More accurately, bells were ringing! This past Saturday, our second son married his sweetheart and best friend. As parents, we're overjoyed to see their joy as they start their new life together.

This young couple was prepared for marriage in ways we ourselves were not when we married 27 years ago. Our son and his wife learned to communicate about everything by being open, honest, and receptive. They both have also had a huge advantage over many new couples by having parents with a great marriage who openly talked about marriage with its issues and challenges.

Our son and daughter-in-law went on their honeymoon and left a card behind for us to open after they were gone. The card was a personal "thank you" for the marriage modeling our son had seen growing up in our family.

We are grateful that the energy, time, and effort we've invested in making our marriage better has not been just for our benefit; it's also been for our children, and all our readers at The Intimate Couple.

We are so excited to be able to offer another resource for couples to develop intimacy! Intimacy 101: A Primer simply and clearly explains how true intimacy is under attack in our culture, and how we can develop it in our relationships. Discerning couples, serious about building their dream marriages, need to understand how intimacy can be undermined –and, even more importantly—how it can be developed!

Intimacy 101: A Primer also provides the reader with 60 different ways to build spiritual, emotional, intellectual, and sexual intimacy into your relationship.

The 7 Day Sex Challenge: take this mini-course and strengthen the 6 building blocks of intimacy! The truth and power of these 6 components are able to change your marriage! The biblical basis of each part of this course is accompanied by suggestions in journaling, face-to-face communication and script reading. This is a life-changer, a great way to add sizzle to your marriage!

Real Questions and Honest Answers, Volume 1: is our free e-Book (just ask for it!) that records real life questions we’ve been asked on our site, accompanied with biblical, practical answers. Our readers find that they can identify with so many of the issues and questions that have come in. This eBook provides the answers to the questions you’ve always been too afraid to ask!

Intimacy: A Primer: Intimacy’s four dimensions: sexual, intellectual, spiritual, and emotional are explained fully—with ideas on how to increase connection in each of these areas when you purchase Intimacy 101.

Stephen Covey, award winning author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People uses the following illustration in his ground-breaking book.

Suppose you were to come upon someone in the woods working feverishly to saw down a tree.

“What are you doing?” You ask.

“Can’t you see?” comes the impatient reply. “I’m sawing down a tree.”

“You look exhausted!” you exclaim. “How long have you been at it?”

“Over five hours,” he returns, “and I’m beat! This is hard work.”

“Well why don’t you take a break for a few minutes and sharpen that saw?” you inquire. “I’m sure it would go a lot faster.”

“I don’t have time to sharpen the saw,” the man says emphatically. “I’m too busy sawing!”

In marriage, renewal and improvement in our relationship, is sharpening the saw!