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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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July 20, 2018

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…

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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July 16, 2018

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…

Overcoming Hurtful Words — Interview with Janell Rardon

Lizzy Christian
Articles, Conflict, Dating, Emotions, Engaged, Expectations, For Her, For Him, Interviews, Issues, Married, Practical, Relationship, Relationships
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July 13, 2018

In Janell Rardon’s book, Overcoming Hurtful Words, she challenges readers to “reflect, reframe, and reauthor” their thinking to thrive in all areas of life. Focusing on the foundational importance of communication in marriage, I asked Janell, a Board Certified Life Coach, about the power of words in marriage, finding hope in trying times, and where…

The Daily Habit that Shaped our Marriage and Family

My husband, Jim, and I got married in 1988 on a frozen, snowy January day in Indiana. After our wedding, I joined him at Eastern University (then Eastern College) in Philadelphia, PA, where he studied for an MBA and I studied for a degree in sociology. We lived in a tiny apartment on the third…

Washing the Feet of Your Spouse

Noelene Curry
Articles, Dating, Engaged, Faith, For Her, For Him, Married, Relationships
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June 20, 2018

“Love isn’t what you feel, it’s what you do consistently over time.” —Mathew L. Jacobson It is my belief that once you are married, you should consistently set time aside every year to wash each other’s feet. To wash someone’s feet you need a servant’s heart and humility – two vital ingredients for any marriage….