What is Commitment?

A few years ago, we were giving a talk on chastity to a group of young people and some of them challenged us, saying that “sex before marriage was ok if you were in a committed relationship”. So we quizzed them about what defined a “committed relationship’. Universally, their answer was a measure of duration;…

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Time Out for Couples

Does Your Marriage Need a Time-Out? Danielle Bean talks about the value of time apart…for the purpose of being of better together. | Catholic Match | Read more here I will never forget the morning, many years ago, when I was very pregnant (and okay, maybe just a little hormonal), when my husband Dan and…

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Puppy Love

You Fall In Love with the Front End of the Puppy Scott Stanley talks about commitment | Read more from his blog: here There are a lot of ways to explain why commitment is so important in lasting love—especially in marriage. This is my favorite. Think about puppy love. Many people understand what it is…

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Empathetic Listening

Ron & Kathy Feher Interview

You can’t be a good communicator without being a superlative listener. Ron and Kathy Feher discuss how couples can learn to listen like a professional and enhance their connection.

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How a Confidant can Help a SOS Marriage

Be There for a Friend’s Relationship Crisis, But Don’t Give Advice By ELIZABETH BERNSTEIN | Updated Feb. 9, 2015 | Wall Street Journal | Full Article: here Sooner or later, someone in the depths of a marital or relationship problem will want to talk about what’s going on and possibly to ask for advice. Being there for…

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Finding God in Community

Ron Rolheiser, OMI | Full article: here God is not, first of all, a formula, a dogma, a creedal statement, or a metaphysics that demands our assent. God is a flow of living relationships, a trinity, a family of life that we can enter, taste, breathe within, and let flow through us. “God is love,” scripture says,…

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