“Engagement”

In this week's blog post, Pam Farrel, relationship specialist and bestselling author, gives effective and practical tips to help you build upon the life-changing Biblical hope that will revolutionize your relationship!

How do you prepare for a healthy, vibrant relationship with your spouse before getting married? In this week's video, Willa Williams explains the significant impact that premarital counseling and mentoring can have on your relationship, and why it's so important to seek out this special training before marriage.

Read Dr. Chris Grace's blog to discover three key differences between healthy and unhealthy relationships, and 10 things you can do when a good relationship starts to go bad.

We are constantly fed ideals and images of what our lives should look like. Popular (and even Christian) culture has romanticized what it looks like when two become one. In today's blog, FamilyLife marriage and family advocate, wife, mother of five, and writer, Marilette Sanchez addresses this disillusionment and shares her story of navigating when romance meets reality. 

How do you deal with jealousy when your partner has best friends of the opposite sex?

How do you know when you’re ready to move from dating to engagement?

If you're getting too intimate in your relationship, how do you stop?

These questions and more are addressed in today's podcast when Dr. Chris and Alisa Grace dive deep into topics of jealousy and insecurity, maturity for advancing relationships, and crossing boundaries in relationships. Their supportive insight guides couples to push aside their physical intmacy and keep God at the center of their relationship.

No ring by spring? Not to worry. In today's blog, author Debra Fileta describes how to cope when life doesn't go according to our own plans, and how we can take comfort that God's plan is perfectly lined up and 1000 times more creative than what we could plan ourselves.

Dear CMR:

What are some specific questions that my girlfriend and I should talk about to see if we should get married?

Signed, 

Ready to Get Hitched?

Dear CMR,

I have been dating my girlfriend for five years, and I’m getting ready to propose. She has taken out loans to pay for grad school, but I have a nest egg I can use to pay them off now. If we are getting married in 1.5 years, should I pay off her school loan now or wait until we are married?

Signed,

Avoiding Debt