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Category Archives: Companionship

Podcast 012: Merging Busy Lives and Schedules

Merging Busy Lives and Schedules—How Do Two become One? Dr. Dave Currie along with Wayne & Mary Jane Dahl discuss the hurdles of overcoming selfishness and moving toward an others-centered empathy...

Marriage: Developing a Marriage Mission Statement

Marriage: Developing a Marriage Mission Statement Know Why You are Developing a Mission Statement as a Couple Life is about choices. When you intentionally make the right decisions, so many things...

Podcast 011: Growing Together Spiritually

Close to You—Exploring the Richness of Growing Together Spiritually Dr. Dave Currie along with Wayne & Mary Jane Dahl assist couples in appreciating and growing in the lifelong journey of spiritual...

Marriage: The Memorable Impact of Missions on Marriage

Dave: We are writing this from Guam, just a speck of an island in the middle of the South Pacific. Donalyn: We are finishing our 6th week on a South East...

Podcast 005: The Juggling Act—How to Successfully Balance Two Career Families

Dr. Dave Currie along with Wayne & Mary Jane Dahl, discuss topics relevant to your marriage and family. This episodes focuses on helping couples both anticipate and negotiate through the pressures...

Podcast 003: Do you Speak My Love Language?

Dr. Dave Currie along with Wayne & Mary Jane Dahl, discuss topics relevant to your marriage and family. This episodes focuses on helping couples overcome the relational disconnect and to increase...

Podcast 002: Are You Romantically Challenged?

Dr. Dave Currie along with Wayne & Mary Jane Dahl, discuss topics relevant to your marriage and family. Discussing the importance and the techniques of building better romance in marriage. Click...

Marital Prayer Part 1: What Happens When a Couple Prays Together?

Marital Prayer Part 1: What Happens When a Couple Prays Together? Praying together. It just sounds right. After all, shouldn’t couples that are supposedly seeking God be reaching out regularly as...

Marriage: Merging Grace—The Art of Two Becoming One

“For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.”                           Mark 10:8 Two becoming one....

Marriage: Building Lifelong Friendship with Your Spouse

Learning to Gel: Building Lifelong Friendship in your Marriage I grew up on “Jell-O”. It’s that rather inexpensive gelatin that comes in a variety of flavors and colors. Looking back, Jell-O...

Marriage: Respecting the Laws of Relational Equilibrium

Is Your Marriage Teetering in the Balance? Respecting the Laws of Relational Equilibrium One fond childhood memory surrounds the pleasure of mastering the teeter-totter. It’s the playground apparatus that involves two...

Parenting: Adjusting to an Empty Nest

Q & A with Dr. Dave and Donalyn Currie Q: "After 25 years of our world revolving around our kids, the last one is about to move out. Do you have...

Marriage: The Merging of Lives in Marriage

How Do Two Become One in Scheduling? Our first fight was on the very first weekend home after our honeymoon. It was all about scheduling. I had made an assumption –...

Parenting: Creating Memorable Family Vacations

Q & A with Dr. Dave and Donalyn Currie   Some of my best childhood memories are from our family vacations, but now that I have a family of my own,...

Marriage: Companionship—The Third Pillar of an Amazing Marriage

Companionship—The Third Pillar of an Amazing Marriage The Pleasure of Friendship We’ve all heard it said that you want to marry your best friend. It's an assumption that we all make....