Marriage & Keeping Intimacy
Love doesn’t fade—it just needs attention. This section is for couples who feel the spark slipping and want to reconnect. We explore relationship intimacy tips, emotional closeness, and how to reignite the bond that brought you together in the first place—because soul-deep love is still worth fighting for.
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Sustain a Marriage With Forgiveness
I read an article recently called “Why We Need Moments of Mad Thinking.” In it, the author contends, “We banish a great many thoughts from our minds on the grounds that they are, as we put it, ‘mad’. Some of them evidently are: too mean, flawed, absurd or petty to deserve further exploration. But it’s one of the tragedies of our thinking lives that, amidst the detritus of dismissed thoughts, there are invariably a great many that could have been of high value, if only we had dared to examine them further, if only we hadn’t been so scared of their less conventional and more speculative dimensions, if only we…
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Sweet Words of Thanks to Your Love: Heartfelt Messages You Can Make Your Own
When you want to say sweet words of thanks to your love, sometimes your heart knows exactly what you feel but your mouth can’t quite find the right sentence. I get it. Gratitude is powerful, personal, and honestly… awkward to put into words. But those small, sincere thank‑yous are relationship‑shaping gold. Here’s how they work in real life — and a few heartfelt examples you can borrow and make completely your own. When you share sweet words of thanks to your love, something shifts in the relationship — and the research proves it. Why Sweet Words of Thanks Matter in Love Sara Algoe, an associate professor of social psychology at…
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Time Stand Still
Have you ever been in a season of life that’s so tough that you just want every day to pass quickly? Or, the place that you’re in is so busy that your life feels like it’s on autopilot? We’ve all been in one or both of these places in life. We’re rushing, rushing, rushing. Missing out on so much. And that’s just not fair. Life is beautiful. It’s meant to be savored – ups, downs, and in-betweens. We should want time to stand still. One of the seasons of my life that I hoped time would pass quickly was when we were trying to have children. I focused my thoughts…
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Wild Abandon
I dance to the Nancy Sinatra record in the living room of my aunt’s house. I have no clue what this song is about, but I love it! My cousin Barbie and I stomp around the room, me in my cowboy boots. She laughs as we sing and stomp. I spin circles in the space between the chair and the brown couch until I fall over. When the record stops, Barbie starts it again. And I stomp. And dance with wild abandon. These boots are made for walkin’ And that’s just what they’ll do One of these days, these boots are gonna walk all over you Ya I like the…
