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The Six People in Your Marriage… Who Gets Priority?

Melissa Gendreau
Articles, Dating, Engaged, Faith, For Her, For Him, General, Issues, Married, Relationships
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The youth pastor at our church got married last month. While I wasn’t able to attend, I heard the pastor made a point not often discussed: there are six people that enter into the marriage—you, your spouse’s expectation of you, God’s view of you, your spouse as they understand themselves, your expectation of your spouse,…

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Improve Your Marriage By Refocusing Your Thoughts

Ana Nichols
Articles, Communication, Conflict, Dating, Engaged, Faith, For Her, For Him, Issues, Married, Relationship, Relationships
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You will keep perfectly peaceful the one whose mind remains focused on you, because he remains in you. —Isaiah 26:3 I heard a pastor’s wife share her story of how her marriage became better in the first few years the other day. Her story was one with the potential to strengthen any marriage at any…

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The Gift of Disappointment

Dorothy Greco
Articles, Conflict, Emotions, Engaged, Expectations, Issues, Married, Relationship, Relationships, Sex
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All marriages face disappointment. It doesn’t matter how well matched or how mature we are. We shouldn’t feel worried about occasional bouts of disappointment. We should feel concerned if we get stuck there. When we experience disappointment and it’s neither spouse’s fault (such as a loss of employment due to corporate downsizing or infertility), we…

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What if Forgiveness is Tough?

Paul Gibson
Articles, Conflict, Divorce, Faith, Holidays, Issues, Relationship, Relationships
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Forgiveness will always be tough. Forgiveness in marriage can be extremely difficult at times when we feel deeply betrayed. I believe we can learn a lot about forgiveness in our marriages by looking at the Cross. If you are a Christian, you follow someone who was despised and rejected by humanity. But betrayal can often look…

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3 Financial Questions to Ask Before You Say “I Do”

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Articles, Engaged, Faith, For Her, For Him, Married, Relationships
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If all the key factors in your relationship right now are pointing towards love and marriage, it is time to have a substantial understanding of how your potential future spouse thinks about the topic and issues related to money. Now, before you dismiss this as cold or irrelevant to your decision-making criteria, please read further….