Laura's Strengthening Marriage Blog

Criticism is a poison that sours relationships. When things aren’t going well in a marriage, that tends to be the time we are most likely to throw every complaint we’ve got at our spouse when instead it’s encouragement and a search for what’s good that is more likely to affect positive changes in behavior. It’s funny how we mistakenly think we can berate and belittle our spouses into behaving better.

It seems to be the universal longing out there for the other person to change. “If only they would do this…” “If only they would change that…” “If only they…” the list goes on!
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“And They Were Not Ashamed” Softcover Book only $12! (reg $17.95)

We’ve put together an incredible special offer because we’re serious about strengthening marriages intimately! For a limited time, the softcover book “And They Were Not Ashamed — Strengthening Marriage through Sexual Fulfillment” will be just $12. Yes, you read that right…$12. (Regular price is $17.95.) Read the rest of this entry »

Bless his heart, my youngest son recently told me that he thought I was nicer when I was first married. (Now how would he know, since he wasn’t even born yet?) Apparently he came to this conclusion from watching our wedding video.

My first thought was, “Well, smarty pants, that’s what happens when you have kids. They turn perfectly good adults into ogres!”

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Welcome to our “Open Forum 1″ discussion page! This has been the place (up until June 29, 2009) to post your questions and comments and have an open dialogue about subjects related to marriage, sex, intimacy and parenting. To create new discussion posts please visit our Open Forum 2 discussion page.

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I know from your many personal emails and the conversations we’ve had at various events that there is an army of intelligent and intuitive people who have great insights and are seeking to strengthen their marriages intimately. I hope you will consider yourself a valuable resource in this forum as you share your questions and comments.

Please continue to be attentive to the tone of your posts, so that we can maintain an atmosphere of reverence and respect for the sanctity of sexuality in marriage. I will try to respond as often as I can, given my full plate as a graduate student, but I especially hope you will step up and share your insights as well. This is the place to build a community of people who want to learn and share how to strengthen marriages and families!

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