A good marriage doesn't happen by accident and that's the heartbeat of Commitment 2 in Paul David Tripp's book Marriage: 6 Gospel Commitments Every Couple Needs to Make. This is topic of discussion on Episode 112 of the Marriage Puzzle Podcast. If you missed episode 111 where we introduced this book series, go back and listen first — this builds on it. But here's the short version: we coincidentally started reading the same book without ever talking about it, and it's turned

We just started reading a book, and the funny part is, we started the same book coincidentally. Thomas found it on Audible during his commute. Juli was already three chapters in. Neither of us told the other — we just both happened to pick up Marriage: 6 Gospel Commitments Every Couple Needs to Make by Paul David Tripp at the exact same time. We're calling it a coincidence. We also kind of think it wasn't. We loved it enough that we've decided to spend the next several episod

If you caught Episode 106 of Marriage Puzzle, you know we cracked open a topic most couples whisper about but rarely talk through out loud: pornography, solo intimacy, and where the line actually sits inside a Christian marriage. This is Part 2 — three more of your questions, answered as honestly as we know how. (If you missed either episode. Listen here.) We're not writing this as experts looking down at anyone. We're writing it as two people who've had these exact conversat

Few topics stir up more tension — and more silence — in a marriage than pornography and solo intimacy. Is it cheating? Is it harmless? Is it different for men than it is for women? These are the questions couples whisper about but rarely say out loud, and they deserve honest, unfiltered answers instead of the awkward silence most marriages default to. Here's where we land on it, and why. (Check out episode 105 of the Marriage Puzzle Podcast on this topic here.) Is Pornography