CURIOUS ABOUT WHAT CONTRIBUTES TO MARITAL SATISFACTION?
Read the report from a quantitative survey conducted by the CHR in February 2024 in Northwest Arkansas. Learn about the factors that healthy marriages exhibit, the marriage resources that healthy couples are accessing, and where the current needs for marital support lie.
EMOTION WHEEL
The Emotion Wheel helps you put precise words to how you’re feeling—especially when “fine,” “stressed,” or “upset” just doesn’t cut it. Breaking emotions into clear, relatable categories builds emotional awareness, improves communication, and reduces misunderstandings with yourself and others. When you can name an emotion accurately, you’re better equipped to manage it, respond thoughtfully, and make choices that actually support your well-being. In short, the Emotion Wheel turns vague feelings into clarity, insight, and emotional confidence.
DATE NIGHT CONVERSATION STARTERS
Conversation starters are fun, easy prompts designed to spark meaningful, flirty, and laughter-filled conversations—helping you connect, break the ice, and keep date night flowing naturally.
RECOMMENDED MARRIAGE RESOURCES
Explore our wide range of recommended resources on the topic of marriage! This is for anyone
who's been married for 40 years to newly engaged couples!
COUPLES THAT WORK
By: Jennifer Petriglieri
The majority of couples today are dual-career couples. As anyone who's part of such a relationship knows, this presents big challenges: trying to raise kids and achieve career goals while caring for and supporting your partner can seem impossible. Yet most advice for dual-career couples fails, framing the challenges as a zero-sum game in which one partner’s gain is the other's loss and solutions feel like sacrifices or unsatisfactory trade-offs.
EIGHT DATES
By: Gottman & Gottman, & Abrams & Abrams
Navigating the challenges of long-term commitment takes effort—and it just got simpler, with this empowering, step-by-step guide to communicating about the things that matter most to you and your partner. Drawing on forty years of research from their world-famous Love Lab, Dr. John Gottman and Dr. Julie Schwartz Gottman invite couples on eight fun, easy, and profoundly rewarding dates, each one focused on a make-or-break issue: trust, conflict, sex, money, family, adventure, spirituality, and dreams.
FAMILIES WHERE GRACE IS IN PLACE
BY: Jeff VanVonderen
Now updated with discussion guides for families and small groups, Families Where Grace Is in Place continues to minister to couples and parents nearly twenty years after it was first published. Using his professional and personal experience, VanVonderen shows readers how to nurture God-honoring relationships free of manipulation, legalism, and shame.
THE GOOD GIRL'S GUIDE TO GREAT SEX
By: Sheila Wray Gregoire
Are you wondering if there's more to your sex life than the status quo? Or maybe you have questions about your upcoming marriage that aren't exactly appropriate for the rehearsal dinner? This edition of The Good Girl's Guide to Great Sex from tell-it-like-it-is blogger and speaker Sheila Wray Gregoire has been completely updated and expanded to include new research from surveys of more than twenty-five thousand people.
THE GOOD GUY'S GUIDE TO GREAT SEX
By: Sheila Wray Gregoire and Dr. Keith Gregoire
If you ever wonder, Is this all there is to sex? or I wish I knew how to help my wife enjoy this more, you'll appreciate this straightforward, helpful, and faith-based advice on how to have a better sex life.
Based on groundbreaking surveys of more than twenty-five thousand people, this highly practical, research-based book shows guys how to rock their wife's world.
THE GREAT SEX RESCUE
By: Sheila Wray Gregoire
Based on a groundbreaking in-depth survey of over twenty thousand women, The Great Sex Rescue pulls back the curtain on what is happening in Christian bedrooms and exposes the problematic evangelical teachings that wreck sex for so many couples--while pointing couples to what they should have been told all along.
THE MARRIAGE YOU WANT
By: Sheila Wray Gregoire and Dr. Keith Gregoire
Based on the findings of their meticulous research, Sheila Wray Gregoire and Dr. Keith Gregoire dispel the pervasive myths about what makes a happy marriage.
With enlightening stories, survey results, and practical tools, this book will help readers create a marriage they love.
THE MEANING OF MARRIAGE
By: Tim Keller
The Meaning of Marriage by Tim Keller explores marriage as a covenant rooted in sacrificial love, commitment, and God’s design rather than personal fulfillment alone. Drawing from biblical principles and real-life insights, Keller shows how marriage is meant to shape character, reflect the gospel, and foster lasting intimacy.
MUTUAL BY DESIGN
By: Beyer & Nelson
Marriage. It's been around for millennia, so what more can be said that hasn't already been said? Many books on Christian marriage have been written, but most assume that the Bible puts men in a leadership role, while women are to be submissive. But there's a better way. Not only is it healthier for families, but it's more faithful to the Bible. The Bible casts a vision of marriage where men and women co-lead and co-serve as equal partners. This book explores that vision.
PARTNERS IN MARRIAGE & MINISTRY
By: Ronald W. Pierce
Does the Bible prescribe gender roles for men and women? Are men uniquely called to exercise authority in marriage and church ministry? Is submission a one-way street, for women only? Or, has God created us—and called us—to live together in a partnership of yielding in love to each other? Partners in Marriage and Ministry addresses these frequently asked questions.
Without the usual argument and rhetoric of the current debate, Partners in Marriage and Ministry presents the biblical tenets of gender equality.
SACRED MARRIAGE
By: Gary Thomas
Sacred Marriage by Gary Thomas reframes marriage not just as a source of happiness but as a spiritual path that strengthens your relationship with God. It explores how the challenges and joys of marriage can deepen your faith and shape your character.
TOGETHER RECLAIMING CO-LEADERSHIP IN MARRIAGE
By: Tim & Ann Evans
God has different plans for marriage than you ever imagined. Join Tim & Anne Evans as they explore a revolutionary perspective of what marriage can be-by going back to the beginning. In Eden, a married couple was created to reflect and reveal the oneness and plurality in God's Trinitarian nature. A man and woman, both made in the image of God, and both given the procreation and dominion mandates. Together, naked and without shame, they enjoyed co-leadership.
