Great job seeking wisdom from others so early in your marriage.  That shows you really want your marriage to last a lifetime! Read any of the helpful Scriptures listed in this guide and let’s discuss. Read one of the helpful articles listed in this guide and let’s discuss. Remember that you are not alone if you experience […]

“Leaving means starting a whole new relationship in which the core loyalty is not to parents’ priorities, traditions, or influence but to an entirely new family that must set its own course, form, and purpose.”

You are to be commended for your willingness to seek reconciliation in your marriage.  Ask God to continue giving you a willing heart. Rather than considering divorce, choose to believe that God can still change hearts and your marriage. Nothing is impossible with God. Be involved in a local, Bible-believing church for spiritual growth and accountability. Remember […]

“When marriage is filled with more withdrawals than deposits, it’s easy to forget why you married in the first place … The same love that drew us to our mates so that we wanted to spend our lives with them is still there.  It may be covered over with the trauma of irritations and the […]

“Many couples, young and old, find themselves in an unofficial lifetime game of competition.  It may be played to prove that one spouse is smarter than the other is, or it may be played to establish which spouse will be head of the family … It might begin as fun, but if often ends in […]

“True repentance will lead to feelings of indignity and anger at the past damage, a desire to make restitution, and a renewed longing for purity and godliness (2 Corinthians 7:11).”

“Our real opponent is not on the opposite side of the bed, but within our hearts.  Our enemy is the desires of our flesh that oppose the desire of the Spirit.  This is the fiercest and only true enemy of our marriage.”

“When I hear of couples who break up after just three or four years, I feel sad because they haven’t even begun to experience what being married is really like … Becoming one—in the deepest, most intimate sense—takes time.  It’s a journey that never really ends, but it takes at least the span of a […]

“God only allows two people at a time in the boxing ring.  If you want to get into the ring and try to fight your own battles, God will let you.  But He’ll get out.  If you want God to fight your battles for you, then you must get out of the ring … and […]

“Scripture does not give me permission to make the sins of my spouse my first priority.  I need to slow down, exercise the humility of self-suspicion, and inspect my own heart first.”