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  • stare time

The Gift of #StareTime

Just as financial capital gives us resources to invest and grow, relationship capital gives us emotional resources to draw upon when life gets challenging. Every moment of genuine connection, every shared laugh, every quiet “stare” builds up this reserve.  

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Defending Our Hearts

Is defensiveness crippling your relationship? Do you feel regularly on edge, reactive and punchy? While the intention of our instinctual reaction is to protect ourselves from harm, three things happen in a chronically defended state.

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Virtue in Action

We teach couples strategies and skills for navigating relationships more effectively. As important as these frameworks are, they are not the critical factor in avoiding divorce or building a successful marriage. Rather, the key appears to lie elsewhere, in the practice of virtues.

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How to Cultivate a Marriage That Will Help Your Child Succeed

There are a few well-researched, but often overlooked aspects to ensuring solid development in a child’s life. The first crucial component is the positive involvement of a father in the life of the child. The second is related to the marriage relationship between the father and mother.

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More Than “I’m Sorry”

Saying “sorry” is good, but it’s not usually enough to fully restore the relationship. Asking for forgiveness is entirely different. “Please forgive me” is a profoundly other-centred statement. It puts us in a position of vulnerability.

  • Get Married

Get Married: A Book By Brad Wilcox

By Brad Wilcox Drawing on the latest in social science as well as ancient wisdom, University of Virginia sociologist Brad Wilcox is dedicated to understanding and strengthening our most important institutions: marriage and family. https://youtu.be/TjIXY8qW5gM What's the recipe for happiness? If you listen to liberal elites or red pill influencers, you'd say it's making money, living for yourself, and staying single ...

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Going From Good To Better

Marital health is about more than minimising conflict. If we want to go from ‘good’ to ‘better’ we need to capitalise on the positives. Most marriage counselling and education focuses on conflict and incompatibility. It seeks to help couples find constructive ways of dealing with challenges in the relationship. It’s a ‘damage control’ approach that seeks to minimise the impact ...

UFC Promoter Dana White Shares His Failures and His Ultimate Test for Success

Dana White, famous UFC promoter, said, “Nothing comes easy. Success doesn't just drop on your lap. You have to go out and fight for it every day.” As the man said in the cartoon, “Them’s fighting words!” Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) is a full-contact fighting sport under the UFC banner in which all the fighting disciplines are allowed. I must ...

  • Knowing What To Love

Knowing What To Love

We can’t share with the other what we don’t know about ourselves. Genuine intimacy – the mutual sharing of our interior lives with the other – requires that we first have an intimate knowledge, and love, of ourselves.

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Kids vs Romance: Connecting with Your Bride

When kids come along, Dad and Mum need to be even more intentional about coming together, communicating, and strengthening their marriage. What you need is a plan. A plan for making time for romance even though you’re both a little tired and distracted.

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Attachment Style and Marriage

Our earliest experiences of love and care profoundly influence what we each bring into our marriage. Attachment Theory illuminates how. Thankfully, because of the enduring neuroplasticity of the brain, people with an insecure attachment style can develop a secure one.

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Together Again… For Stronger and Better

Contrary to popular belief, separation does not always end in divorce. Well supported, the process of separation can help a couple address their problems, reconcile and be together again stronger and better.

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Work Stress and Marriage

Stress is contagious. In this age of high expectations and long work hours, it’s easy for a man to bring his worries and frustrations home and spread them all over the household. What can we do?

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Marriage or Matrimony?

Couples who marry in the church, and not just at the church, have a very different idea of what marriage should be. Marriage, or Matrimony, for them is a covenant, a sacred promise made, not only to each other, but also to the Church.

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Three Tips for Trust

Relationships thrive when trust is strong. But how do we build it in the first instance, and then recover it if we’ve lost it? Here are three tips to help you build trust and hold on to it.

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What Will Your Child’s Marriage Look Like?

Have you ever thought about how your marriage looks to your children — or about how your attitudes toward marriage are influencing them? Your modelling influences your children’s perspectives and practices in their own marriages.

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Dancing in the Minefields

Do you ever feel like your marriage has become a minefield? Sometimes we get off track with our wives, and the smallest things can cause tension and separation. Too often, couples get caught up in the distractions of life and lose track of each other.

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Our Father-in-Awe

The tradition of asking a father for his blessing to marry his daughter reflects this human intuition of responsibility of care. As we welcome each child’s spouse into our family, we entrust them with our child’s care and commit to supporting them in this endeavour.

  • Love Song

My Ten Greatest Love Songs

Every married couple needs to grow in love, and listening to love songs is one way to strengthen your marriage. Here are my top ten greatest love songs!

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6 Scientific Facts About How Music Influences Intimacy

Just think: when listening to music together, your neurons work in unison with the neurons of another person, and for reasons that we do not yet fully understand, this process releases the hormone of happiness and love — oxytocin.

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Unplanned Childlessness

As we mark World Childless Week (16-24 September 2024), our question is this: Are our young people given all the information they need to make truly informed choices about their fertility management?

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