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How to Date Your Spouse – Lindsey K. Rietzsch

Are you looking to put a little zing back into your relationship? Remember how exciting things used to be before you were married, when you’d get all dressed up, put your best foot forward, and go out for a romantic night on the town? What happened to that sparkle—did it just disappear once you got married? No, it didn’t. But you stopped dating, didn’t you? “How to Date Your Spouse” by author Lindsey K. Rietzsch is a fun and lighthearted book that reminds us how important it is to keep creating special moments together. Now that the goal of marriage … Continue reading →

3 Things to Work on in Your Marriage

Marriage can be difficult at times. Sometimes it is just the daily toll of activities, stress and other items that cause keeping your marriage healthy to get pushed to the back burner. Other times it is crises that cause your marriage relationship to become strained. It is important to remember to consistently work on your marriage and your family life. It is important to work together in all aspects of your marriage life. There are several different areas that you should work on as a couple. Spirituality is one area that you can focus on as a couple. Praying together … Continue reading →

Work on Your Marriage

Marriage is a serious commitment. In our church we believe that marriage lasts forever and that we can be with our families in heaven. It is not a decision to take lightly or to make too quickly. It is a decision that should be made with prayer and fasting. Once you are married it is important to give everything you can to the help make the relationship to work. (I am not advocating staying in an abusive relationship by any means.) Every couple will have times when they struggle and times when they are doing well. Marriage is something that … Continue reading →

Courting Before Dating?

The concept of courtship or courting is really a precursor to the modern-era of dating. In ‘traditional’ courting, it is a highly structured series of activities and the rules are very specific. To court someone involves seeing him or her in a structured atmosphere, usually with a chaperone of some type. To court in modern society would involve invitations to events where the intended will be. Parties held by mutual friends, outings with other couples and so forth. These controlled ‘dates’ would allow the couple to get to know each other without undue stress of maintaining personal images. It’s worth … Continue reading →

Working Through the Difficult Times in Your Marriage

In every marriage there are going to be difficult times. These could be times when you and your spouse are not getting along. These times could come as a result of medical problems or other crises in your family. It could be that one of your has drifted away from the marriage relationship. It is important that you spend time together working through these difficult times in your relationship. Here are five tips to help you through these times. 1) You should pray together every day. As you pray together you will grow closer. You can pray that your differences … Continue reading →

Courting Your Spouse

Do you remember the when you were dating your spouse and that happy tingly feeling that you had? Do you remember all the nice things that you used to do for each other when you were first married? It is important to continue to have that feeling of courtship. A strong marriage helps to hold the family together. It is also important that you have a good relationship with your spouse since we believe in eternal marriage. It takes time to maintain a good relationship with your spouse. It is important to realize that you are each responsible for making … Continue reading →

Courting vs. Dating

Though I can’t speak too much for generations before my time, there does appear to be more negative types of peer pressure on teens nowadays. There are pressures to have a boyfriend or a girlfriend, to party, have sex, try illegal substances, dress in ways that bring unsafe attention to them… What are some things we can do to help our children to grow up safe and pure? Though I won’t claim to have all the answers, I’ve talked with some teens in the past and gathered some perspective in how to do this. Every teen is an individual. It … Continue reading →

Is Your Sex Life on the Skids?

This is a family forum and I’m going to do my best to discuss the following topic in a way that is not offensive. However, as marriages go, having your sex life hit the skids is a problem many couples may face after the birth of children. No matter how active, creative or unlimited their intimacy was prior to children – it seems that having a baby can not only neutralize the interest in physical intimacy, but also cut it off altogether. Identifying the Problem You may think the lack of interest in physical intimacy is the problem, yet strangely … Continue reading →

Express Yourself

Enjoying your Saturday? Great! I am too. We got the lawn mowed, I’ve got some weeding to do and I need to go and find something that will help me eliminate the worries of crab grass – my very much nemesis. My husband and I got into this great debate, however, while we were doing our yard work and the debate began a little on the snippy side – but actually became pretty ribald at the end. Now I am not going to bore you with the details, but here are some of the conclusions we came to. What Came … Continue reading →

Marriage–Staying In Love

Your marriage is the foundation of your family. When you first were married you only had each other to depend on. You did not have distractions or children pulling your attention away from the time that you spent together. As your family as grown and your careers have become busier it may be more difficult to find time to strengthen your relationship. It is important to take time to stay in love. One simple way to stay in love with each other is to spend time together, just being together. Do not talk about the kids, or your complaints about … Continue reading →