Love: Better with Age

The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.

The Materials of Intimacy

Every struggle we have that could be used as an excuse to separate or divorce is the very material God wants us to use to create intimacy in our marriage. ...

Doing It All Over Again

At a senior citizens' dinner, the group president recognized a couple that had recently celebrated their fifty-sixth wedding anniversary. The husband ...

The First Family Squabbles

Think of all the squabbles Adam and Eve must have had in the course of their nine hundred years. Eve would say, "You ate the apple," and Adam ...

Advice from Ogden Nash

To keep your marriage brimming,

With love in the loving cup,

Whenever you're wrong admit it,

Whenever you're right, shut up.

Marriages Require Maintenance

Even if marriages are made in heaven, man has to be responsible for the maintenance.

Marriage Myth

Myth: If two people are in love, their differences are unimportant.

Reality: If differences are dismissed or evaded, each person's right to be different ...

Someone in Your Corner

I'll be sashaying along through life, feeling pretty cocky, when something will jolt me back into a sense of my neediness--my need for my husband. ...

Benefits of Marriage

In this age, when we run from reliance on others and celebrate our own (ultimately futile) autonomy, it's nice to sometimes say, "I'm sad. ...

Someone to Watch over Me

Shortly after my daughter's wedding, I turned happily to the groom's mother and said, "It's such a relief to know Devri has someone to take care of her ...