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Families are in crisis this back-to-school season

Urgent Need: As the back-to-school season begins, families are facing mounting pressure—tough choices, cultural confusion, and strained relationships.

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Connecting with Your Spouse

Remembering the Good Times

Deliberately call to mind the highlights of your life together.

A smiling couple shares a tender moment while working together on a pottery wheel, symbolizing the importance of finding common interests and hobbies with your spouse.

Finding Common Interests and Hobbies

Developing common interests and hobbies can decrease conflict in marriage and strengthen the idea that you and your spouse are a team.

Community-Minded

This date’s focus on community affords you the perfect opportunity to phone up another couple — or couples — and enjoy a group date.

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Addressing Unmet Sexual Needs

One of the keys to growing beyond the frustration you now feel is learning to accept the many ways your husband is likely showing you love.

Turning Your Marriage Around

Attitudes and the thoughts that form them are important, especially in marriage.

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Sex Is a Relational Need

The lack of regular sex is a significant barrier to emotional connectedness and intimacy for men.

Teen-Fueled Tension in Marriage

Parenting teens provides a new set of conflicts for couples: debates over discipline, respect, privileges, responsibilities, media choices and dating boundaries.

A picture of a forest with a muddy trail.

The Ruts in Your Mind

When you and your spouse disagree, or get hurt, or become frustrated, or reach an impasse, the easiest thing to do is what you have always done!

Sex Does Not Define Your Marriage

Friendship, seasoned love, and shared history are often enough to maintain a marriage in which sex is no longer possible.

Gifts That Money Can’t Buy

If you’re trying to decide on a gift for your spouse, remember that handmade and creative presents are often the most meaningful.

New Challenges, New Normal

Upon returning home from deployment, it’s typical for service members to feel out of sorts.

Divorcing Shame From Marriage

Many of us unknowingly bring a language of shame into our relationship. Find the grace and strength to make marriage a shame-free zone.

Thirty-Three Months at War

‘I’m not ashamed of my experiences because I know … I’ll be able to use what I’ve been through to help and bless another. …’

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Recovering Friendship in the Wake of Broken Trust

They remained the best of friends … or so Ruthie thought.

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Give Thanks

Age-specific ways to help your kids experience the meaning behind the celebration on Thanksgiving Day.

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How Can We Keep from Drifting Apart?

There are as many reasons for drifting apart as there are marriages.

Sex: Where It All Starts

Sex: Where It All Starts

Sex is one of the biggest somethings of all time in more fabulous ways than most people appreciate.

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Jumpstarting Your Stalled Marriage

Does the repartee between you and your spouse consist mainly of shrugs and one-syllable grunts? If so, your marriage-mobile may be heading for a blown gasket.

Giving the Blessing to Your Spouse

The five elements of the blessing are not just limited to the parent/child relationship. Let’s look at how the blessing can and should be given to a spouse.

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Why Laughter Is Good for Your Marriage

Laughter is good medicine, having an important physiological effect on you and your soul mate.