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Marital Unity

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Laughter is The Best Medicine in Marriage

Laughter helps us avoid taking ourselves too seriously and is a great stress reducer. If your marriage is anything like Mark and Debbie Gungor’s, it has its fair share of stress.

A couple is consulting with a doctor in an office, discussing their efforts to get pregnant. The doctor, wearing a white coat and glasses, listens attentively. The couple sits closely together, indicating support and partnership as they explore the do's and don'ts of trying to get pregnant.

Trying to Get Pregnant? 7 Do’s and Don’ts for Couples

If you’re trying to get pregnant, it’s important to be aware of the potential pitfalls to your relationship if the process takes a while.

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5 Ways You Can Rekindle Your Relationship with Your Spouse

As Christians, we know that staying close to Jesus requires time and effort. So why do we think we can take our spouse for granted? Try these four ways to rekindle your relationship.

A couple embraces intimately, their foreheads touching as they prepare to kiss, symbolizing vulnerability and connection in conversations about a partner’s sexual past.

How to Overcome Your Sexual Past and Have Deeper Intimacy With Your Spouse

Blended family marriages face unique stressors that can affect a couple’s sexual relationship. Here are five sexual pitfalls to avoid.

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How to Align Your Dreams as a Couple

I wasn’t fully on board with my wife’s dreams to adopt. But we finally found ourselves on the same page. We have some suggestions for aligning your dreams so that you’re headed toward the same goal.

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Viewing Your Wife in a New Light

After getting married, seeing your wife in a new, perhaps disappointing light can damage your relationship. Here’s what you can do about it.

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Viewing Your Husband in a New Light

After the wedding, it’s common to view your spouse in a new, perhaps disappointing light. Here’s what you can do about it.

The Sexual-Spiritual Union of a Man and Woman

A good marriage is a mystery on many different levels.

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.

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Celebrating the Holidays

Holiday Stress While “dashing through the snow” could be written today as “speeding down the interstate to the mall,” both statements sound stressful to me. With the arrival of the holidays, many of us experience an odd mixture of excitement and dread as we prepare to celebrate the season. We get excited about the lights, …

Recovery: A Journey Worth Taking Together

Discover how God can transform your life and your marriage when you commit to going through recovery together with your spouse.

Turning Sex From a Battleground to a Sanctuary

Read practical ways you can maintain (or restore) the sanctity of marital intimacy and move past impurity, manipulation, hopelessness or shame.

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Five Misconceptions About Mentoring

Maybe you’ve heard about mentoring but don’t really know what it is. Let’s clear up five of the most common misconceptions.

Handling Past Relationships

Now that I’m engaged, do I have to get rid of my photos of former girlfriends?

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A Measure of GRACE

Inter-ethnic marriages are often plagued by communication lapses, typically because self-interests are prioritized over partnership. Effective communication requires grace-filled attitudes and behaviors.

Growing in Oneness

It takes work to grow in oneness, but the reward is definitely worth it.

The Christ-ian Marriage

What sustains us and restores us after we fall? Embracing the vision of Christ living in us and in the holy temple of our marriage.

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Is Our Marriage Ready for a Baby?

Before, you were a couple. Now you’re “Mom” and “Dad.” How can you and your spouse prepare your relationship for some of parenthood’s unique challenges?

A young wife and husband sit in their dim restaurant after hours, looking at a report of their business that they are running together. Running a business requires humility, wisdom, and compromise. Could marriage partners also be business partners?

Can Spouses Work Together As Business Partners?

Running a business, just like marriage, requires humility, wisdom, and compromise. Here some key principles to guide you if you and your spouse run a small business together.

A man sits on an airport bench, slumped over in stress. Here are some tips to keep business travel from killing your marriage.

How to Keep Business Travel From Killing Your Marriage

Kim and Randy learned to live independently while Randy was traveling for work, but they lost the sense of unity that’s critical for a marriage. Here are tips to fix the troubles caused by travels.