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#marriage #premarital #engaged #couples #coaching Hey! Are you getting ready to tie the knot? Congratulations, that's fantastic news! But before you start dreaming about your happily ever after, let's talk about something that could make your journey to the altar even smoother: premarital coaching. While many couples may believe that they don't need premarital coaching, it is an important step for those who want to build a solid and healthy relationship. Premarital coaching g

It can be difficult to figure out how to establish new traditions, let the parents down easily, and come to an agreement.

Meeting In The Middle For Marital Compromise It is common to have differences in opinion and want, you are of course two DIFFERENT people. When a couple is able to listen to one another and understand that each individuals wants, needs, and opinions are valid it helps to bring calm to the conversation. Once you have an understanding of each other and have validated one another, it is time to find a compromise that works for both parts of the couple. An example of meeting in t

Why is it that we put massive amounts of effort into dating someone we barely know? The person that we may or may not like anymore in a few months time? When couples begin dating they spend hours talking on the phone, flowers are bought, dates are planned, time is spent "looking ones best" and so much more and then.......... You are two years into a long term dating relationship or you are newly married and wondering what went wrong. You were so in love, you felt important an

Your wedding is one of the most memorable days of your life! The happiness, the excitement, the joy, and the wonder, but what about when everything goes wrong? It will still be one of your most memorable days but will you be able to look back on it with happiness, excitement, joy, and wonder? We have a 20-year-old daughter, and her best friend was getting married! We were so excited when we received the beautiful invitation in the mail! We were celebrating with this young cou

Everything is sexualized We live in a society where everything is sexualized. Movies, pop-stars, magazines, songs, TV shows, books, and the list could go on and on. We see and hear about sex everywhere we look, Christian or not. We don't even have to go looking for it. It is there staring us in the face whether we want it to be or not. So why then is it so hard to talk about within our marriages, friend groups or our churches? Sex within in marriages isn't something that shou

Do you remember being engaged and thinking, "we are going to get to see each other all the time when we are married! I can't wait." Then time passes by, careers come into the picture, kids come along, life is busy and stressful, and that safe space that you used to have in the arms of your spouse seems to have shrunk, and you don't quite fit like you used to. You sit down for a minute and look at your spouse, and for a brief moment, you realize that you don't quite know them

As promised, here is part two of the sex-drive blog post. If you missed it, go check out 7 Tips for the High Drive Spouse here. If you are in a marriage, it is typical for there to be a low-drive and a high-drive spouse. For those of you that are both high-drive, woot woot, lucky you, enjoy the ride! If you are my couple where both of you are low-drive, you will have to be intentional in finding that connection and forming that bond. It isn't impossible, and even if you don'

Ok husbands and wives this is for you. Do you ever find that you are in a place of disagreement about when the last time you were intimate was? I know right. . . it happens all the time! My friends and I are constantly having conversations over this same topic and the division that it can cause. The Difference Between the Low Drive and High Drive Spouse As the low drive spouse it is very realistic for a them to look at their spouse and say, “ What do you mean it’s been 5 days

Part 1 in a 2 part series for the high drive spouse and the low drive spouse. Part 1 is "How to Improve Sexual Intimacy in Your Marriage For the High Drive Spouse." Part 2 will be "How to Improve Sexual Intimacy in your Marriage For the Low Drive Spouse." Sex drives are a complicated thing. More often than not, in marriages, the spouses DO NOT have matching sex drives. Do you fight over sex? Argue over how long it's been since the last time? Do you want to ask your spouse for

At some point, all Christians find themselves in a place of doubt or struggling in their faith. To me, those two words go together; doubt and struggle. They can be used in either sequence too. Doubt leads to struggle, or a battle in life leads us to doubt Christ. Faith struggles. When you are sitting in this place, what do you do? Looking for all the biblical truths that you know is a significant first step. This helps to calm nerves and then think about what is causing the d

I LOVE HIM/HER I love __(name)__! Is that enough? Someone told me that love isn't enough. That there has to be more than that to make a marriage work. There has to be respect and compromise. There has to be mutual understandings and so much more. I just don't know if we have all of that. Have you heard people talk this way before? To me it seems to be the case more often than not. There needs to be a shift in this thinking. I want to challenge you to follow along with me for

Disclaimer: This title was originally posted on my old blog MyPennedHeart I've been married for 16 years and my husband and I are still...

Disclaimer: This post was originally posted on my old blog MyPennedHeart I can’t tell you how many times Dan and I have heard that we are...

Disclaimer: This post was originally posted on my old blog MyPennedHeart My Heart Was Beaming and Breaking Many Sundays ago now at church, our pastor was teaching about worship. Different forms of worship and postures in worship. It was beautiful and inspiring. I felt deeply connected to God as we sang worship songs and listened to recited poetry. Then there was a shift in me when our worship pastor shared a story about a veteran who had been in the process of getting ready t