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Marriage

The Hidden Value of Conflict

Rather than making it our goal to resolve arguments, we must learn how to manage our conflicts.

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Decision Time

Are you ready to transform your marriage by putting the principles of love and respect into practice?

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What if I Only Suspect a Problem?

What you should be worried about are signs that your spouse’s use is getting out of control.

A couple sitting apart on a couch with their arms crossed and looking away from each other, representing a moment of disagreement. This scene can symbolize how healthy conflict in marriage requires space and time for both partners to reflect on their feelings.

Emotional Red Flags

Angry I’m not talking about one’s ability to experience the feeling of anger; all of us should be able to identify that God-given emotion in our lives. I’m talking primarily about frozen anger — resentment. When we hold on to anger and don’t address it, bad things often happen. There may be issues about unforgiveness in …

Nourish: Treat Your Spouse in Valuable Ways

When you treat your spouse with compassion, it creates a safe environment to share your deepest thoughts and feelings.

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Responding to the Music

God has called husbands and wives to serve as unique vessels of His love for the other.

Looking for Weeds and Noticing Your Green Grass

When you are attracted to another, use these two strategies to protect yourself and your marriage.

Interpersonal Red Flags

Non-Affectionate This is not the problem for most couples. Often there’s a need to restrain the passions that run so strong at this point in a relationship. Setting the flames of romance aside for a moment, is your friend comfortable with giving and receiving affection? Does he/she show appropriate affection to friends, parents, siblings, etc.? …

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Overcoming Role Confusion and Boundary Threats

By following a three-step process, couples from differing ethnic backgrounds can overcome the marital stressors resulting from the conflicting cultural assumptions they bring to the marriage.

Understanding Biased Perceptions

If you are seriously attracted to someone other than your spouse, chances are you’re seeing that person in an unrealistic light.

Money Management in Marriage

Make your marriage stronger by tackling the issue of money management in marriage.

The Overcoming Marriage

If we’re honest, all marriages have trials. Learn how to use difficulty to build an overcoming marriage and grow closer than ever to your spouse.

Five Ways to Celebrate Singleness

How do you ‘celebrate your singleness?’ Here are some ways to go on the offensive.

Let the Good Times Roll

Thriving couples cultivate common hobbies and undertake shared adventures through regular Date Nights!

The Woman I Should Marry

God will likely use two sources through which to communicate to you about such a decision: your head and your heart.

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Back to the Future

If cherishing is to be pushed to an even higher level in a couple’s present experience of marriage, it will happen because they find ways not only to keep in touch with the past, but to project the past into the future.

Forging a New Identity

God has given you experiences that build wisdom if interpreted and used correctly. And that wisdom can be a tremendous benefit to others who will go through the same dark valley.

Unwrapping the Present

Studies show that the average couple spends only four minutes per day engaged in meaningful conversation. Four minutes! Can couples really expect to foster intimacy with so little time devoted to positive communication?

The Power of Healthy Conflict

Healthy conflict can actually take your marriage to deeper levels of intimacy.

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Working With Your Differences

Even number-nerds and financial free-spirits can work together toward a successful financial future.