FamilyLife is supporting the UK National Marriage Week this May. It’s an absolutely brilliant opportunity to get people thinking about their marriage and how they can be investing into it. Michaela Hyde, the project director, wrote: “It may surprise you to know that a far more common cause for divorce is couples drifting apart rather […]
Let me introduce you to Rosie and Guy. Childhood sweethearts, they were married five and a half years ago. They live in Newcastle where Rosie is a doctor and Guy is a town planner. They both love the outdoors and any opportunity to keep exploring the Lake District. They love their church family and have […]
Every relationship has times when we feel on top of the world, there’s a close connection and lots of fun and laughter. Love is flourishing. Every relationship also has times when we feel distant, frustrated, angry perhaps, and all the fun seems to have leaked out. Imagine there’s a love tank with a ‘fuel gauge’ […]
“The media tells us that everyone is having sex all the time but in fact we’re having less sex, less often and enjoying it less.” Matt Walmsley was one of the guest speakers at FamilyLife’s latest Vision & Equipping event which this year was looking at the topic: Sex …the BIG questions. He presented some […]
Do you ever think about your relationship as if it were a muscle? That you can actually stretch it and grow it? Stretch it and grow it to be bigger and stronger than it was before? I think sometimes we forget that we actually need to build upon our relationship just like we need to […]
Christmas is brilliant! But it can be hard work. Here are my top five tips for surviving Christmas! Don’t get sucked in by the adverts We all love a John Lewis or M&S advert, and although we like to think we are immune to their hard-hitting subliminal messages, we’re not. Get that thought ‘But […]
Sex. It’s a tricky subject isn’t it? It’s one of those topics we find hard to talk about even with close friends, let alone engaging with what others or our culture is saying about it. FamilyLife’s Vision and Equipping event: Sex …the BIG questions will help us think through this challenging topic and equip us […]
How would you feel about coming to A Day Together? What would motivate you to come? We know (because people tell us afterwards) that many couples come because they want to invest in their relationship, make it stronger, help a marriage last a lifetime… Some couples come because they’re facing a challenge or are struggling. […]
“There is a hunger stirring for healthy relationships. To see renewing of minds and transformation take place is so exciting! The confidence in couples is growing and a number of them are going on to share what revelations they have received. The ripple effect is real!” This ripple effect started when Mark & Odette Clayton […]
In 2013 we cycled from Land’s End to John O’Groats, in 2016 from London to Paris, and in 2019 FamilyLife cycling will be going again. Next year from 24-28 August we’ll be cycling some 300 or so miles from Canterbury to York (C2Y). As before we will be cycling to raise money for Toucan; the […]
