage mistakes may be uncommonly simple.

A man and a woman celebrate the joys of being remarried.

Dealing With the Past When You’re Remarried

Gil and Brenda Stuart brought memories, habits and history into their new marriage. They learned the importance of acknowledging the associated emotions and being able to talk about them.

Married couple speaking gently to each other

Recovering From an Affair

Whether you or your spouse recently confessed extramarital affair, we want to help you recover from the affair amid this overwhelming pain.

A happy couple embraces in a field at sunset. Building trust in marriage is imperative to a successful relationship.

Building Trust in Marriage

Trust in marriage stands or falls on the quality of its foundation.

A man and a woman sit together holding hands, seeking to overcome the restoration hurdles in marriage many couples face.

Restoration: Four Hurdles in Marriage You Must Face

In order to successfully navigate the road to reconciliation, couples must overcome four essential restoration hurdles in marriage. Understanding these critical issues will help you work through the healing process.

A man seeks forgiveness and restoration of his relationship with his wife, as they sit next to each other. The man comforts his wife as she looks sad and weeps.

Dr. Bill Maier on Forgiveness and Restoration

In This Series: 1. Forgiveness and Restoration 2. The Freedom in Forgiveness 3. Restoration: Four Hurdles You Must Face 4. Building Trust 5. Understanding Forgiveness 6. Reconcilable Differences: A Real-Life Fairy Tale 7. Dr. Bill Maier on Forgiveness and Restoration Dr. Bill Maier answers some questions on the topics of forgiveness and restoration.What if I …

A man and a woman sit next to each other on a couch, with the man looking away off in the distance while the woman lowers her head and wipes away tears.

Should I Stay Or Go?: When Marriage Vows Are Betrayed

If you’re struggling with the difficult choice of whether to stay in a less than perfect marriage, the answer you seek feels heartbreakingly complicated. Because it is.

Man and woman embracing in a hug of forgiveness.

The Freedom in Forgiveness

If you’re like many people, you may want to be free of past offenses, but you still carry bitter memories of or hard feelings toward those who have wronged you.

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 young couple discussing a crisis or an issue they're having.

ADHD and Marriage: How to Handle Common Conflict Patterns

When ADHD and marriage go together, you can face repeating conflict patterns. But you can lessen those patterns and strengthen your marriage.

How Should a Christian View Marriage and Divorce?

God, the Creator of humanity and of marriage itself, has laid out His plan for marriage as a lifelong union.

A man grabs his spouse's aggressively, symbolizing physical abuse in marriage.

What Is Physical Abuse in Marriage?

Physical abuse is a means of coercively controlling another through fear and intimidation. It involves intentionally or recklessly using physical force that may result in bodily injury or physical pain.