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4 Ways to Rekindle Your Heart Toward Your Spouse

Melissa Gendreau
Articles, Dating, Engaged, Faith, For Her, For Him, General, Married, Relationships
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Newly dating couples gush about their partner. They highlight the positives and support, often even defend, all other aspects of their significant other. Their interactions predominately focus on thankfulness and gratitude. They view their partner as a gift. Someone they feel blessed and lucky to be attached to. But that perspective can shift as time…

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Before “I Do”: My Marriage Checklist

Prescott Williamson
Articles, Dating, Engaged, Faith, For Her, For Him, General, Relationships, Single
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At one point in our marriage, my wife needed a break. She instructed me to take my daughter with me to the grocery store, purchase items from the list she provided and to return home. I was ready. I had my snacks, my kids bop playlist, and my checklist. I was focused on this list…

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When Marriage is Messy but Beautiful

Monique Chambers
Articles, Dating, Engaged, Faith, For Her, For Him, General, Married
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When my husband and I first met, we were both in committed relationships with other people, and neither one of us could stand each other. I thought he was a chauvinist, and he thought I was just another mouthy feminist! Who would’ve thought, years down the road, that the Lord would bring us together? As…

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Marriage and the Mind

We all have mental models . . . that drive our responses to everything we experience. Being aware of your mental models is key to being objective – Elizabeth Thornton As newlyweds, June and Brad often feel like they’re “brailing their way through each day.” Having been raised by dysfunctional single parents, they’re struggling to find…

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3 Ways to Embrace the Differences in Your Marriage

Melissa Gendreau
Articles, Engaged, Faith, For Her, For Him, Married, Relationships
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Males and females are different. And in your marriage, it can become glaringly apparent that there are differences. But God created both male and female in His image. In Genesis 1:27 we read: “So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.” This means our differences are all aspects…