What does it mean to have an impact on your corner of the world? At FamilyLife, we desire to equip families, like yours, to grow together and impact their corner of the world. You may be newly married, or you may have a few decades of marriage behind you. You may be parents to a
Stuck in the mud A few years ago, I travelled with a few friends to go camping on a property their family had just bought in Mozambique. This untouched piece of land was only accessible by driving for over 100km on a gravel road and then eventually going off “road” by GPS coordinates to get
They say “Love is blind” … and marriage is the cure. Or, marriage is like receiving a phone call in the middle of the night; first the ring, and then you wake up… Or perhaps you’ve heard about the bloke who said, “I married my wife for her looks, but not the looks she’s giving
In my final year of high school, I got into the hobby of photography. A friend and I took a week-long trip to go camping and hiking in the mountains and we had our cameras and tripods ready to capture some awesome images. There are a lot of great shots we took on that trip,
Drift. A marriage can never be stagnant. It is always going somewhere. You are either growing on your journey towards oneness, or you’re drifting apart. Every marriage finds itself somewhere on this spectrum between isolation and oneness.
The secret to “happily ever after” is finding your soul mate, right? Wrong! Here’s why; and an alternative mindset you may want to adopt. Relationship investment mindset Great marriages don’t just happen. Even the best of relationships have challenges. That doesn’t mean you’ve married the wrong person, it simply means you’re married. You see, many
Having been involved with FamilyLife and working with couples for over 28 years I’ve noticed that people assume I’m a ‘sexpert’. I’m not, but I have learnt a lot about intimacy from listening to real experts, studying, and speaking with countless couples on this topic. I often get asked for advice on how to improve
Have you ever fought about money in your relationship? I bet you have. I bet that some of your fiercest arguments have involved finances. Money is, and probably always has been, one of the leading causes of conflict in marriage. Why is that? Why does the issue of money get so much of our mental
Have you ever wondered that you might have married the wrong person? Often when we fall in love, we do so because that person is different from us. We enjoy and appreciate those differences because they bring freshness and diversity to our lives. And then we get married. After marriage, what happens? Those differences that once attracted
Nobody likes them, right, and yet we all need to have them if our relationships are going to deepen and grow. I remember having a limiting belief in my marriage that went something like this, “I don’t want to talk about this because it will be too hard and it will all go wrong. If
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