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May 2024

May 13, 2024

How To Stop Being a Snowplow Parent – Part 1

This is Part 1 of a two-part series for those of us parents who just...

May 07, 2024

A Mother’s Day Message of Hope

With Mother’s Day coming up, and with my own sweet mom navigating a recent health...

May 02, 2024

When You Hear Something that Rocks Your World

I recently shared a meal with someone who was getting more and more agitated as...

April 2024

April 23, 2024

A Personal Update – Gratitude Edition

Here is a quick update on my personal health, our family, and my latest research...

April 16, 2024

Why Is It So Hard to Talk About Sex?

Let’s be honest: Conversations (or blogs!) about sex can seem embarrassing or vulnerable. And yet,...

April 09, 2024

How to Handle Unmet Money Expectations (Part 2)

Money. Conflict. Those two words are paired a lot more often than most of us...

April 02, 2024

How to Handle Unmet Money Expectations (Part 1)

This is a two-part series on how to view money as a source of connection...

March 2024

March 28, 2024

How to Live With Unshakeable Hope

God wants us to have a sense of hope even if we don’t get the...

March 21, 2024

What I’m Loving Lately—March 2024 Edition

Hi friends! To adjust the lyrics from the old Rodgers & Hammerstein song, spring is...

March 12, 2024

Finding Contentment in the Everyday

What I discovered is what I hope you do, too: that contentment is available to...

March 05, 2024

What Wives Need Most From Their Husbands (Part 2)

In our For Men Only research, we found that fully 82% of women have an...

February 2024

February 27, 2024

What Wives Need Most From Their Husbands (Part 1)

We hope this will help you understand what makes your wife tick, and help you...

February 20, 2024

What Husbands Need Most From Their Wives (Part 2)

As wives, we have the sacred privilege of realizing how tender our husbands’ hearts really...

February 13, 2024

What Husbands Need Most From Their Wives (Part 1)

This is the first part of a multi-part series on what our spouses need, but...

February 06, 2024

In Money and Marriage

Friends, we have to do the same thing. We may have no idea how God...

January 2024

January 30, 2024

What Forgiveness Can Teach Us About Creating a Thriving Life

imple Superpowers Series, Part 4: Researchers have identified simple superpowers that help us flourish in our...

January 23, 2024

What Forgiveness Can Teach Us About Creating a Thriving Life

n this life we are 100% sure to be hurt by others. And without forgiveness,...

January 18, 2024

What a Unicorn Whale Can Teach Us About Marriage

In other words: Because you saw something from under the surface that was visible for...

January 09, 2024

What an Attitude Adjustment Can Teach Us

If we want to make changes in our lives and relationships in the new year,...

December 2023

December 19, 2023

November 2023

November 28, 2023

Solutions for Sarcasm? Yeah, Right. (Nix the Negativity Series, Part 3)

At its best, sarcasm and joking around can create levity in hard situations. We all...

November 21, 2023

From Grumbling to Grateful! (Nix the Negativity Series, Part 2)

Even though most of us want to think we’re glass-half-full types, we all grumble and...

November 14, 2023

Always Suspicious of Your Spouse (or Others)? Here’s What To Do! (Nix the Negativity, Part 1)

Suspicion. We can descend into that spiral with a spouse, friend, or colleague without ever...

November 07, 2023

7 Date Night Do’s and Don’ts (Part 2)

This is Part 2 of a two-part series on date night ideas that can help...

October 2023

October 31, 2023

7 Date Night Do’s and Don’ts (Part 1)

Date night. Have two words ever caused more expectation and pressure for couples? (Well, maybe...

October 24, 2023

Broken Trust in a Relationship? Here’s What To Do.

Too often when trust has been broken, the person who broke the trust wants to...

October 17, 2023

7 Steps to Keep Defensiveness from Ruining Our Relationships (Part 2)

This is Part 2 of a two-part series on how to reduce defensiveness and have...

October 10, 2023

7 Steps to Keep Defensiveness from Ruining Our Relationships (Part 1)

One woman told me that in reading The Surprising Secrets of Highly Happy Marriages she...