Enriching Your Marriage by Creating Shared Meaning
Article published Nov, 30 2017 After being married ten years, Teresa, age 38, discovered that being in love with Brian, age 37, was just...
INSPIRATION!
A collection of articles and videos from various sources that we have chosen to educate, guide, and inspire you, no matter where you are on your marriage journey.
Max Johnson
- 2 min
What to Read to Set Your Relationship Up For Success
Article published July 29, 2021 Don’t know where to start? Here are the books and programs to get your love on the right track Like any...
Benjamin Watson
- 3 min
3 Ideas to Keep Improving Your Marriage
I recently saw a social media post that said “Marriage is just texting each other ‘Do we need anything from the grocery store?’ until one...
Abby Watts
- 2 min
10 Fill-in-the-Blanks That Can Change Your Marriage
Before I got married, my husband and I had to go on a weekend marriage-prep retreat. It was memorable. I recall one girl crying in the...
Dr. Robert Navarra
- 3 min
3 Research-Based Tips for a Happy and Healthy Relationship
Article published February 11, 2015 What have the Gottmans taught us about what works and doesn’t work in relationships? The key findings...
For Your Marriage Blog
- 5 min
New Traditions
In October of 2014, Tommy and I found ourselves sitting in a little Italian restaurant in Lake Charles. We had been dating for six months...
Derek Maul
- 2 min
20 Great Conversation Starters for Great Marriages
One of the most dangerous threats to great marriages is lack of interest—and not just interest in sex, but interest in everything. This...
Brenda Wehrly
- 3 min
This Part of Your Week Can Change Your Mundane Marriage
The mundaneness of life can get to all of us and it can creep into a marriage. For a while, I felt like my relationship was on autopilot....
Shannon Whitmore
- 2 min
5 Tips for Bringing up the Tough Stuff With Your Husband
A few weeks ago, my husband and I took advantage of some free babysitting. (Thanks, Mom!) We went out to dinner and while we waited for...
Ryan Frederick
- 4 min
7 Reasons Why ‘Getting Away’ is Good for Your Marriage (and 10 tools we use for affordable travel)
Getting away with your spouse is a vital part of keeping things renewed and fresh. There’s just something special that happens when you...
Samantha Bailie
- 3 min
5 Things Your Husband Won’t Know Unless You Tell Him
“I am not a mind reader!” If I had a nickel for every time my husband said these words to me, I’d be a very rich wife. Unfortunately, I...
Melissa Gendreau
- 5 min
The Importance of Adventure as a Married Couple
THE IMPORTANCE OF ADVENTURE AS A MARRIED COUPLE I’m a Christian mental heath therapist. I work with married couples from all walks of...
Celeste Orr
- 3 min
5 Simple Date Night Ideas for a Fun Marriage
Stale is probably not the way you want to describe your marriage—not now, not ever. But the path to keeping a marriage fun, fresh, and...
Rosemary Sikora
- 3 min
Five Lessons from the First Year of Marriage
In writing this I feel as if I’m writing a love letter of sorts to my husband. Marriage can be hard, but what good thing doesn’t take...
Susan Hagen
- 5 min
Divorce Rate Cut in Half for Couples Who Discussed Relationship Movies
Love Story, 1970 Pdf link for list of movies and discussion questions. A new study finds that watching and discussing movies about...
Rohini Ross
- 5 min
Strengthen Your Relationship by Getting Good At Making Up
Conflict looks like it is the biggest problem in relationships, but according to Dr. John Gottman, the amount of conflict in a...
Jennifer Pesetsky
- 2 min
How Conflicts Help You Understand Your Partner
Does this sound familiar? You think the conflict is about who is going to pick up your child after school. It’s going to be a simple...
iMom
- 3 min
The 8 Benefits of Praying With Your Spouse
When I was in college there was a girl I really didn’t like. Every time we were around each other we rubbed one another the wrong way. I...
Corinne Issa
- 4 min
The Importance of Date Night
They call it the seven-year-itch for a reason: the fact is, falling in love is really not that hard. Staying in love? That’s another...
Rob Marco
- 5 min
The Healing of Memories | Cooperating with Grace To Heal From Past Sins
Like most men who survived their twenties, I was a regular consumer of pornography. Not occasionally, and not compulsively, but somewhere...
Anna Aslanian, LMFT
- 4 min
Conversational Boundaries without Stonewalling
Difficult conversations can lead to flooding. Learn how to set conversational boundaries without stonewalling. During stressful times, it...
Terry Gaspard
- 4 min
The Rituals in Our Marriage That Keep Us Close
Terry Gaspard identifies the six habits of happily married people. There is definitely an art and a science to successful marriage. In...
Cynthia Nathan
- 4 min
Why is Pre-Marriage Education Course a Good Idea?
Hello everyone, I’m Cynthia Nathan, Relationship Counsellor and Marriage and Relationship Educator at 3R Counselling. My work in the...
Allison DeBoer
- 5 min
Moving through the Clouds of Discernment
More than once, having paused from my daily tasks or stresses, I have glanced up at the heavens, searching for the reminder that there is...