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More great insights for a happy marriage! LDS Daily A daily dose of what matters most Home   »   Home & Family   »   10 Ways to Create Greater Emotional Vulnerability in Your Marriage 10 Ways to Create Greater Emotional Vulnerability in Your Marriage Aleah Ingram  November 13, 2017 Home & Family Marriage may be ordained of God, but that doesn’t make it easy. While couples strive to experience a bit of celestial glory in this life, it is abundantly clear that marriage is often messy and hard. One of the best ways to get through the messy and hard together is to have a vulnerable marriage. What is vulnerability? When you are vulnerable, you are exposed and honest. You take the risk of being hurt. Vulnerability is essential to building relationships that last forever. Here are ten ways you can create greater emotional vulnerability in your marriage. Remember You Are Worthy Vulnerability can only be achieved when you lear...

This article may save your marriage!  It is very wise, and I wish I had read something like this early on in my marriage.  We had a large family, and the first 4 were very close in age.  Money and time were taken up with raising those precious children.  Our marriage lasted 60 + years before my dear Wayne passed away on February 21, 2016, but we could have enhanced it with some ideas listed below.  I hope it helps someone! 4 Ways to Keep the Magic Alive in Marriage by Merrilee Boyack  | Jul. 29, 2017 Makes You Think President Kimball counseled, "Many couples permit their marriages to become stale and their love to grow cold like old bread or worn-out jokes or cold gravy. . . . These people will do well to re-evaluate, to renew their courting, to express their affection, to acknowledge kindness, and to increase their consideration so their marriage again can become beautiful, sweet, and growing." His co...

This article has much wisdom!  We need to be vigilant always, and faithful to our spouse! The Accidental Road to Infidelity By Wallace Goddard  · October 4, 2016 To sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please  CLICK HERE The following is part 13 of a series from the book,  Drawing Heaven into Your Marriage .  To see the previous section,  click here . Satan is subtle. And we are all vulnerable. A good friend taught me a lot about the subtle process that Satan uses. She is an earnest, married Latter-day Saint. She caught me at a social gathering to tell me of a great friendship she had developed with a man in her ward. She and he enjoyed great discussions about the gospel. Sometimes he called her from work. Occasionally they met downtown for lunch. He bought her little gifts. She told me how much she enjoyed her companionship with the man. I was worried. Then she told me how good the man was with children . . . and...

This lovely article helps us understand true love, which lasts after the "honeymoon is over" stage.  It has great ideas! Elder Robbins: How to Build a Love That Lasts Forever by Elder Lynn G. Robbins, Adapted from his book "Love Is a Choice"  | Feb. 05, 2016 Can one choose to love, or is love something you fall into? Is agency involved, or is love something that just happens to you? If love is something you fall in, how can you act rather than be acted upon? Romantic movies today would have you believe that love is governed by some uncontrollable, ungovernable force—like fate or serendipity. But this simply isn’t reality. Falling in and out of love is no more real than Cupid or Prince Charming. While the expression “to fall in love” is a beautiful idiom, there are inherent risks involved in using the verb fall because it implies that love is accidental or involuntary, with no choice involved. This mentality can also l...

This is a wonderful article on how to have a successful marriage, where you both show unselfishness in your relationship.  From Meridian Magazine. Finding Joy in Godly Sacrifice By Wallace Goddard  · May 8, 2016 The following is part 6 of a series from the book,  Drawing Heaven into Your Marriage .  To see the previous sections,  click here . Heavenly sacrifice Sacrifice is a heaven-anointed principle. Brigham Young challenged us to think differently about the sacrifices that God requires. I have heard a great many tell about what they have suffered for Christ’s sake. I am happy to say I never had occasion to. I have enjoyed a great deal, but  so far as suffering goes I have compared it a great many times . . . to a man wearing an old, worn‑out, tattered and dirty coat, and somebody comes along and gives him one that is new, whole and beautiful . This is the comparison I draw when I think of what I have suffered for t...