Appreciating Each Other

Happily married couples appreciate what they each bring to the relationship. Their union is more than just the process of addition. One plus one now equals ...

When Love Is Fair

Love is fair when it builds up both the lover and the beloved, when it increases both and diminishes neither, when it brings them close and lets them ...

Marriage Doesn't Bring Fulfillment

Marriage isn't going to fulfill you. Only a relationship with Christ will. When you come to that realization, it can free you to really love your ...

Wealth in Poverty

Old debt accompanied our new marriage. Income from Peter's free-lance job was unpredictable. As Christmas approached and other couples were buying ...

Sexual Disillusionment

Our society has had a decade and a half of experimentation with random sexual freedom. We have discovered that it is neither so very sexy nor so very ...

The Second-Greatest Gift

To have peace and love in a marriage is a gift that is next to the knowledge of the gospel.

The Two Sides of Marriage

By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll become happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

The Couple That Prays Together

Praying with their wives is one of the last things some men do. Why? Perhaps it's because prayer places them in a position of dependence upon God and ...

The Wetting

I was embarrassed when I, the groom, cried at my own wedding. I was doubly mortified when our flower girl, my 7-year-old sister, drew a picture of the ...

Love Never Changes

Your face I love, but should it change

by wrinkles, scars, disease,

Love would not change, for I love you,

not just what my eye sees.

And so, though time's ...