Are you drawn in, repelled by or intrigued by the hype surrounding the release of the film version of best-selling book: Fifty Shades of Grey? I’ve been reading lots of commentary recently and I don’t like the finger wagging brigade. There is something inside me that wants to do the opposite when someone says: “don’t […]
It never ceases to amaze me how God can bring people together in the most amazing ways. Why am I surprised? The FamilyLife team were running A Day Together event for couples at All Souls, Langham Place, London recently and at the end of the day I found myself in deep conversation with a […]
Sounds like ridiculous psychobabble or perhaps an oblique reference to sexual relations doesn’t it? Actually I was inspired to use the term ‘conscious coupling’ by the Hollywood actress Gwyneth Paltrow and Coldplay singer Chris Martin who separated earlier this year explaining their decision as a conscious uncoupling. I’m not going to judge them because I have […]
Take four couples. One newlywed couple, two couples who have recently celebrated a quarter century together and an inbetweener couple married for fourteen years. Add some great materials i.e. FamilyLife’s Together group workbooks, a few glasses of wine and what do you have? A powerful recipe for strengthening togetherness, apparently. Our Together group recently celebrated the end of […]
Mike and Becca enjoyed taking part in a Together small group during the six months leading up to their wedding. Becca told us: “It was a great way to meet other couples and learn from them as there was a variety of ages and each couple was at a different stage of their marriage.” They […]
There’s a lot of advice around to improve our relationships. Boring isn’t it…all that self-improvement! Instead here are some GREAT ideas to help you develop habits that will really mess them up… in reverse order… #10. Don’t do more than the absolute MINIMUM Your mantra should be “I’ll do my bit if you do yours” […]
This year we are celebrating 10 years of strengthening marriages and families in the UK. At our gala dinner in January guests from across UK and Europe joined to celebrate the last 10 years of FamilyLife ministry in the UK. We were able to celebrate the thousands of couples who have benefitted over the last […]
