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When a Marriage Looks Fine but Is Quietly Destroying You Sometimes the marriage that looks “fine” from the outside is slowly crushing the person living inside it. Not because they are merely unhappy. Not because marriage is hard. But because secrecy, chronic fear,...
Scorecard for Premarital Articles from Focus on the Family Are you a pastor, parent, or friend wondering whether certain Focus on the Family articles are wise premarital reading? This page is designed to help you answer that question. Experts recommend that premarital...
Scorecard for Marriage Ministry Articles from Focus on the Family How Focus on the Family handles abuse, separation, and divorce Which articles help abuse victims—and which make safety harder Are you a pastor, parent, or friend wondering whether certain Focus on the...
Getting to Safety Is Biblical When a Marriage Becomes Harmful Almost every time I say, “Safety is biblical,” someone pushes back and brings up one of the 8 standard objections. So let’s walk through them carefully. First, let’s be clear: I am not talking about...
Tim Challies Tells Christians to Stay in Bad Marriages. That Is Dangerous Counsel. Summary: A critique of the January 2026 article To Those Who Married Poorly, including a comparison of Tim Challies’s advice with Jesus’ response to harm and bondage in Scripture. I...
Thousands of Pleas for Help Every week, thousands of people reach out to Focus on the Family, many “experiencing painful and often destructive situations… even incidents of spousal and child abuse,” according to their non-profit disclosures. What Abuse Victims Are...
Can the Innocent Spouse Remarry? What Jesus Meant in Matthew 19 and Mark 10 Why Dr. David Instone-Brewer believes Jesus condemned invalid divorce—not every remarriage. Many Christians can accept that Scripture allows divorce for serious covenant-breaking—adultery,...
New Stepparent? Build Relationship First, Discipline Second If you are a new stepparent, it is very easy to feel pressure to “step up” and act like a full parent right away. But Dr. Patricia Papernow, in Surviving and Thriving in Stepfamily Relationships, gives very...
Jesus Gave a Command Against Breaking a Marriage through Marriage-Endangering Sin Not a Statement of Impossibility of Divorce When Jesus said, "let no man separate" he was not saying a marriage can never end in divorce. In Matthew 19:6, the Greek is μὴ χωριζέτω—“let...