Strategic Romance in Marriage

Do you need a bit more romance in your marriage? How about strategic romance? Now, we’re not just talking about Valentine’s Day or an anniversary celebration where you throw a little romance at each other. We’re talking about being more intentional than that. And we aren’t talking about only doing Read More…

Spark up Your Marriage with Creative Romance

“Unfortunately, many couples have lost the spark they shared before they married and have replaced it with a humdrum routine.” [Creative romance can too easily become a thing of the past.] We hope this isn’t true for you right now. But wait! It just may in the future. It happens Read More…

More Romantic Things to Do

In the previous Marriage Insight we gave you a list of things you can do to increase the romance in your marriage. So how many did you try? If you said there weren’t any on that list that appealed to you, here are even more romantic things you can try. Read More…

Romantic Things To Do – Part 1

“The strength of your marriage depends on the choices you make to improve it.” (Doug Fields) And one of those important “choices” is to intentionally do romantic things with your spouse. We’re visiting (actually revisiting) this topic hoping it spurs you on to grow your romantic life with your spouse. We’re Read More…

When Marriage Is No Longer Fun

Have you (ever) been in a place when your marriage is no longer fun? Most of us have. Debi Walter, from Theromanticvineyard.com talks about this in a blog she blessed us to pass onto you: “If you’ve been married longer than a few months you’ve most likely come to this place. Read More…

Understand Your Spouse (Part 1) – MM #263

A perplexing thing about marriage is how you live together day after day and yet you can still understand very little about each other. When we marry most of us believe this won’t be “OUR” problem. We think this happens to other married couples, but not to us.  And then Read More…

Good Marriages Require Effort – MM #116

The title of this Marriage Message is, “Good Marriages Require Effort.” We named it that because that’s what it takes to make a marriage a good one. It takes a lot of effort. Sometimes it is easier than other times, but it also takes times of stretching outside of our Read More…

Anniversaries: a Time to Focus – Marriage Message #87

It’s that time again for us. We just celebrated our Wedding Anniversary (we got married in 1972, so you do the math). We’re still going strong and love each other more than ever before! Many years ago we couldn’t have said that. It would have been doubtful that we would Read More…

The Romance Factor: When Busyness Gets In The Way

Has life between you and your spouse become so “matter-of-fact” that you’ve almost forgotten what romance looked like in your relationship? Has it begun to look like a distant memory? Is your busyness getting in the way of your romance with your spouse? We know that a lot of women Read More…

Romancing Your Wife

If there’s any area in which we need to study our wives to serve them better, it’s in romancing her and bringing feelings of intimacy to the surface. Ask a guy what romance is, however, and he’ll mumble something about a candlelight dinner or a bouquet of roses. It’s more Read More…