"What a Wife Wants"

Readers of Country Woman magazine were asked: What gifts would you like from your sweetheart for Valentine's Day? Several of the replies are below: ...

Most Married Man Dies Alone

Glynn Wolfe died alone in Los Angeles at the age of 88. No one came to claim his body; the city paid to have him buried in an unmarked grave. This is ...

Marital Stress Inhibits Healing

Researchers at Ohio State University showed that marital arguments can have a significant effect on the physical health of each spouse.

The study looked ...

Bonhoeffer on Love and Marriage

Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote:

Marriage is more than your love for each other. It has a higher dignity and power, for it is God's holy ordinance, through ...

Man Mourns His Predecessor's Death

The story is told of a man who visited a cemetery to leave flowers at the grave of his dearly departed mother. He couldn't help but notice that, a few ...

Couple Divided Over New Car

A couple had been fighting over the purchase of a new car for weeks. He wanted a new truck. She wanted a fast sports car so she could zip through traffic ...

Miscommunication in Writing

My farmer husband Larry isn't a good bachelor. So whenever I'm gone over noon, I set the table and leave dinner in the oven. That was the case ...

Looking Back at Marriage

When one looks back upon it, marriage isn't so bad as when one looks forward to it.

The Secret of True Harmony

It is only when a husband and wife pray together before God that they find the secret of true harmony: that the difference in their temperaments, their ...

Hoping Your Spouse Reads Minds

When Christian musician Michael Card got married in 1982, he and Susan expected smooth sailing. But it wasn't long before they started running into ...