Building a Healthy Marriage
Going for the Gold
During the Olympic Games three medals are awarded in each event: the bronze for third place, the silver for second, and the gold for first. What is often lost in view is what it took for a team or a single competitor to finish in one of the three top spots. They are all the [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( Comments Off )Understanding the Challenges of Marriage
There is no single type of marriage within our culture today, and within every culture, including our own, there is no “one size that fits all.” In one sense they are as diverse as the people in them; in another sense, good marriages have more in common than do poor, conflicted or dysfunctional ones. When [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( Comments Off )Our Marriage Creed
Eons ago when a couple married, it was expected that he would “love, honor and cherish,” and she would “love, honor and obey.” Since over time it wasn’t clear which should obey and which should cherish, so we settled on both cherishing and the obey got left out. If both cherish the other, that was [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( Comments Off )Checking out your Perception of Marriage
What does marriage mean to us? What is the purpose of marriage in the first place? Why do couples marry? Why do we marry the person we do marry? What makes for a healthy marriage? What roots are needed for a marriage to last through ups and downs and storms of life? Why do some [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( Comments Off )Styles of Relating within a Marriage
What makes for a functional marriage is two functional persons covenanting together to form a functional relationship is which all major needs are met in sufficient ways to allow them to share out of their wholeness with one another in need satisfying ways on a dependable basis. However, when the couple is not functional, then [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( Comments Off )Traits of a Healthy Marriage and Family
A healthy family is the product of a healthy marriage, and a healthy marriage is the product of two healthy partners loving and being loved in need satisfying, dependable ways. Unhealthy families are the product of unhealthy marriages. As the marriage goes, so goes the family. The heart of the family is the strength of [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( Comments Off )Renewing Your Marriage
Some marriages never go stale, do not get taken for granted, and have a built-in way of continually being renewed. This is because both partners realize the value of their relationship, have found ways of keeping the inner fires stoked, are mutually committed to its growth and vitality, and above all else want it to [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( Comments Off )Seasons of a Marriage
Sari Harrar and Rita Demaria have written about what they term the “Seven Stages of Marriage.” They are referring to first marriages but the same basics apply to remarriages except in this case the stages happen in a shorter time frame when one or both the partners have had a previous marriage relationship. They list [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( Comments Off )Communication: The Key to Marrital Intimacy
If you ask me what I think about marriage and being married to Donna, what I will have to share is out of my perceptions of marriage and especially my perceptions of her as my wife. But what I share, as sincere as I make it, is not going to contain any really original thoughts [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( Comments Off )What Every Marriage Needs, Including Ours
Healthy marriages are a delight to behold, and even more than that a wonderful thing to experience from the inside. They are need-satisfying relationships in which each partner finds a high level of satisfaction in all the areas of the heart-hungers cites in January’s presentation. In being able to build and maintain such a quality [...]
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