Clik here to view.
Setting Boundaries in Marriage: What Does that Look Like?
What does setting healthy boundaries in marriage look like? We’re often good at getting mad or resentfully accommodating, but usually not so good at setting healthy boundaries. Boundaries. That is a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Quality Time Love Language Challenge
Introducing our quality time love experiment for the month- connecting with your spouse for 10 minutes at the end of every day. Alright, it’s almost April and that means its time to introduce our...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Quality Time Love Language Guide
Five keys to speaking the love language of quality time. I hope I’ve gotten the message across clearly in this blog that I am no marriage expert. I am a FAR cry from a perfect spouse and find it very...
View ArticleClik here to view.
27 Stay At Home Dates You Can Do From Your Couch
Because most stay at home date ideas still require too much energy, here are 27 at home dates you can do from your couch. Here’s the truth: Rich and I are not very good about date nights. I know I...
View ArticleSpiritual Sunday: Why Do I Need Jesus?
Happy Easter dear readers. My thoughts today have been on the question: why do I need Jesus? Not, why do YOU need Jesus, but why do I need Jesus. This isn’t an essay to convince you to accept Christ...
View ArticleClik here to view.
How to Spend Quality Time With Your Spouse When You’re Rarely Together
If you have limited time together, you need to learn how to make the most of the time you do have together. Here are four ways to do that from couples who have been there. This month we’re talking all...
View ArticleClik here to view.
4 Ways I Unintentionally Harm My Relationship: A Review of Jennifer...
Before we dive in here I want to let you, my readers know how much I value you. I try to listen to your emails and comments and let your ideas dictate my post topics. And I don’t try to sell you junk....
View ArticleClik here to view.
April Love Experiment Recap: Quality Time
What happens when you take 10 minutes to connect with your spouse everyday? Good things. Good things happen. We just wrapped up our love experiment for the month- connecting with our spouse for 10...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Schedule Date Nights With Other Couples More Often
Getting together with other couples lets you see your spouse in a new light, helps you to laugh together and strengthens your friendship with your spouse. By Josalyn I remember having a conversation...
View ArticleClik here to view.
7 Ways to Reconnect With Your Spouse
Often when we let our connection to our spouse slip, it seems overwhelming or daunting to get that connection back again. It can be easier to isolate ourselves waiting for our spouse to do the work....
View ArticleClik here to view.
How to Volunteer and Give Back When You Are Busy!
Hi friends, I wanted to introduce you to Garrett (who has previously guest posted on this blog with the article 101 Porn Addiction Side Effects). Garrett is all about helping all of kinds of addicts in...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Gift Giving Love Language Challenge
Introducing our love experiment for the month- giving a gift to your spouse every Friday for a month. Alright, it is June and that means its time to introduce our Marriage Laboratory Experiment of the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
46 Just Because Gift Ideas to Make Your Spouse’s Day
Ever want to brighten your spouse’s day just because? Me too. Here are 46 just because gift ideas guaranteed to make your spouse’s day. Our love experiment this month is all about speaking the love...
View ArticleClik here to view.
DIY Anniversary Gifts. Free and Sappy Gifts (that we’ve actually made).
19 of our most successful DIY anniversary gifts. Your guide to free, sappy and creative gift giving (also good for birthdays and Christmas). I’ve been doing some research for this post. I’ve been...
View ArticleSpiritual Sunday: Am I a Success?
Happy Sunday everyone! This month for my spiritual Sunday post, I’m going to re-post something I wrote for lds.org that got published a week or so ago. When I submitted the article I called it, “Am I a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Creative Gift Ideas for Her: Come Learn from the Master
When I thought about what posts to write for gifts month, I knew, I just knew I had to ask my friends Shelly and Jershon to guest post (again. check out their creative date ideas here). They are the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
June Love Experiment Recap: GIFT GIVING
What happens when you give your spouse a gift every week for a month? Good things. Good things happen. We just wrapped up our love experiment for the month- giving them a gift every week for a month....
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Very First Step Toward Your Happy Marriage
A happy marriage. We all want it. Sometimes its there in abundance and sometimes it feels so darn elusive that we’ll never have it. Why is that? Before we can understand how to have a happy marriage,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Using The Color Code Personality Test to Understand Your Spouse
I first encountered the Color Code personality test in high school at a church camp. After we each took the test, we made little felt people in our color and made them into necklaces to wear all week...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Do I Need My Anger?
Recently it was my choice to pick our monthly book for my book club. I chose Loving What Is. Shocker I know. Not everyone loved it, which is totally fine because truth be told, I don’t love the...
View Article