Read Time: 24 secsCouples have fights about all sorts of stuff.However, more times than not, the fight is not even about the topic at hand.The fight is about preserving competence and and connection.Men want to feel competent.Women want to feel conne...

Read Time: 1 min, 26 secsThere's a poetic verse in the King James Version of the bible that I want you to think about today: Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, and look well to thy herds. (Proverbs 27:23).I hear you saying, Kevin, 21st...

Read Time: 52 secondsI'm sitting at Pep Boys as I write this message.Three or four other customers have come in since I've been here.While I don't know them nor their story, I do know one thing about them: they're having car issues, and they don't wa...

Read Time: 12 secondsWhat are you teaching your children about marriage?Teaching includes what you say and do.And, it's worth noting that when it comes to kids, more is caught than taught.In other words, what you model in your marriage has the potent...

Read Time: 57 secsAs soon as I sent today's message, I looked in my inbox and saw this reply from yesterday's email:I am partially quarantined due to my exposure every day as a public high school teacher in a COVID environment where all masks are vol...

If you're reading this email because someone forwarded it to you, I encourage you to subscribe so you'll get the emails hot off the press.Read Time: 2 minsHappy Saturday!I received some good feedback yesterday from the message about kissingHere's som...

Read time: 58 secsIf you were born after 1990, the song "Your kiss is on my list" likely foreign to you.Today, it's a setup for an important question: Is your spouse's kiss on your list?Researchers suggest that kissing is the first thing to disappear...

Read time: 1 min, 45 secsYesterday I wrote about the reality that we cannot control everything.I included four powerful insights found in an email Amy sent.I'd like to take that thought a step further today. There are two camps when it comes to...

Read Time: 1 min, 40 secsOver the past few years, and especially this summer, the phrase "I Can't Breathe" has been associated with the deaths of Eric Garner and George Floyd.Could it be that your spouse is speaking that phrase to you due to you bein...

Read time: 1 min, 10 secsKJ, one of the spouses participating in the challenge sent this in:I have to work on the word love in my marriage its hard. When your spouse is on drugs been off and on this has torn our family and been leaving in out ou...