Relationship Blog
Rekindling Healthy Passion in Your Relationship
Maintaining passion in a long-term marriage can be challenging, but it’s essential for keeping the relationship strong and healthy. A lack of passion can lead to boredom, frustration, and disconnection, which can put a significant strain on your relationship. Fortunately, rekindling the passion in your marriage is possible with a little effort and commitment from both partners. In this blog post, we’ll explore several strategies for reigniting the spark and keeping the passion alive in your relationship.
Passionate Love, Sex, and Intimacy in Your Marriage
Often, sex talk gets overlooked because people may feel uncomfortable talking about sex, may not know how to talk about sex, or may fear that their partner will reject them if they say the “wrong” thing during a sex talk. Sex, love, and intimacy are three concepts that are intricately linked and can greatly benefit one's life when experienced in a healthy and meaningful way. From a biblical perspective, these three concepts can offer a great deal of insight and guidance on how to cultivate a fulfilling and joyful sexual, romantic, and intimate life in your marriage.
The Difference Between Compassionate Love and Passionate Love
Love is a complex emotion that can manifest in many different ways. In the Bible, two types of love are often discussed: compassionate love and passionate love. While both of these forms of love are important and valuable, they are distinct from one another in several ways. In this blog post, we will explore the differences between compassionate love and passionate love from a biblical viewpoint and how they can play a role in our lives as Christians.
7 Benefits of Premarital Coaching
Premarital coaching is a form of relationship education for couples who are looking for a proactive approach to building a strong and healthy relationship. It is designed to help couples build a strong foundation for their marriage and develop the skills and strategies necessary for a successful and fulfilling relationship. Premarital coaching typically involves working with a trained professional coach who helps couples identify and address any potential challenges and conflicts before they become major issues. The goal of premarital coaching is to provide couples with the tools and skills they need to build a strong and healthy marriage and ensure a positive and fulfilling future together.
Resentment in Your Relationship
Resentment in marriages and relationships, unfortunately, is more normal than we often want to admit or accept. It’s also one of the biggest relationship killers out there. Resentment is often built over time but can also occur quickly, depending on the situation or couple. It is possible to move past resentment in your relationship, but it will take time and consistent effort.
How to Rebuild Broken Trust and Honesty in Your Relationship
Broken or fractured trust and dishonesty in a relationship are incredibly hard to fix. So hard that many people don’t succeed in repairing it or even attempting to repair it. Some fractures may be easier and quicker to fix than others: for example, it’s easier to repair trust that was fractured from a missed phone call or date than it is to repair from an affair.
The important thing to remember when working through broken or fractured trust and dishonesty is that it can be repaired - if both partners want to make the repair and are willing to put in the necessary work. These types of repairs are not quick or simple, they take time, patience, and lots of open communication.
5 Ways to Build Trust + Honesty in Your Relationship
What is honesty and why is it important to happy and successful relationships? Why do we all want honest relationships but sometimes struggle with being honest ourselves?
Honesty is defined as “the quality or fact of being honest; uprightness and fairness. Truthfulness, sincerity, or frankness.” Transparency is another word that is now often associated with honesty. Being clear and open with your partner and loved ones in your life.
10 Ways to Show Affection in Your Relationship
Here are 10 ways to show affection to your partner AND 5 ways to show non-sexual affection to others in your life!
The Absence of Affection in Your Relationship
What a lack of affection looks and feels like, red flags about a lack of affection, the dangers of forced affection and 10 ways to bring healthy affection back into your relationship!
The Blessings of Love + Life
Loving Your Partner Through the Holiday Stress
