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Serving Others With Your Spouse Can Improve Your Marriage

Helping others as a couple can improve communication and create intimacy in your marriage.

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A New Year’s Resolution for Wives

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5 Ways You Can Rekindle Your Relationship with Your Spouse

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40 Self-Care Ideas for Achieving True Rest

At some point, our Christian culture has rewritten the greatest commandments from loving God and others as yourself to loving God and others instead of yourself.

The Power of Praying Together in Marriage

Praying for your marriage is important. Every time you and your spouse pray for one another, great things happen in your relationship.

After the “Family-moon”: Tips For Blended Families

Most couples in a second marriage could use some expert help right from the start. Counseling provides guidance and the kind of insight that’s often difficult to muster on your own.

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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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Protect Your Marriage By Putting a Hedge Around It

These simple steps can make a world of difference in your marriage.

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God’s Design for Sex Reveals His Heart For Us

Husbands can reveal God’s loving, self-sacrificing movement into people’s hearts by the way they treat their wife. And wives can reveal God’s invitation to be filled with His strengthening presence.

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How To Survive Thanksgiving Dinner With Family

Two things bring a chill to the Thanksgiving holiday: an unexpected blizzard and an invitation to the annual family dinner. While you may spend a few days digging out from the snowfall, the fallout from a family get-together can last several years. So, if you find yourself heading over the river and through the woods …

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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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Dealing With Differences in Your Marriage

Learning constructive ways to handle your differences is one of the most important things you can do to protect your marriage. You can decide to take control of your issues.

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How To Get on the Same Financial Page As Your Spouse

Having trouble getting your spouse to help with money issues or join the get-out-of-debt crusade? Here’s help.

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Enduring Bonds of Marriage: Building a Lasting Love

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Every good mentor — or mentor couple — should have these three qualities.

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Couple Friends: Double Dating to Strengthen Your Marriage

Along with a couple’s relationship with God, it takes a supportive community of friends to keep a marriage strong.

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To Know and Be Known: Vulnerability in Marriage

Dr. Henry Cloud describes how vulnerability makes a difference in marriage as it builds trust and empathy between a husband and a wife.

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Naked and Unashamed: Keeping a Pure Marriage

Differing perspectives and fears about our imperfections can make Biblical intimacy challenging. Learn how to develop pure intimacy in your marriage through embracing your differences.