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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.

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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.

A newlywed couple embraces in a sunlit forest, with the groom gently kissing the bride’s forehead as she smiles with her eyes closed. The moment reflects love, intimacy, and the beauty of a new beginning, embodying heartfelt advice for newlyweds—to cherish and nurture their bond with tenderness and understanding.

Advice For Newlyweds: 5 Pitfalls to Avoid

Navigating a new marriage may not be as easy as the movies make it seem, but with an attentive eye and an earnest heart, you can avoid these pitfalls and have a beautiful newlywed season.

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Lauren and Tony Dungy: Great Teamwork in Marriage Requires SOUL

Former NFL coach and his wife, Lauren, share their tips from 40 years of marriage of working together as teammates.

A young couple sits with a mature couple in fellowship around a couch. Marriage mentoring can be important in helping young couples navigate the issues they will face together. Here are five ways to find a mentor couple.

Marriage Mentoring: Five Keys to Help Find a Mentor Couple

Marriage mentoring can be important in helping young couples navigate their lifelong journey together. Here are five ways to find a mentor couple.

A husband hugs his wife tenderly and empathetically. Here are five ways to support your spouse after a job loss.

Five Ways to Support Your Spouse after a Job Loss

A spouse’s job loss can be a trying and uncertain time. But it’s important to remind them that their job is not their whole identity. They are also an eternal child of God with purpose beyond their work.

A man and a woman touch foreheads in a close, intimate moment in the park. Intimacy depends on how much we’re willing to reveal about ourselves beneath the surface. Here's how truth leads to intimacy with your spouse.

How Telling the Truth Leads to Intimacy With Your Spouse

Intimacy with your spouse means being completely open to them — emotionally, spiritually, and physically. This type of vulnerability comes with risk but one worth taking.

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On the Trail to Intimacy in Marriage

Busyness, parenting and mundane tasks can grow over the path to togetherness. But it’s never too late to reclaim the trail to intimacy.

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Your Romance Story: The Formula For Making a Great Marriage

Every popular romance story portrays a loving bond so special it comes just once in a lifetime. How can you ensure that your own romance has a lifetime filled with those happy-ever-after endings?

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God Uses Your Scuff Marks in Marriage

Marriage is messy, but God uses our blemishes and imperfections. Relationship intimacy is the perfect test kitchen for God to mature us and change us into utensils He can use for His purposes.

Cooking Up Community: How Food Brings People Together

Author Laura Schupp and her husband, Thom, have been building community through hospitality for more than two decades. Laura hopes to pass along her skills and knowledge to her children.

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Making Room for the Important Things in Your Marriage

Marriage requires making room for someone else in your life. To add this relationship to your life requires letting go of some of your other commitments and giving your spouse priority consideration.

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How Self-Care Can Turn a Good Marriage Into a Great One

Roadblocks to self-care affect marriages because a spouse who isn’t cared for comes to the marriage depleted instead of ready to give. A marriage thrives when each spouse is seeking his or her own care.

Commitment: The First Defense Against Marital Stressors

Unconditional commitment is the key to resisting marital stressors. This is accomplished by attending to each other’s needs, honest communication and timely encouragement.

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Learn From Your Mistakes to Improve Your Marriage

Most of us in second marriages can clearly see that adding education, personal awareness and intentionality to our current marriage can create a new, mutually satisfying relationship.

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How Jeremy and Adrienne Camp Live in Harmony

Christian recording artist Jeremy Camp, and his wife, Adrienne, find ways to stay united even when they’re miles apart. Knowing that each day is a gift from God, they strive to be best friends.

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Conquering the Spending Problem

Spending money is easy and fun until you realize you’ve spent too much. Learn how to conquer your spending problem with these simple suggestions.

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How to Keep Your Marriage Strong During Life Transitions

Pam and Bill Farrel realized that the quality of their love was going to be determined by how they handled the changing seasons that every marriage encounters.

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How To Honor Your Wife by Recognizing Her Value

“The most significant thing that a husband can give his wife is honor or value. No other quality, possession, or activity will insure a good marriage.” -Gil Stieglitz

Validating Feelings Creates Emotional Connection in Marriage

Estimated reading time: 6 minutes “Why can’t you care about how I feel?” My wife, Erin, was in tears as she stormed out of the bedroom. Not a great start to our evening together. She’d already been crying in the bathroom when I got home from work. I asked Erin what was wrong, and she …