Do you ever hear the story of Mary and Martha from Luke’s Gospel (10:40-42) and wonder, “Really, Lord? Someone has to do the work!”

The daily diakonia of marriage

With your melancholic spouse, it may be helpful to establish a consistent practice of counting your blessings and expressing gratitude to God.

A sanguine is sometimes accused of wearing rose-colored glasses because they tend to see the positive in everything, and they dislike the negative.

Phlegmatics are loyal, supportive and rarely ostentatious. Solid, dependable and affable, they value family and home life.

They may win you over with their persuasive and intelligent conversation and their attentiveness and winning ways.

It is no secret that the characteristics that attract people to one another can eventually begin to annoy.

Self-knowledge helps spouses grow in virtue

The Liturgy of the Eucharist: where we encounter God’s self-giving love which deepens and gives shape to the marital relationship.

Listening as one to God’s word

Our deeper union with Christ strengthens the love within us and makes us more capable of loving and supporting each other.

A couple exchanging vows at their wedding Mass do not so much receive a sacrament as they become a sacrament.

We need marriage. So does our Church and our world.

When a couple consciously and daily lives their marriage as a sacrament, they open themselves up to a happiness both natural and supernatural.

Your tension is not about whether, but how much, help to give or, as you put it, it’s between “no matter what the cost” and “everything we reasonably can.”

The living space needs and preferences of a couple will naturally evolve over the course of their marriage and family life.

When you vowed at your wedding to remain faithful to one another “in sickness and in health,” the sickness part included that aching “soul sickness” of grief.

Let’s look first at your age difference and then at the pushback you’re getting from your family and friends.

Finding the right balance for children between family life and outside activities can be challenging.

She says: I don’t want him to be gone all the time.

When life doesn’t go according to plan, how can married couples be strong together in the face of adversity?

She says: We are so busy working from home it’s the only way to get anything done.

He says: We should tell our daughter.

Whether you should speak with your daughter depends upon her openness to listening.

She says: I’d love to help but it’s too much