The best way to understand how you can nourish your marriage is to ask your spouse to finish this statement: “I feel loved when …” The answers are a gold mine of information.
Emotional Intimacy
Jesus laid down His life so that we might experience the new life that comes from His resurrection. In the same way, God calls us to lay down our own lives, serving our spouse unconditionally.
Differences can be part of what draws two people together, but the ways couples handle conflict are strongly related to how they will do in the future.
The Bible affirms the beauty of sex within marriage. Sex is an act of love that binds the souls of a husband and a wife to each other in a lifelong, intimate relationship.
The initial euphoria of love usually wears off after about two years, but that doesn’t mean love needs to wane or the relationship needs to grow cold. At this stage, love is a choice, not just an emotion.
The best research indicates that healthy marriages are always built around a solid core of open, honest, and empathetic person-to-person conversation.
The blessing is what we all long for – acceptance and affirmation.
Emotional affairs venture into dangerous territory. They may not lead to physical involvement, but can still devastate marriages.
You cannot underestimate how injurious it can be for your husband to find himself unable to perform sexually or to become the victim of a nonexistent libido.
Thoughts and attitudes are like the engine of a train and our emotions and behavior are like the caboose.
Many of us unknowingly bring a language of shame into our relationship. Find the grace and strength to make marriage a shame-free zone.
To yield to one another sexually in marriage is to step into God-created intimacy.
There are as many reasons for drifting apart as there are marriages.
When you commit to a particular decision or path in life, it’s natural to wonder about the other paths you could’ve taken. This is especially true when the path you’ve chosen gets rocky. In marriage, it’s important to guard yourself against greener grass fantasies and temptations. Here’s how.
The same need for meaningful touching we see with our children is equally important in a marriage.
The workplace is the No. 1 spot for married individuals to meet affair partners.
