The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work
genre tends to have a short shelf life, but John Gottman’s The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work, first published in 1999, continues to deal out what […]
Successful Christian Marriages
Set Goals for Your Marriage
A few years ago, at the suggestion of a friend, Troy and I began the tradition of setting goals for our marriage at the beginning […]
The Shape of Love – Through the Years
This Christmas included an extra gift under the tree for our family as our daughter Shannon became engaged. It was not a big surprise to […]
The Empty Nest
The Situation Tom and Maribeth are college sweethearts married 29 years. They feel they have a stable marriage that has involved raising four children. It […]
Love for Love’s Sake
Four months. Four months since I sobbed as my bride walked down the aisle. Four months since we promised the rest of our lives to […]
How to Pray With Your Spouse: Four Simple Steps
Ever wonder how to pray more intimately with your husband? Wish you were spiritually closer to your wife? Couples can learn a great deal from […]
Later Years
The later years includes the blissful “empty-nest” season of a marriage that can feel like a second honeymoon. Many couples welcome their new freedom, while […]
Conflict Resolution Skills
Conflict resolution is really a subset of communication, but for most couples, communication does not become problematic until there is a disagreement. Even though conflict […]
25 Ways to Fight Fair
Please note that the words “fight” and “fighting fair” are used below to mean expressing one’s disagreement or anger to another constructively. At no time […]
Connections: Living Natural Family Planning
For a newly engaged couple, learning Natural Family Planning (NFP) is informative, interesting, at times a little embarrassing, but always enlightening. Living NFP, on the […]