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Encourage Your Spouse and Your Family!Use Values to Support Fun Communication
Values play an important part in your communication with your spouse. If our attitude, like the values we live by, is under our control, why not pick fun ones?
Important or Urgent? Be Productive As a Family
Being productive in areas which are important – not only urgent – is imperative as a husband and wife leading a meaningful life. Read how you can do this…
Managing Change in Your Marriage – Keep Growing
Change in your marriage is good, right? It always brings room to grow… Here are some resources for your marriage after a change…
5 Ways to Improve the Depth of Your Marriage
Embracing depth as a differentiating value can help to significantly strengthen a marriage. Here are five ways to improve the depth in your marriage – and faith life.
What Good Books Can Do For Your Family
Books are a rich part of life – invest your time, reading with your family. Connections are made through the books you read. What’s your relationship with books?
Hands to Help in Thanksgiving
Our hands can be a joy. Holding those we love & work as worship to the Lord. What will you do with your hands to give thanks in this time of thanksgiving?
5 Autumn Dates to Stay Connected
The busy fall season is here – how are you going to stay connected with your spouse? Be deliberate and plan some dates. Here are 5 ideas to help you plan.
Encouragement in Action – The Tutu Project
The next time you believe life just is too heavy – too heartbreaking – too messed up… think of Bob. In his pink tutu. It’s encouragement in action!
Write a Letter for Date Night!
A date night idea to encourage others AND you and your spouse. It’s low-cost and focuses on what’s good in your life together, including a link to writing ideas.
Camaraderie – How To Be Close To Your Spouse and Encourage Each Other
The rewards of camaraderie in marriage are significant. You’ll enjoy the satisfaction of being part of a successful team, and have a lifelong friend.
16 Reasons a Date Night is the Best Choice
Date night is the best choice to encourage your spouse. Here are 16 reasons why your marriage needs a regular date night – it’s the best choice!
How to Lean on the Value of Trust in Your Marriage
The impact of incorporating the value of trust into your marriage will be greater than you ever imagined. Just consider carefully where you put your trust.
Gentleness – It’s the Strong Value Your Marriage Needs
Gentleness is made up of three aspects – and every healthy marriage needs these three. Couples, regardless of history or personality can enjoy gentleness. It’s not what you might expect…
Who is the ideal person to encourage your spouse?
YOU are the ideal person to encourage your spouse! (If not you, then who? ) And there are distinct benefits to encouragement – read to learn more…
Gratitude in Marriage
Saying thank you – expressing gratitude. When was the last time you said “thank you” to your spouse? Encouragement sometimes starts with words.
The Value of Respect in Marriage
In your marriage, do you respect your spouse? And if you do - how do you show it? The Value of Respect As a value, Respect has three powerful components: an attitude of admiration or esteem; courteous regard for others; and deference. These components aren't mutually...
Patient Love
Love is patient. No hurrying. No worrying. Just waiting. Tamping down the questions - smoothing out the concerns - holding fast in patience. Not every season is about action. [Tweet "Sometimes love is best shown - and given - by being patient."] Think of those bulbs...
Challenge Yourself To Try Something New – It’ll Make You A Keeper
It's a challenge: try something new - it'll make you a "keeper"! Everyday Robert and I are seeing couples enjoying life. They're no longer raising their children, and most are not working full time anymore, (or they could be on holidays) but they are exploring new...
Encourage Your Spouse To Be Healthy Today
How do you encourage your spouse - husband or wife - to be healthy? Health is a tricky topic. Being healthy in mind, body and spirit means something different to each person, yet being a husband and wife, and leading your life together, health is never a solo...
Now is the Best Time to Set Goals – 5 Resources
How can you encourage your spouse – or your spouse encourage you – if you you’re just drifting along? Reaching to achieve goals, is the perfect way to be encouraged – and encourage! And yes. You can, and should, set goals at every time in life. Here are 5 resources to set goals, because now is the best time to set goals in your marriage.
How to Choose Better Goals for This Time in Your Life
Even before a man and woman get married, they begin to set goals. Where will they live? What places will they visit together? How many kids will they have? How can they make a meaningful contribution to their community? Setting goals begins with lots of discussion,...
All the Possibilities Need a Plan
All the possibilities in life... need a plan ---> or they won't happen. (yeah. sorry.) It's easy to let "real life" meander - or dash - or fast forward, and find your dreams sinking into the muck of "wish I coulda" because time has passed too fast, and too far....
5 Ways to Set Goals Together in Marriage
So you want to set goals together? Where does this come from? We look for achievement in all aspects of life. Students strive to get good marks in college. Athletes work hard to win in sports. Professionals pursue advancement in their careers. What about achievement...
Intentional Growth in Your Marriage
Intentional growth in your marriage takes effort. (Welcome to Robert's readers from FergusonValues.com) However... Couples grow out of their relationships because they're not working on them together. <-- Tweet this! (That's a quote from a book I first read last...
Sharing 36 Questions
Questions and Conversations - asking questions and sharing thoughtfully creates intimacy between a couple. Last month I wrote about ways to create a conversation with your spouse. (You can read that post here.) That post had resources and links to questions. I'm still...
Bring Back Courtesy to Your Marriage
Through small courtesies, you show your spouse you value her/him. Bring back courtesy to marriage and connect with your spouse! Here are 30 ways…
Being Sincere – It Starts With YOU
The study of values is called Axiology. We discovered this description of what Robert does every day in a text book our daughter was studying. (It was satisfying to have a word to describe his passion!) What do values have to do with marriage? What do values have to...
Questions to Start a Conversation
Conversation dragging...? I was talking with a young woman about how her relationship was progressing when she mentioned something interesting. She said, "We run out of things to talk about." [Tweet "Not all of us are natural conversationalists. Here are some...
Positive Leadership in Your Family
Your attitude shapes your family. Spouse, kids, siblings, parents, and everybody else who is invested in your future, is influenced by your reaction to what life throws at you. The only option you have control over in any situation, is how you respond. What's your...
The Honeymoon Habit: Book Review
As I was working in the Niles Public Library for a few days, I saw this display: There were fiction books, and non-fiction. Christian focused, kid focused and memoirs. Most were self-published. One book had poems by a 12-year old, and another book was a history of...
Answers to Questions – Ongoing Learning on Making a HOME
No matter how old we are - or how many children, or years married, we all still have room to grow. (There are lots of areas in which I'm still learning... how about you?) Do you have questions on ... how to manage your time... ... how to make more healthy choices......
Tag! You’re it! Making the Most of the Moments
Some seasons in life are difficult. No question. No rebuttal. There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens: a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot, a time to kill and a time to heal, a time to...