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This blog, Make Some Wonderful focuses on improving marriage relationships. No matter how far away you feel from Wonderful in your marriage, this blog can help you get it back.

Life is simply better when marriage is good, when the connection is “on.” No matter the hurt or disappointment you have experienced, you are closer than you think to Wonderful in your marriage. Even if you doubt it today, you and your spouse have what it takes. I’m in this with you. Let’s go Make Some Wonderful.

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5 Affirmations Every Mom Should Hear From Their Husband Every Day. (Especially on Mother’s Day)

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5 Affirmations Every Mom Should Hear From Their Husband Every Day. (Especially on Mother’s Day)

Photo by Debbie Brown brownstudios.com Moms are the best. They supply the world with generous unconditional love. Moms deserve to know the impact of their work because the pressure of mothering can be heavy at times. Mommy guilt is the feeling moms get when they feel inadequate in their efforts to fulfill all the expectations in life. In those moments they worry about their priorities and feel they should have done something different. Husbands, you can’t prevent all of these

4 Marriage Lessons from Sour Milk

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4 Marriage Lessons from Sour Milk

I never feel more apologetic than when I clean the back seat of the car. In those moments I apologize to my car for having children. Last summer our car smelled. Bad. Upon further investigation we discovered a long hidden sippy cup lodged under the seat. It had been filled with milk and given to one of our sons and at some point in the chaos of child transport it was forgotten. Until the smell. The first day the smell arrived it smelled like something had died along the road,

Mending Your Relationship with God and Your Spouse

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Mending Your Relationship with God and Your Spouse

There once was a man who had two sons. The younger son said to his father “give me my inheritance now.” So the father gave him his inheritance early and he took off with the money to a distant land. He soon squandered all of his money and found himself destitute and desperate. He thought to himself “even my father’s hired men have food to eat and here I am starving. I will go to my father and tell him I am no longer worthy to be his son and beg him to be one of his hired men.

5 Refreshing Spring Cleaning Tips for Your Marriage

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5 Refreshing Spring Cleaning Tips for Your Marriage

Winter has left my lawn scraggly and brown; its cold winds piled leaves on the front step. The only green is the one struggling daffodil yet to bloom and the small weeds coming up around it. Spring is here and it’s time for a good spring cleaning. I actually enjoy working in my yard in the springtime. I like seeing the grass turn green and the the small buds on the trees transform into leaves. Small weeds poke up but they are easily plucked out in the moist spring mornings. T

The 5 Affirmations Every Wife Should Hear From Their Husband Every Day

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The 5 Affirmations Every Wife Should Hear From Their Husband Every Day

It may feel complicated and confusing trying to understand your wife and her emotional needs. Daily affirmations will give her the smile you’ve been looking for. Don’t worry, you have what it takes; affirmations are simply nice words you know to be true. Share these five affirmations with your wife everyday for a wonderful marriage. You are a blessing. Tell her out loud you are thankful for her. Gratitude is critical for great connection. This affirmation is especially great

A Hot Valentine’s Day

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A Hot Valentine’s Day

As a marriage blogger I’m always on the lookout for interesting and inspiring articles to share. Turns out I’m not the only one with awesome marriage articles and often I get great ideas for my own blog. I’m also learning the power of great titles. A great headline gives an idea of what the article is about while providing enough intrigue to want to read it. I recently came across an article from Huffington Post with the headline: 11 Things That Instantly Make A Man Hot. I th

Improve Your Marriage with Woohoo! Power

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Improve Your Marriage with Woohoo! Power

“Hey dad look! They have candy!” My eyes followed my 6 year old’s pointed finger and I saw it too. It was halftime of a local high school basketball game and there WAS candy on the basketball floor. To raise money for the basketball team they put candy around the court and for a donation, participants had one shot to make a basket from that place to win the candy. From that moment on my son had the basketball for candy game on his mind and began serious negotiations to partic

Making Time for Now

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Making Time for Now

Unfortunately, the last couple of months have been a season of loss. We lost three family members in two months. Loss has a way of pushing the pause button and reordering priorities as memories and emotions flood. Ecclesiastes chapter three is a popular scripture at funerals. I guess we use it as permission to grieve loss although it’s about much more. There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens: a time to be born and a time to die, a t

7 Relationship Hacks to Make the Most of Your Time Together

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7 Relationship Hacks to Make the Most of Your Time Together

Copyright: / 123RF Stock Photo We’re all busy. Marriage can be especially difficult when you have no time together. The couples with the best relationships find a way to make the most of the time they have together. Time is a valuable resource. Make the most of it. Look at each other. What you are looking at has your attention. Communication works better with eye contact. When you look at your spouse you can better understand their body language. Looking at your phone does n

From Average to Exceptional

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From Average to Exceptional

The Seattle Seahawks football team is back on top. They recently secured the number one seed in the NFC assuring home field advantage throughout the playoffs. They are the defending Super Bowl Champions but earlier this year they didn’t look like champions. Their record early in the season was 3-3. They struggled and looked average, disappointing coming off their dominating Super Bowl win. As a Seahawks fan, I was concerned. Then they went on a 9-1 run winning their last 6 ga

The Light Has Come

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The Light Has Come

The church is dark and still. One small candle is lit. From the front of the church the light spreads from one person to their neighbor as the candles receive the light. Slowly the light spreads like clouds parting to reveal the stars beyond. The flickering light changes the room from darkness to the warm glow of wonder and awe. I assist my son to light his candle. He is excited to hold fire, reverence and excitement mix as he watches his flame. Nearby, I see the faces of my

Healing Relationship Sore Spots

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Healing Relationship Sore Spots

Copyright: ximagination / 123RF Stock Photo In my very first blog post on Make Some Wonderful (now nearly one year ago) I wrote about biting my cheek and how in marriage our emotional “sore spots” are difficult to avoid. Click here to read the original post, “Ouch, That Hurts.” “Sore spots” are the areas of our life most sensitive to criticism, usually due to past experiences of deep emotional hurt. Touching these sensitive spots can lead to an ugly fight or end one by goin

Free Fashion Tip for Couples: Extreme Matching

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Free Fashion Tip for Couples: Extreme Matching

Via http://www.pleated-jeans.com I was cruising Twitter and I came across the unbelievable story of Mr. and Mrs. Fetherstone. Every day for the last 35 years they have worn matching clothes. Click here to read their story and to see more pictures of their outfits. I’m speechless. Thirty-five years of matching clothes every day? Wow. For most couples, matching one or two times in 35 years would be embarrassing enough. I shake my head in unbelief but I admire them. They are hap

How to Know if You Need Counseling

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How to Know if You Need Counseling

Copyright: diego_cervo / 123RF Stock Photo Do you need counseling? That’s like asking a barber if you need a haircut. Of course I believe you need counseling, we all need a little counseling. The right counseling at the right time will make a tremendous impact on your life. Getting counseling is like seeing your medical doctor. When you are injured physically, it’s important to see a doctor. They are the expert you need to aid in your healing. When you are injured emotionally

5 Survival Tips for Parenting Defiant Young Children

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5 Survival Tips for Parenting Defiant Young Children

Copyright: ninamalyna / 123RF Stock Photo The longer I parent the more I realize: parenting goes fine, until it doesn’t. My wife and I have two boys, ages five and three. Life with young boys is a loud experience. The sounds of plastic sword fights, chasing each other with Nerf™ dart guns, and ninja “hei-yah” attacks often match the noise level of playoff football. Then silence. I search to find the source of the dangerous silence and find them in the pantry with a newly open

Why Rejection is Good

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Why Rejection is Good

Copyright: malyugin / 123RF Stock Photo Rejection is not always bad. It could greatly benefit your marriage. Rejection is mandatory for a great marriage. Rejection is even included in some traditional wedding vows. “Do you take [Your Spouse’s Name] to be your wedded wife/husband to have and to hold from this day forward, rejecting all others remaining true to him/her as long as you both shall live?” Rejecting all others highlights the importance of exclusivity in marriage. Yo

Celebrate!

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Celebrate!

Copyright: subbotina / 123RF Stock Photo Ever have one of those weeks that’s just like all the others? It wasn’t horrible, just unremarkable and kinda blah. The work-a-day world tends to take the color and excitement of life and dull it up a bit. We have all had ho hum days in our marriage, when the joy of relationship has withered. Good news, your drudgery can change in one easy step. You can do it anytime, it doesn’t cost anything, it’s fun, and it will change everything. C

In Sickness

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In Sickness

Copyright: antonbrand / 123RF Stock Photo It will happen. The time comes in all marriages, often unexpected and always inconvenient. The “in sickness” part of marriage will inevitably invade and put your happy day in the toilet. This week I got sick. It was the stomach bug type of sick and it rendered me useless. The fever made summer feel like the arctic even in my warm bed and extreme energy reserves were needed just to shuffle to the bathroom. I’ll spare you the other unat

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