Can faith alone sustain a marriage? Love Forever, the newest YOUCAT publication, tackles this question and hundreds more with honesty, warmth, and global perspective.

The willingness to forgive, to let go of resentment and choose love despite the failures of the other, is a crucial factor in all long-lasting marriages. It’s also vital if you want your marriage to be even the slightest bit joyful.

The power of forgiveness can bring even the most broken marriage back to life. One spouse willing to take the first step is sometimes enough.  

Almost everyone agrees that communication — good communication — is essential to successful relationships. But what constitutes ‘good’ communication?

Being ‘open to life’ is a posture of open hands before God, our Lord and Father in Heaven. It’s a disposition of heart that says: Everything we have is Your gift, O Lord – may we welcome Your children and love them as You do.

Prayer doesn't change God — it changes you. Discover why prayers sometimes seem unanswered, and how opening your heart to grace transforms both you and your marriage.

Fur babies: substitute child, family asset or living therapy doll? In this blog, we discuss some different views on the rise of the Fur Baby culture.

This Lent, one couple explores how fasting, prayer and generosity can strengthen both faith and marriage—offering practical ways for spouses to grow closer to God and each other together.

Romantic excitement may spark a relationship, but lasting love is built through intention, curiosity and devotion—sustained by mystery, deep commitment, and habits that keep romance alive through every season.

Marriage isn’t sustained by luck, but by daily, intentional choices rooted in faith. Together with purpose, couples move beyond chance toward sacramental love that endures, deepens, and flourishes.

Attentiveness and discipline are keys to listening well. When we take the time to listen to our spouse, we strengthen our relationship like nothing else.

Loneliness differs from simple solitude, carrying real emotional and physical costs—especially for the elderly. Yet faith, family, and community offer hope, purpose, and lasting companionship in life’s later years.

We all know the phrase “happily ever after,” but real marriage often looks very different from the fairy tale. What if our expectations of marriage are shaping our experience more than we realise?

Small, intentional rituals can transform ordinary routines into meaningful couple time. Rituals that resonate with our natural habits and desires, and nurture our relationship, provide a rhythm that makes our couple time a regular and positive activity without being a straitjacket.

We chase happiness through success and stuff, yet lasting joy grows elsewhere. Discover why gratitude—not entitlement—nourishes the soul and transforms marriages, families, and everyday life.

At the heart of genuine generosity is personal relationship. In an age of loneliness, by allowing people to encounter our real – and messy – lives, we create true belonging.

What to do with the Honey-Do List standoff, where a spouse (e.g. wife) has a list of expected tasks for her husband to complete? Often, the Honey-Do List turns a home into a battle ground of competing needs — something neither spouse wants.

A gentle call to reclaim our attention from digital distractions, restore presence in our homes, and make room for deeper relationships with device-free time.

Each week, or more often if you like, make a record of one positive in your marriage or family life. It might be a lovely family celebration, a romantic evening, a spiritual encounter or a memorable nature moment together. It’s a bit like creating a gratitude time capsule.

Success in marriage can be as simple as looking for the right things. If we believe a person is kind and thoughtful, we’ll more readily notice their kind and thoughtful acts.