Connecting with Your Partner

How do you connect with your spouse—or with anyone—at a heart level? Identify with them and show compassion. Seek to encourage. And lead them to the Lord.

Love is about patience, kindness, understanding, and caring for your spouse’s heart. When your spouse is able to feel that, the opposition will diminish.

In a successful marriage, both spouses must be able to give and receive love. You must learn to access your whole heart to love each other well.

These 3 biblical principles that guide us in all our relationships can also help us breathe life into our marriages. Are we speaking the truth in love?

Ask God if you are guilty of poisoning your marriage by placing a wrong emphasis on things, by being afraid to reveal who you really are, or by being unfaithful to your spouse.

Sometimes life is tough and difficult circumstances can take a toll on your marriage if you let them. What does God want you to do during those tough times?

If you’ve been conditioned not to ask for things in your marriage, making a request will seem like a huge risk. Risk asking anyway—and see what happens.

What is it that would delight your spouse’s heart? Bob recently hung up some patio lights for Roxann simply because she asked. And there’s something very sexy about that!

Marriage can get dull—especially during quarantine. Instead of accumulating boring, mindless minutes, look for ways to turn them into opportunities for fun!

Do you have recurring problems in your relationship that make you keep asking what we did wrong right here? Maybe you should be looking farther back for answers.