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Many couples spend more time planning their wedding than planning their marriage. In today’s rush-rush schedule, we spend a lot of time planning our vacation, our fishing trip, our career, or whatever, but don’t plan and prepare for the most important, life-changing event ever: your marriage. Parents sometimes finance their ...

The first young lady I kissed became my wife, and the Lord gave us over 53 years together before she went home to be with the Lord. The second lady I kissed became my second wife, and we have now been married for over three and a half years. In ...

Customs and ideas about marriage change over the years.  But God’s Word doesn’t. A recent survey (The Hill)  reported that two in five young adults consider marriage an outdated tradition. Another study from the Institute for Family Studies found that nearly 80% of teens expect to cohabit before marriage.  In ...

According to the US Census Bureau and the American Psychological Association, 40 to 50 percent of all marriages end in divorce. The reason most given is—irreconcilable differences. This means whatever the problems that this life brought to them, they could not find a way to solve them together. The overwhelming ...

Not so long ago, I wrote an article entitled the “New Shoes Phase.” This is a fancy way to describe the fresh new feelings and adventures associated with the beginning phase of intimate relationships. But just as how shoes get old, the initial excitement in relationships will get old too. ...