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Learn about how maintaining friendship in marriage can help your relationship.

How Infidelity Creeps into Marriage — and How to Protect Against It

Look up to these married saints if you're a newlywed.

Married Saints for Newlyweds To Look Up To

Learn about meta-emotions and how they can help improve your marriage.

How Meta-Emotions Can Escalate Conflict in Your Marriage

Read "To the Man Who Marries My Best Friend", a best friend poem.

“To the Man Who Marries My Best Friend”

Learn with this article what to do if you're in an unhappy marriage.

How to Get Through A Rough Patch in Your Marriage

Are you and your partner total opposites? Here's how to "make it work".

5 Tips For Loving a Partner Who’s the Opposite of You

Learn how to rekindle a marriage with these tips.

Is Your Marriage Missing a Spark? Here’s How to Rekindle the Flame

Read to learn about the Gottmans' Four Horsemen of marriage conflict and how to address each one.

How to Make Conflict Constructive for Your Marriage

Find out what habits you can have as a newlywed for a successful marriage.

5 Habits for Newlyweds to Build a Strong Marriage

Learn how to have difficult conversations with your spouse by following this advice.

How to Make Conflict Productive (not Destructive) in Your Marriage

Learn how the Gottmans' research taught me how to save my marriage.

How the Gottmans’ Research Saved Our Marriage

Turn to these saints when you're bored in marriage.

Saints for the Ordinary Times of a Marriage

Who were Sts. Louis and Zélie Martin? Listen to this Spotify playlist that celebrates their marriage.

Sts. Louis and Zélie Martin Spotify Playlist | #GrottoMusic

Learn how to build a strong marriage as a child of divorce with these suggestions.

Building a Strong Marriage as a Child of Divorce

Read this reflective narrative about why love is a choice.

Discovering True Love After the Wedding

Preparing for marriage isn't just about your wedding day — it's a lifelong investment.

How to Prepare for Marriage — Not Just a Wedding

Read about these marriage lessons this couple learned in their five years of marriage.

5 Lessons Learned in 5 Years of Marriage

Talking about sex with your spouse may seem odd, but it's important to open up about your desires for physical intimacy.

Ways to Talk About Physical Intimacy with Your Spouse

Why is chastity important? This author learned a few life lessons throughout his dating years and marriage; he shares them here.

What We Might Be Missing When We Think About Chastity

Read what Pope Francis had to say about same-sex couples.

What Did the Pope Say About Gay Marriage? An Explainer

Getting an annulment may seem difficult as you're separating from your spouse, but it doesn't have to be. Here's what to know.

What to Know About Getting an Annulment after Divorce

Have a healthy marriage during the pandemic by reading these tips that turned out to be lessons for this author.

How to Nurture Your Marriage Through a Pandemic

What is marriage all about? This author makes the argument that it's not all about the couple.

Marriage is About More than Just the Couple

"Am I ready to get engaged?" Here are 10 signs that show you may not be ready.

10 Signs You Are Not Ready to Get Engaged

This newlywed shares her #1 tip for how to improve your marriage.

A Newlywed’s #1 Tip for a Strong Marriage

8 Saints You’ll Want Interceding for Your Love Life

8 Saints You’ll Want Interceding for Your Love Life

Wives share how they answered the question "Is he the one?" before they were married.

Wives Reveal How They Knew He Was ‘The One’

Grotto shares and celebrates love with this Valentine's Day video.

Grotto Celebrates Love

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A Husband’s Prayers for Marriage

Read these 3 questions for couples that will transform your relationship.

3 Questions That Will Transform Your Relationship

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What the First Year of Marriage is Really Like

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5 Guys Reveal How They Knew She Was ‘The One’

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Why Date Nights are Important After You’re Married

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5 Questions We Asked on Our First Wedding Anniversary

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Does the Six-Second Kiss Challenge Really Work?

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How to Keep Communication Alive in Marriage

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3 Questions to Ask Before Getting Married

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The Best Groom’s Speech Ever

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The Best Marriage Advice I’ve Ever Received

Husband and wife business partners run a tackle shop together, combining their passions into a business.

Husband and Wife Combine Passions to Build a Business

Read these 5 things guys should know about marriage, from fellow married guys!

5 Things I Wish My Guy Friends Knew About Marriage

Here's how this newlywed couple has learned to compromise in marriage, especially between maximizer and satisficer decision-making tendencies.

What Our First Year of Marriage Taught Us About Compromise

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Find out the benefits of improv class for people looking to become more vulnerable and unafraid to fail.

Improv Taught Me to Embrace the Fail

Find out why using humor in the classroom is an effective strategy to keep students engaged.

How Humor Can Help You Learn

Watch how Christian comedian Ellis Aych connects with God in his work.

Using Comedy to Showcase Life’s Beauty

Read this reflective narrative about Camp John Marc, a place for kids with chronic illnesses and disabilities, and the joy in this special space.

Joy That Refuses To Be Eclipsed

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It’s More Important than Ever to Engage in Politics

Practice these morning stretches to start your day intentionally.

Start Your Day With These Yoga Postures

Watch how Aram's improv comedy class instills confidence and creativity in the Chicago community.

Creative Magic Behind Chicago’s Improv Comedy

Want to know how to do stand-up comedy as a hobby? Find out how to overcome your nerves and even grow as a person.

How and Why to Pursue Comedy as a Hobby

Find out how using humor to cope can help you see laughter as a promise and source of hope.

The Promise of “One Day, You’ll Laugh About This”

Stock your closet up with these French fashion staples.

5 French Clothing Staples for a Très Chic Look