Disturbing the Peace

Is your bad mood bad for your marriage?

Domestically Challenged!

4 women share their secrets on dealing with household issues.

Do You Have Any Dating Tips for Married Couples?

Most everyone agrees on the importance of married couples scheduling date nights with one another. Yet roadblocks like making time for the dates and deciding on what to...

Are You and Your Spouse Using Twitter?

I'm just figuring Twitter out. Bob wants nothing to do with it. If you are a follower of Twitter, a fast growing social networking site on the web, you can...

What is Kindness in Marriage?

Being kind to one another is something we do without really thinking about it. Bob opens doors for me. I move the driver's seat back in the car. Bob picks...

Not a Good Solution

Handcuffing yourself to your spouse and then biting and scratching your spouse is not the way to reconciliation! "Police say 37-year-old Helen Sun told them she wanted to have a conversation...

Fixing Those Irritations

Requesting change is a 3-step art. Here's how.

Forum Discussion: Is This Abuse?

Reading through the Marriage Forum this evening, I noticed this response to the question, "Is This Abuse?" It is worth reading. "You are my mom! "Ok, so you aren't, but you are...

Heartbreaking and Shocking Loss of Natasha Richardson

Natasha Richardson died today. Our hearts go out to Natasha's husband, sons, family, and friends. Although I wasn't searching for an article about losing one's spouse, a timely article...

Do You Let Your Spouse Please You?

Do you let your spouse please you, both sexually and in other ways? How you respond to things your spouse does for you to express his/her love can set the...

Acceptance With Joy

Listening to music again today took my mind back to a difficult time in our lives. After the shock of a miscarriage in our fourth month of our third pregnancy,...

Thankfully, No Shotgun Wedding for Bristol Palin

When Sarah Palin announced Bristol's pregnancy and summer wedding last September, we wrote: "... we hope they [couples] don't rush into marriage because a baby is about to be born." In...

Common Cents

Squeezed for Time?

Why hoping for a 26-hour day isn't the answer

A Child-Centered Life

What to do when your world revolves around your kids.

Me vs. You

Ten ways to break a stalemate on a big decision

Does your marriage need a Tune-Up?

What causes this once smooth-running machine to knock and sputter?

Portrait of a Marriage: "A Lousy Divorce"

Doug and Mary McNeil faced money woes, foreclosure, and even separation. What next?

Marriage Martyr

I was vying for the title of "Most Taken for Granted"â€"but what did I expect to win?

The Real Thing

Through the years we've discovered what true God-love is and what it isn'tâ€"and what that means for our marriage.

Will Spring Ever Arrive?

Where we live, we are not supposed to have snow this time of year and yet it has snowed the past two days. Enough!! If you have the winter blues,...

"Hit the Road, Jack" -- The Chris Brown/Rihanna Saga

Yes, we've been listening to the radio again. When we heard "Hit the Road, Jack" sung by Ray Charles today, we thought about the obvious dysfunctional relationship of Chris Brown...

My Husband, My Friend

I went to bed last night not feeling up to par. This morning when I awoke and able to get my eyes to focus, I saw that Bob had picked...

Meaningful Lyrics

While we were out for a short drive today, we heard a song from the 1960s, sung by Nat King Cole, that had lyrics that we thought were quite meaningful. "If...