PILLOW TALK!

 In your marriage you will have disagreements! 

Is it okay if you are unable to reach a compromise and agree to disagree?

If you and your spouse can’t come to a resolution on a disagreement- you may need to better understand your spouses perspective. 

Would you be willing to switch sides and argue their point of view?

Intimacy in marriage is about more than sex.

How can you be more intimate with your spouse outside the sheets? 

Good communication is the key to intimacy in marriage.

Share with your spouse a sensual fantasy you’ve never before shared with them.

 Being a good listener is important in marriage but it is also a difficult skill to learn. 

What every day distractions prevent you from really listening to each other?

It’s important for spouse’s to actively listen to one another.

Can you restate your spouse’s opinion on the last subject you talked about?

Volunteering is a great activity that allows couples to bond and grow closer together. 

What ways can you volunteer as a couple in your community?

Kissing is the first thing you do as a married couple. 

Why is kissing important to your marriage?

Experts tell us that kissing bridges the spiritual with the body, the body with the soul.

Discuss the connection you feel when you kiss your spouse.

 Respect in marriage = Recognizing Each Spouse’s Personality Traits Experiences Character and Talents

What are the differences your spouse has that makes your marriage stronger? And which does your spouse have that causes conflict?

Respect in marriage is about being active. Which means each spouse actively values and appreciates the other every day! 

In what ways do you show each other appreciation on a daily basis?

How we were raised leaves a lasting imprint on who we are as people and as spouses.

What habits, traditions, communication styles, and ways of expressing emotion from your families do you each bring to your marriage? 

Family of origin is a gift that helps form each of us into the people we are and into the person we fell in love with. 

Question: What do you find unusual about your spouse’s family practices and traditions? And what do you find inspiring? 

Celebrating your spouse daily helps them be their best self!

What is one positive thing your spouse does daily that builds you up?

Celebrating your spouse daily helps them be their best self!

What is one positive thing your spouse does daily that builds you up?

A Holy Marriage = racing to the Cross when stuff gets rough.

Discuss the tough times in your marriage when you’ve invited God into that brokenness?

Holiness in marriage involves spouses resurrecting their marriage after a difficult time.

Have you been able to offer graces to your spouse during difficult time? if not, why? 

 When marriage gets tough remember…you can’t return your spouse; marriage is a covenant not a contract. 

Discuss how your spouse has lived out their marriage covenant? 

Inviting God into your marriage is your super power! 

Discuss how God has helped your marriage leap a tall building, have super strength and become bullet proof?

October is National Infant Loss Awareness Month. Inviting each other into the heartache of grief keeps one another from suffering silently. Are you able to discuss openly and authentically your feeling of loss with your spouse?

Spouses handle grief differently and on their own timeline; because grief is personal and has no deadline. How do you each process loss? How can your spouse show up for you when you are grieving?

Couples who laugh together, last together!

Discuss how each of you bring humor to your marriage. What activities you do together that make you laugh? 

 Laughter is often the glue that helps you endure the messiness in marriage. 

Discuss how laughter played a key role in helping you through the tough times in your marriage? And has humor ever backfired and caused hurt feelings between you and your spouse?

Marriage vows are personal but not private!

How would the world describe how you live out your vows ?

Your wedding vows mean saying “I Do” every day!

What have your vows taught you since your wedding day?

This month is all about being thankful. Express your gratitude for your spouse with our 14 Day Gratitude Challenge!

How do you feel when your spouse expresses gratitude for you? What are your favorite ways they show gratitude?  

Gratitude in marriage helps couples remember why they fell in love in the first place.

Describe what feelings the Gratitude Challenge has rekindled in your marriage.

Couples who show gratitude in their marriage love more, have more fun and forgive more often. 

How has your perspective changed about each other and your marriage while doing the Gratitude Challenge?

Take part in our 14 Day Gratitude Challenge. Research shows that gratitude in marriage makes happy people; and happy people make happy marriages! 

What compliments does your spouse give you that make you smile and feel good about yourself?

The secret to keeping two lives beautifully blended is being THANKFUL for each other. 

On this Thanksgiving Day tell your spouse 3 things they’ve done in 2021, that you are thankful for and why?

 Take our 14 Day Gratitude Challenge. Spouses who feel grateful are more likely to express gratitude. 

In what new ways can you show your spouse gratitude? What things does your spouse do every day that you forget to say thank you for!

In Advent couples need to quiet the world’s noise and chaos and prepare together for Christ’s coming.

What activities will you do as a couple this Advent?

Slow down and swing into Advent by drowning out the Christmas frenzy together.

Celebrate Advent together by setting up your nativity in stages or by reading an Advent series. Which will you choose?

Most couples find the holiday season to be busy and chaotic. 

This Advent, how will you and your spouse slow down and create memories and celebrate traditions?

Advent helps couples increase their spiritual intimacy with God and with each other. 

So let’s talk: Discuss ways you and your spouse can come together this Advent in shared prayer time.

At the start of each year couples can refresh their marriages.

Discuss how to get closer, be more understanding and embrace more passion as a couple.