• What good advice have you received that has helped your marriage?
• Have you seen God revive a dead or dying marriage? Explain
• What answer to prayer have you experienced this past year?
• What differences have you bridged & how has this strengthened your marital team?
• What can a couple do to grow in compatibility?

5 comments so far ↓

• 1 Bob // Feb 8, 2008 at 8:57 am

  (USA)  Jay Adam’s "Christian Living in the Home" saved our marriage by turning us to God and desiring to live a God pleasing life rather than a self-pleasing life.
  Our Christian counselor helped us work through a tough time in our 20 year old marriage. This year will be our 39th anniversary. Praise God.
  We are trying to help others now by teaching them in our small group meetings in our home.

• 2 JAMES // Feb 14, 2008 at 10:45 am

  (NIGERIA)  Love, trust, tollerance and patience has helped us trimendously in keeping our home.

• 3 LT // Feb 14, 2008 at 2:55 pm

  (USA) In an effort at better communication, my husband and I recently decided that it’s good to have a conversation, once a week, where we can share any concerns either of us has.

  The idea is that it’s done respectfully and with love, and when both of us are calm and distressed. This would, hopefully, prevent us from saying things in the heat of an emotional moment that might be hurtful and it also gives us the ability, even when the other has hurt us (knowingly or unknowingly) to wait until that appointed time to discuss it in a mature way, instead of trying to address a grievance in the heat of the moment (which usually only leads to a worse situation).

  I feel the Holy Spirit gave me this idea and I wish I’d had it all the years I’ve been married. We might have been communicating better years ago - but, we live and learn. I’m optimistic about this "policy." I think it’s something that would probably benefit all couples.

• 4 Megan // Feb 25, 2008 at 8:15 am

  (SOUTH AFRICA) I am an avid reader and spend lots of time looking for and reading up on topics to help me be a better wife and mother. Some of the books I have read, and have helped me tremendously are:
  "A Woman After God’s Own Heart" - Elizabeth George
  "Five Signs of A Loving Family" - Gary Chapman
  "Intimacy" - Douglas Weiss
  "God Is In The Bedroom Too" - P.B. Wilson
  These and other books have been a blessing to me (and my husband and children have benefited as well).

• 5 ekanem // Mar 2, 2008 at 4:12 pm

  (NIGERIA) Over the years it was quite difficult for my husband and I to communicate without disagreeing to anything or seeing anything good about each other. But I thank God for the Holy Spirit who has opened our eyes, mind, ears, and heart. There is so much we are catching up on with the help of the Bible and testimonies of others. God is really alive.