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What Makes a Good Marriage? The 3 Ingredients that Matter

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Sep 6, 2019 | Marriage

What actually makes a good marriage? What traits do good marriages share? I got thinking about this, and could easily rhyme off close to 20 criteria for a good marriage–things like “you laugh together”, or “you forgive quickly”, or...

Are You Too Good at Keeping Quiet? Why Your Marriage Needs You to Speak Up

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Mar 22, 2019 | Emotional Connection

Sometimes our marriages need us to speak up! Kestia Gustave is a long time reader and wonderful blogger from Pure Couples, and she shared this blog post with me recently. I thought it was great, and so I asked if I could run it today. The point? If you want real...

3 Important (Yet Simple) Things You’re Forgetting in Your Marriage

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Sep 7, 2017 | Emotional Connection

More often than not, success in marriage comes down to the little things. The simple things. The things that are all too easily overlooked! Leah Heffner from Life Around the Coffee Cup writes such great, accessible stuff on marriage, and today she joins us with this...

Can You Have a Good Marriage if You Have a Rotten Relationship with Your Father?

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Apr 5, 2017 | Marriage

How can you develop healthy relationships with the opposite sex BEFORE you get married? Our relationships with men in our family of origin–fathers, grandfathers, brothers, uncles–plays such a strong role in how strong our marriages will be later. I had...

Wifey Wednesday: The ONE Thing You Can Do To Improve Your Marriage

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jan 15, 2014 | Marriage, Sexual Intimacy

It’s Wednesday, which means it’s time to talk to marriage! I’ll introduce a topic, and then you all can link up your own marriage posts in the linky below. Today we’re going to tackle the ONE Thing you can do to improve your marriage. I...

The 99% and the 1% with Marriage

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Dec 6, 2011 | Marriage, Resolving Conflict

Lately there’s been so much in the news about the 99% and the 1%, and the story seems to go like this: the 1% are lucky, and it’s not fair. They don’t work very hard but they have a ton of money, and they should share it. What if that’s...