After 20 years of marriage, Matt and Alecia Zoccoli, dear friends of Dads4Kids, posted a 1-minute video revealing what they learnt to keep their relationship healthy and strong. Enjoy!

Body language is indeed a powerful communicator. It’s even more powerful than verbal language. In fact, when it comes to matters of the heart, our body is more believable than our words.

When you begin your fatherhood journey, you know the world is forever different. Three critical truths – and implementing them – will pay off for the years to come.

Our family of origin makes leaving and cleaving complicated! When we marry, we each bring an inherited mental picture of what a spouse ‘should’ be. That makes things interesting...

When we capitalise on the positive events and good ideas, we lift each other and our marriage up. This enhances our relationship and builds marriage resiliency.

Emotional wounds often persist unnoticed beneath the surface. When we experience a similar incident, the old wound can be activated along with the new one, compounding our pain. But there is hope.

Positive thinking works. It really does. One of the most effective ways to deepen our bonding is to verbalise our gratitude to each other.

We’ve all heard marriage is a long-distance journey, but what happens when it feels like a marathon with no finish line?

Is your marriage more of a battlefield than the safe, peaceful harbour it is intended to be? Here are three top tips to stop that negative spiral of action and reaction.

Let’s go “fox hunting.” Catch these “little foxes” of strife, jealousy, anger, ambition, and division and watch your relationships instantly improve.

Communication has long been seen as the key to a healthy marriage. Modern experts call this wisdom into question, suggesting that it is not communication, but connection that is the key to lasting marital happiness.

The relationship will never work if both people are selfish and want to be served. When both people are selfless and serving, the relationship HAS TO WORK. Here are five areas that will bring new life to any and every marriage.

Is our current model of marriage the right one? Is it here to stay? Or will historians one day look back and wonder: What were those neurotic, romantic fools thinking?  

Decades of messy conversations have taught us that timing matters. Editing ourselves – and choosing the right moment – almost always leads to better listening, deeper understanding, and a stronger connection. 

In a time when the view of marriage has shifted from a lifelong vow with responsibilities and duties to a feelings-based contract, marriage can really seem devoid of worth. Yet this viewpoint is incorrect and even dangerous.

Research shows that before divorce, 72% of individuals reach out to family and friends. Here's how to respond effectively when a spouse or a couple seeks your help for a struggling marriage.

According to research from the Institute for Family Studies and the Wheatley Institute, there are four things which drastically increase the chance of a happy marriage, and as a result, greatly diminish the odds of divorce.

Thinking of our marriage as ‘sleeping with a different person every night’ is a fun but also powerful reminder that we need to both expect and look for change in each other, every day.

Our romantic memories are the fabric of our couple history. When we reconnect with these memories, we reinvigorate our love and emotional connection in the present and set a positive tone for our future together.

As C.S. Lewis wrote, don’t lock up your heart in a "coffin of your selfishness". Instead, love those closest to you with openness and vulnerability. Familial love like this might just be the closest one can get to Heaven on earth.