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Oct 21
Love15

Our Private Business: Does God Disapprove?

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Our sex life in the privacy of our home is our business, right? Would God disapprove of anything we do when we’re making love? You and your spouse are incredibly blessed; you get to experience God’s gift of sexual intimacy within your marriage. Making love with your husband or wife can be an adventure, more amazing than you ever dreamed. If you’re engaged but not yet married, you’re probably looking forward to marriage with great anticipation of this almost incomprehensible freedom together. Once you’re married, though, you might wonder what rules God has placed around sex within marriage. What’s OK…

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Oct 14
Love14

Living Separate Lives: When Spouses Disconnect

By Communication, Conflict One Comment

My wife and I live separate lives, but God hates divorce. Does God want us to be miserable? If you’re experiencing a dry season in your marriage, take heart–every marriage goes through difficult seasons. Every relationship experiences ebbs and flows in intimacy, and no married couple is going to feel emotionally connected all the time. But right now, it sounds like you feel entrenched, unsatisfied and empty. If you and your spouse have grown overly independent, your marriage may have begun to feel boring and unfulfilling. Maybe you’re still committed, even though that commitment may have been tested. And perhaps…

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Oct 12
Love23

Facing Stress Together: How to Keep Your Sanity & Marriage Intact

By Communication, Conflict 9 Comments

Going through a stressful season or life event can take a toll on your marriage and family. How do you deal with the stress together, while keeping your sanity and marriage intact? Today, we’re sharing some tips on how to deal with stressful times as a couple. Remember You’re on the Same Team When the going gets tough, it can be easy for spouses to become agitated with–or even pitted against–one another. We know this isn’t where you want to end up! So when you’re really feeling the pressure of whatever situation you’re in, breathe and remind yourself that the…

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Sep 21
Love19

What to Do When You Don’t Share Interests

By Communication, Conflict 3 Comments

“Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection.” –Franklin D. Roosevelt He likes going to football games. You like going to concerts. She likes Mexican food. You like Chinese. While love for each other is your common bond, you may not share the same hobbies or interests. So, what do you do when you’re trying to decide how to spend your free time (or even decide what to eat for dinner)? In today’s video, we’re discussing what it means when you don’t share the same interests, and how to leverage that for the growth and betterment of your relationship. “As…

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Aug 31
Love20

Lights On or Lights Off? Sex and Comfort

By Communication, Conflict, Self Reflection 5 Comments

So you’re newly married–and with marriage comes a fantastic sense of freedom. Finally, the two of you get to cultivate the intimacy you’ve been dreaming about during all these months and years of dating and engagement. It should feel liberating for both of you…but what if it doesn’t? Oftentimes, the introduction of physical intimacy in a new marriage can feel sudden and invasive, especially if you’re a new wife. For many women, exposing themselves completely to their husbands–no matter how long they’ve been married–is an uncomfortable, tense experience. In today’s blog post, we’re sharing tips to help you increase physical…

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Aug 26
Love17

That Time of the Month: Coping With Her PMS

By Communication, Conflict, In-laws & Family No Comments

Why do women get a free pass to act however they want during PMS–and we men just have to put up with it? Trust me (Leslie)–women do not want to act out of character during premenstrual syndrome (PMS)…that lovely time of the month before “that time of the month.” You’d be hard-pressed to find any woman who relishes the upheaval of hormones and emotions that occurs during PMS. It’s really a miserable thing to experience. In today’s video, I’m talking to husbands about constructive ways to handle their wives’ PMS. PMS is an illness with no external symptoms, but on…

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Aug 24
Love18

Overcoming the Fighting: Chores and Bills

By Communication, Conflict 7 Comments

You and your spouse have sunken into the grind of everyday life, and now you’re up to your eyeballs in chores and bills. On top of all that, you’re fighting over who should handle what! Maybe your spouse has skipped out on housework, leaving you in the lurch. You feel like everything is on your plate–but literally every plate in your house is filthy! What do you do? Today, we’re sharing suggestions for how to break a stalemate when it comes to doing the chores and paying the bills. Who should do what, anyway? And how do you figure it…

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Aug 19
Love12

Banking Together: Our Money or His and Hers?

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Is it a good idea for couples to have separate bank accounts? Unfortunately, this isn’t a question we can answer for every couple, across the board. Every couple is different, so the answer will depend on you and your spouse. When it comes to money and bank accounts, each spouse needs to have some measure of freedom, autonomy, and choice when it comes to how the two of you handle your finances. In today’s video, we’re discussing the heavy topic of money in marriage. We’ve seen some couples successfully keep separate bank accounts because that’s what worked for their relationship….

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Aug 17
Love16

Major Decisions: Creating a Successful Plan

By Communication, Conflict 7 Comments

Marriage is a partnership. Part of the beauty of marriage is the ability to work as a team to decide what is best for the two of you as a couple or as a family. Whether you’re looking to buy a house, planning to expand your family, or one of you is trying to make a big career move, it’s important to know how to navigate life’s big decisions together. Every decision that comes your way affects your marriage–for good or for bad. When you two learn to how to work together in a way that honors each other and…

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Aug 12
Love17

How to Know Your Marriage is in Trouble

By Communication, Conflict, Self Reflection 2 Comments

What are some basic signs that your marriage is in trouble? There’s no exhaustive or magic list that details all the different danger signs for your marriage, but if there’s something in your relationship that’s raising a red flag, now is the time to look closely at it. In today’s video, we’re discussing some different signs that your marriage may be in danger, and what to do. One thing you can do to gauge where your relationship is would be to ask yourself, on a scale from 1 to 10, how satisfied you are with your current marriage relationship. For…

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