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What keeps a marriage well is not the big gestures. It is knowing each other, turning towards each other in ordinary moments, staying regulated when it gets hot, and repairing quickly when it goes wrong. Most of the practices here take under five minutes.
Narrowed down
5 practicesTheme · Shared spiritual life
How long you have · A minute
When · Any ordinary day
Encourage one thing your spouse wants to try, and tell them you have got their back.
Go, I am here if it wobbles. A secure base is what lets someone venture out bravely.
In one decision this week, ask what is best for us, not only what is best for me.
The small choices reveal the we. Let one lean toward the partnership over the self.
Keep the smallest thing you said you would do for your spouse today.
The call, the errand, the small promise. Trust is built from tiny kept words.
Speak about the future today as we, not I, in one thing you mention to your spouse.
When we are older, the home we are making. Language that assumes a shared road ahead.
Pray for them, by name, for one thing they are quietly carrying.
To ask God for the very thing that weighs on them is one of the most intimate acts of love.