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When Your Spouse Has a Different Stress Resp...
As a married couple, you likely each have a different stress response. How can you leverage relationship stress to draw you together as a team?
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The Enneagram and My Marriage
I’m Jenn. I’m a 9. If you’re a 6, like my husband, you’re waiting to decide if I’m knowledgeable about the Enneagram until after you hear what I say.
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“I want sex more than he does!”...
1 in 5 women have the higher sex drive. But when our husbands decline--or rarely initiate sex--it leaves us thinking, What's wrong with him? Or is it me?
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Why Sex Is So Important to Your Husband
God wired men and women very differently. And a man's sexual performance with his wife is an inseparable part of who he is.
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A Backdoor to Happiness in Marriage
If you want a great relationship, learn to showcase your spouse.
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Embracing Your Differences in Marriage
The unique, fresh traits that attracted you to your spouse can become tiresome after you are married.
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Do We Have to Talk About Submission?
Submission is one of those often caricatured, rarely understood parts of the Christian life.
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Does Your Spouse Annoy You?
Accepting your differences will help you mature beyond the downsides of your personalities.
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Why Sex Is So Important to Your Wife
God created sex in marriage to be shared, not withheld.
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Complete List of No-No’s for Relating...
The following comments were given by women when they were asked, “What ‘no-no’s’ do you have for a man about relating to his wife?”
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Bringing Out the Best in Your Spouse
God uses marriage to complete and “perfect” a man and wife.
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Loving Your Man Without Losing Your Mind
What I did when my husband wouldn't change his irritating ways.
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Lies Husbands and Wives Tell Each Other
Partial truth is not truth. We have to be diligent to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.
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Demystifying Differences Through Communicati...
These four techniques can give men and women better understanding.
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Q&A: What Communicates Love and Romance...
When it comes to romance, the sexes speak a different language.
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Q&A: Stressed, Exhausted, and Not in the...
Has God played a cruel joke by giving many men a strong sex drive?
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Q&A: Making Decisions When You Disagree
Balancing roles and relationship in decision making.
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The “Superior Wife Syndrome”
In the end, it's not a big deal if my husband does things differently than I would.
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When Opposites Attract in Marriage
How to deal with the differences that can rob a relationship of its peaceful, accepting love.
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Two Stupid Things Husbands and Wives Do to E...
Have you ever committed one of these acts of “Cupidity”?
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Q&A: The Need for Friends
What can I say to a husband who doesn't understand my need for good friends?
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How Do Men and Women Differ in How They View...
We believe that sex is a beautiful, God-given desire that can bring a husband and wife together in oneness
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A Woman’s Emotions
We are made in the emotional image of God, so we shouldn't be afraid of those feelings when they crop up.
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