Engagement & Newlyweds Archives

Get the perspective from a married and a single on how to maintain friendships across lifestyles and seasons!

"My husband and I were married just over three years ago. For the first several years we went to church together regularly..."

If you both decide to open your hearts, God’s love will flow through them, empowering you all to develop a strong marriage.

What makes a marriage flourish? First, build your foundation on Christ. Then what follows will have solid support.

Keep this acrostic for LOVE in mind as you make plans to wow the one you love: Listen, Observe, Vary, Extract!

Chocolates melt and flowers die. Why not give your spouse a Valentine's Day gift that will really improve your marriage?

A few keys to becoming a better wife

If you’re a spender who married a saver, you CAN learn how to decrease the amount of conflict and increase trust between you.

Marriage, like tandem kayaking, assumes that you are going in the same direction, working together and have the same goals.

Sexual fantasies are natural, since God has created us as sexual beings. But how to deal with them in a healthy manner?

How does one go about building a legacy of love that passes through generations? It's simple: serve one another. Love is an action.

It doesn't require a huge wad of cash to make a big impression on your spouse this Christmas. It just takes a little thought.

It may be physical, emotional, mental, or spiritual. Whatever the type of abuse, it eventually destroys the abused and the abuser.

Our role is not to figure out how to fix our spouse. Our role is: How do we reflect Christ in the marriage?

Part 2 in a series on how to handle conflict with love and wisdom.