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A smiling couple, Carrin and Jeremy Eyman, takes a close-up selfie outdoors, symbolizing their journey of resilience and support while facing military PTSD.

Navigating Military PTSD and Trauma in Marriage

A Naval Corpsman’s injury in Afghanistan changed his career and his marriage. But God used the trauma for good.

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6 Ways to Be More Patient in Marriage

Practical steps for developing a fruit of the Spirit in your marriage — patience — which will help you better love your spouse

A couple dancing with each other in their living room, enjoying their real-life fairy tale marriage.

Reconcilable Differences: A Real-Life Fairy Tale Marriage

The clock struck 12 in this couple’s real-life fairy tale marriage, and the glamour vanished. How could theirs be a happy ending?

A group of friends sits outdoors, laughing and chatting, representing how a perfectly imperfect marriage can inspire and bless others through shared experiences.

How Your Perfectly Imperfect Marriage Can Bless Others

No marriage is perfect. Sometimes, the marital struggles you’ve had to overcome make your help all the more valuable.

A newlywed couple shares a loving moment in the kitchen as the husband washes dishes, representing the need for good marriage advice for the first year of marriage—building connection through everyday moments.

What’s the Best Marriage Advice for the First Year of Marriage?

What will help you navigate your first year together? Two young couples reveal the marriage advice they wish they’d known before the wedding.

A smiling man in a car types on his phone, sending sweet texts to his spouse to brighten her day.

5 Sweet Texts To Send Your Spouse

Sending sweet texts can be an easy yet powerful way to connect with your spouse during the work week. It communicates that they’re top of mind and that you want to be part of their day.

A happy couple relaxes on a park bench, leaning into each other and smiling, symbolizing the joy and connection that comes when you refresh your marriage.

Do You Need Refreshment in Your Marriage?

We need refreshment — physical, mental, spiritual and emotional. We need to pause, check in with ourselves and our spouse to make sure we take time to restore and replenish our whole being.

A loving husband twirls his smiling wife in the kitchen, symbolizing how to be a good husband by creating joyful and meaningful moments together.

How To Be a Good Husband: A Wife’s Perspective

While there are many qualities that make a good husband, there are three I’ve discovered in mine.

A joyful couple laughs and holds hands, representing the importance of psychological flexibility in marriage to strengthen their bond and adapt to challenges.

Psychological Flexibility: The Most Underrated Quality in a Marriage

Learn the characteristics of psychological flexibility and how demonstrating this underrated ability can help strengthen your marriage.

A grieving couple shares an intimate moment, with the man gently holding the woman’s face as she closes her eyes, symbolizing one of the many ways to love your spouse after a miscarriage.

9 Ways to Love Your Spouse After a Miscarriage

Losing a child, even before they’re born, is truly tragic. But after a miscarriage, you can love your wife well through the pain, and your marriage will likely grow deeper and your faith can grow stronger.

Counselor confronting husband in office as wife looks on

The Importance of Vulnerability in Fighting Pornography Addiction

You can’t keep hiding. You can’t kick the habit on your own; no one can. If you really want to be free, you’re going to have to open up to others. You’re going to have to learn to be vulnerable.

A man and a woman sit on opposite ends of a couch, turned away from each other. Here's how to identify and deal with a spouse on the autism spectrum, and to navigate autism and marriage.

Navigating Autism Spectrum Disorder in Marriage

Marriage stressors reach a whole new level if one spouse is on the autism spectrum — and the couple isn’t even aware of it. If one spouse has ASD and the other does not, the two have significant differences in the way their brains are wired.

happy couple sits on a couch during a marriage counseling session, demonstrating why marriage counseling can be helpful even if you’re not having issues.

Why Marriage Counseling Is Helpful — Even When Your Marriage Isn’t in a Crisis

If your marriage isn’t going as well as you had hoped, here are a few reasons that marital counseling may be a good idea — even if you’re not thinking of calling it quits.

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Gen Z’s Marriage Misunderstanding

Statistics indicate that Gen Z is returning to a more traditional lifestyle … but do the numbers tell the whole story? Or are Gen Z adults still missing something important?

A happy couple embraces in front of their modern home, symbolizing the choice between investing in a wedding day or prioritizing marriage and a mortgage.

A Big Wedding Day, A Big House, or a Marriage That Lasts a Lifetime?

Should couples invest the most resources in a dream wedding day, a dream house or a dream relationship — one that lasts for a lifetime?

A close-up of two people standing on an escalator, symbolizing the need to stop fighting by stepping off the emotional escalator in relationships.

How to Stop Fighting: Step Off the Emotional Escalator

You can step onto the down escalator, stop fighting, and return to the issue level, or you can keep moving up to a third level of emotion.

A young woman whispers into her fiancé’s ear while he looks surprised, representing the excitement and curiosity of asking important questions to ask your fiancé.

100 Questions To Ask Your Fiancé Before Tying the Knot

Marriage is a life-long relationship in which vows are made to your mate and to God, and therefore, never to be taken lightly. Be sure you really, truly know your fiancé before making that life-long commitment.

Graphic of a man and woman in conflict, with their backs turned on each other. Their wedding rings interlock around them, keeping them united despite their communication differences

Unfair Comparisons: Understanding Communication Differences in a Second Marriage

What do you do when your new spouse communicates differently from your previous spouse?

Photo of a young man emotionally hurt from an argument with his wife. The wife looks on from the background. Sometimes it's hard to tell if its a bad conflict or emotional abuse.

Is It Bad Conflict or Emotional Abuse in Your Marriage?

Emotional abuse in marriage is one of the hardest forms of abuse to recognize, but unrepentant patterns are the key to identifying it.

A newlywed couple embraces in a sunlit forest, with the groom gently kissing the bride’s forehead as she smiles with her eyes closed. The moment reflects love, intimacy, and the beauty of a new beginning, embodying heartfelt advice for newlyweds—to cherish and nurture their bond with tenderness and understanding.

Advice For Newlyweds: 5 Pitfalls to Avoid

Navigating a new marriage may not be as easy as the movies make it seem, but with an attentive eye and an earnest heart, you can avoid these pitfalls and have a beautiful newlywed season.