Guest post by Mary at Healthy Christian Home    Do you remember the fun of getting dressed up and putting on makeup before a date?   Talking on the phone to your significant other for hours? Being excited about mundane activities like getting groceries or standing in line in the cafeteria, simply because you were together? When you’re dating and newly married, everything feels exciting. But inevitably, over the years this excitement begins to dwindle and is replaced with a feeling of familiarity.   This isn’t necessarily a bad thing since it gives us a sense of security and steadiness in our relationship. But, it can tempt us to feel discontent as we look longingly at younger couples. It feels like a bad joke that after a few years of marriage, just learn more...

Guest post by Lisa Yvonne at Graceful Abandon.   I sat next to the man I'd been married to for nearly two decades, loading Netflix yet again.   As I watched the red letters grow on the screen before our viewing history popped up, I wondered how we'd become that couple... ...that couple who equated date night with staring blindly at the screen instead of into each other's eyes. ...that couple who was so tired from living that they didn't have the energy to do anything extra to keep their marriage alive. ...that couple who had grown so comfortable with one another that they no longer enjoyed the slow simmer of anticipation leading up to being able to spend an evening together.   And that's when it hit me: we needed to shake things up! It was time learn more...

Do you have any big plans the first week of February? If not, you do now because there's a FREE Online Christian Marriage conference happening February 4th - 12th that I think will be really helpful and encouraging for you! Read on to learn more...   *This post contains affiliate links, which means if you make a purchase, I may make a small commission at no additional cost to you. This helps cover the many costs of running this site and allows me to help provide for my growing family. Thank you!     Announcing: The Fulfilling Your Vows Virtual Christian Marriage Summit   The Fulfilling Your Vows Virtual Christian Marriage Summit is a 100% free online conference designed to help Christian couples create amazing, fulfilling Godly marriages in learn more...

Guest post by Gina of GinaMPoirier.com “We’re like two ships passing in the night…” It’s a phrase I hear surprisingly often when couples are talking about their interactions with one another. In other words, you coexist around each other. When it comes down to it, there’s not much space or even desire for intimacy. You're not "in the mood." Does it describe your marriage?   It’s easy to coexist when you life is full, whether with babies and sleep deprivation or older kids and their accompanying activity schedules. You and your spouse might even make a pretty good team. But what about not too far down the road (it’s really not), when your kids are grown, and it’s just you and your man, night after night? The divorce rate for empty nesters has been rising learn more...

Sex is bad, and should be avoided at all costs. Or at least, that's the message I got growing up. Not from my parents, mind you, but from the church I grew up in. (Just one of many lies Christian women believe about sex I picked up along the way) As teenagers, we were expected to keep clear of the boys so we wouldn't be tempted (or tempt them!), and I still remember the all-girl's overnighter I went to with my best friend where we wrote love letters to our future husbands, promising we'd save ourselves just for them. After all, no one wants a girl that's too "loose." At least, none of the good Christian guys would anyways. That's just in poor taste.   It all sounded good in theory. Yes, Christian women (and men) should be modest (though I'd argue that our learn more...