All marriage articles
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OpinionIs it ok to pray for the best sex life?
’Sex should be joyful, meaningful, and satisfying (emotionally, spiritually and physically). But, only Christ’s way allows the best sexual experience,’ says Megan Hugo.
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OpinionMarriage is not the only pathway to reduced loneliness
‘The American Family Survey suggests that while marriage plays a significant role in combating loneliness and achieving life satisfaction, it is not the sole factor. In fact, church attendance is another key means to tackling loneliness, and this applies to all Christian women, whether married or single,’ says Ann-Louise Graham.
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OpinionRemember that your clergy partners need support during divorce
Broken Rites is an interdenominational group offering mutual support and information to divorced and separated spouses and partners of clergy and recognised ministers. Julie Robinson shares how the group helped her in her time of need.
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OpinionDid you know sex can be illegal within marriage?
‘Reproductive coercion is a form of gender-based violence, it can take place both outside of and within married relationships and as a form of domestic abuse it affects Christian women at a similar rate to non-Christian women,’ says Sally Hope.
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OpinionGREAT SEXPECTATIONS: My husband is having an affair
In our fortnightly column ‘Great Sexpectations’ we answer your questions on sex, faith and intimacy. Drop us an email on womanalive@premier.org.uk and ask us anything. Here, Dr Kathrine McAleese answers a reader whose husband is being unfaithful.
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OpinionGREAT SEXPECTATIONS: What is the purpose of sex toys in a relationship and would it be sinful for my husband and I to use them?
In our fortnightly column ‘Great Sexpectations’ we answer your questions on sex, faith and intimacy. Drop us an email on womanalive@premier.org.uk and ask us anything. Here, Salomé Criddle responds to a reader who wants to know if it is ok to use sex toys in marriage.
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Opinion‘I say ‘yes’ to marriage, but ‘no’ to being smug about it’
‘Stop with the superglue – spend as much time as you can apart! Just think how much more you’ll have to talk to each other about if you unstick yourselves at parties! The journey home is your date night; the party is a celebration of our lives in community,’ says Rachel Allcock as she gives advice to married couples this Marriage Week, 7-14 February.
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Article‘In the run up to our wedding, we were in a holy war’
Sharing her own personal story with disarming honesty, Hope Bonarcher is urgently praying for Christian marriages
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ArticleDoes the Church view marriage as the pinnacle of success for women?
Dr Belle Tindall says it’s time for the Church to stop alienating women who are not in families
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ArticleLet’s stop viewing marriage through rose-tinted glasses
Veronica Zundel believes that Christian marriage has become an idol for today’s Church
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ArticleChristian marriage is important for the Church
Kate Orson highlights how marriage is part of God’s original design, but believes we’ve become far too obsessed by it
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OpinionGREAT SEXPECTATIONS: I feel insecure in my marriage
In our fortnightly column ‘Great Sexpectations’ we answer your questions on sex, faith and intimacy. Drop us an email on womanalive@premier.org.uk and ask us anything. Here, Claire Musters responds to a reader who doesn’t like the attention her husband gives other women.
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OpinionWhy I believe marriage reflects God’s ultimate design
‘For Christian women, understanding the sacred nature of marriage intimacy can transform their perspective on relationships,’ says Jan Coleman as she gives six reasons why she believes marriage is a powerful testimony of God’s design for love and intimacy.
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OpinionGREAT SEXPECTATIONS: I think I am asexual
In our fortnightly column ‘Great Sexpectations’ we answer your questions on sex, faith and intimacy. Drop us an email on womanalive@premier.org.uk and ask us anything. Here, Marcia Dixon answers someone who thinks they might be asexual.
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Article‘I found freedom in submission’
Growing up feminist, Kate Orson was initially disgusted by Ephesians 5. But she says she has learned to trust that God’s way is best
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OpinionI wrote a book on waiting on God for my husband….and this is what happened next
Kelsey Rygh took an honest and vulnerable look at her behaviour in relationships, and realised something that had stopped her finding her now fiance.
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ArticleGwyneth Paltrow’s former nursery nurse, Rachel Waddilove, left Bibles for the children in her care
As a nanny to the stars, Rachel Waddilove supported many celebrity and royal families with a keen sense of her own faith, but she also knew the pain of a difficult marriage and divorce at home
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OpinionGREAT SEXPECTATIONS: Fourteen years after marrying as a virgin, I have never had an orgasm
In our fortnightly column ‘Great Sexpectations’ we answer your questions on sex, faith and intimacy. Drop us an email on womanalive@premier.org.uk and ask us anything. Here, nurse and psychosexual therapist Emma Waring answers someone who needs help with sexual intimacy with her husband.
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OpinionAre unhappy marriages a myth?
Woman Alive’s deputy editor, Jemimah Wright, looks at the findings from a new survey from The Marriage Foundation.
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OpinionMiranda Hart’s marriage news has a message of hope for single Christian women who want the same
With the launch of her memoir ‘I Haven’t Been Entirely Honest With You’, Miranda Hart reveals she got married in secret this summer. Jemimah Wright celebrates this announcement with some encouragement for others…
