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Happily Ever After
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?
Habit Makers, Habit Breakers
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.
The Powerful Vocation of Making a Home
The art of householding and homemaking lies within everyone’s grasp, with a much wider-reaching impact than we might at first imagine.
2026 and the Path to Renewal
As 2026 begins, let’s keep up the positive momentum. Here are four New Year’s resolutions that can help keep the West on a path of renewal.
Gratitude: Superfood for Relationships
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.
Overcoming Relational Poverty in an Age of Loneliness
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.
10 Keys to a Great Marriage
Love is a very costly exercise, but it has great rewards and brings great joy. Having celebrated our 50th wedding anniversary, here are our 10 keys to having a great marriage.
The Honey-Do List Standoff
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.
These Are The Hands
Nathaniel Marsh reflects on 21.5 years of marriage, the beauty of shared hands and tender moments, and the enduring power of love inspired by family and faith.
Device-Free Quality Time
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.
Gratitude: Plant Now, Reap Later
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.
Why Fewer Young Women Value Marriage — and Why They Don’t Know What They’re Missing
This week, a shocking Pew Research graphic has been making the rounds on social media. It’s a chart showing how dramatically young women’s interest in marriage has fallen away over the past three decades.
Happy 50th Wedding Anniversary to Warwick and Alison!
Next Saturday, 29th November 2025, Dads4Kids fantastic founders Warwick and Alison Marsh celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary!
Practical Hope for Stepfathers: 6 Tips for Strong Blended Families
Stepfathers play a vital role in modern blended families, offering stability, guidance, and support. With patience, empathy, and thoughtful strategies, they can build trust, strengthen relationships, and foster lasting family harmony.
The Old Fashioned Way to Family Formation – Flirting Parties
In opening our homes to those of the next generation, we not only provide a safe place for them to meet; we also model the beauty of family and elements that form a good one, including faith, hard work, sacrifice, and love.
In Marriage, You Get What You Look For
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.
Echoes from Childhood
Parents are our first educators because we learn through them how relationships work, and that forms the foundation for our adult relationships. No matter how wonderful our families are, they’re all limited and wounded somehow – it’s part of the human condition. The reality is, we’re being formed from childhood for both good and for trouble.
When Mercy is Hard to Do
Every-day offences and deficits in our character make it necessary for every couple to practise mercy as a regular, even daily habit. When we fail to do this, minor upsets accumulate into overwhelming piles of resentment and shame that seem to be insurmountable.
Stevie Payne Finds Love
As recently reported by "The Daily Mail", Stevie Payne, the brother of champion Melbourne Cup jockey Michelle Payne, who also appears in the 2019 biopic film "Ride Like A Girl", has found love.
Charlie Kirk on Marriage and the High Cost of Love
Charlie Kirk’s insight into why men wear dark suits at their wedding was both provocative and profound, to say the least. Marriage is a process of death from which life usually springs in more ways than one. I often tell men it is a wonderful way to die.
Three Tools for Better Conflict
Every marriage has conflict. Two imperfect people sharing a home and dealing with all the pressures of modern life? It’s inevitable! But conflict doesn’t have to be destructive.
Married Mothers Are Happier
A report in The Atlantic found that, among female demographics, married mothers enjoy the highest levels of happiness, connection, and purpose — a finding that challenges the modern myth that marriage and motherhood are a burden for women.
Making the Connection…with Arguments
Rightly or wrongly, arguments happen. Whatever the trigger, according to author and therapist Sue Johnson, arguments between lovers are essentially a ‘protest against disconnection’. The subtext of every argument is a question: Do you care about me? Love me? Know me?
The Riskiest Place for Our Marriage
Awhile ago, a viral video clip came to our attention. In the video, a marriage counsellor is responding to the claim that 85% of affairs begin at work.
The Cohabitation Myth
Cohabitating couples can be very generous and loving, but it can never be a total and unconditional gift of self while it is understood as a temporary relationship.
