Marriage Advice Blog

Managing Anger

Accountability in Your Marriage! Must Have...Must Do!

Lots of us brought BAGGAGE into our marriages

When Barb and I married, we were in our 40s and had lots of history behind us. The discussion centered around whether or not to discuss our past lives with e...

Help! My Spouse Is Attracted To Someone Else

Couldn't happen at MY house. Be careful, what follows is not unusual... “Honey, if I die first, who would you want to marry?” “If we hadn’t married, who would...

Could be the most important NUGGET for parents...ever!

If you have kids or hope to in the future, you probably envision teaching them certain things, from how to throw a baseball to perfecting your grandmother’s...

Mastering Multiple LOVE Languages

We have talked a lot about learning how to love your mate the way he or she wants to be loved...not the way you want to be loved. Often your spouse will have...

My Spouse has a selective listening problem...

Sound familiar to any of you? Does your spouse tune you out? Somebody has opined that women use perhaps 2x as many words each day as men. My bride will tell...

Here's the KEY...see what it opens!

Dear God, when I carve out precious moments to spend with You, You reward me abundantly: You bring clarity to my thoughts and order to the circumstances of my...

5 Excellent Ways to Fight FOR Your Marriage. Will You Do It?

When you fight for your marriage, you do what it takes to make it last. And it doesn't always look how you’d expect. From our friends at PREPARE/ENRICH...one...

Lost in Translation: When Your Spouse’s Love Language Doesn’t Land

I love me some Les and Leslie Parrott and Gary Chapman. Here's a dynamite article which will resonate with many of you. What do you do when your spouse doesn’t...

Then and Now!

Almost 40 years ago, the girl in the red and blue and green sweater dress sacheted into the single adult Bible class I was teaching at Park Cities Baptist...

Hope for Troubled Marriages

Go here for a form to get some help: https://www.focusonthefamily.com/finding-hope-for-your-hurting-marriage-form/ Your marriage didn’t always feel this...