Marriage is tough. It’s work. My wife Jeanette and I married 17 years ago, and I wish more people would’ve told us back then how challenging marriage can be, but it’s a challenge we’ve accepted.
We’ve worked at it.
We’ve had our ups and downs, but:
We’ve grown closer together.
We have a strong marriage because we’ve had access to the right resources.
Our world needs more marriages to be strong. And then stronger.
The stronger our marriages are, the better our society will be. Think about it. Stronger marriages mean fewer divorces. Stronger marriages mean better sex among husbands and wives, which leads to longer-lasting bonds. Stronger marriages mean temptations to turn to porn will lessen.
Stronger marriages lead to a stronger culture.
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But here’s one thing I know:
I don’t have a formula for a perfect marriage.
Even though I’ve heard from a lot of marriage experts, I wouldn’t say I am one.
But now that I know some experts, I—and our team—want to share their wisdom with as many people as possible. We are compiling their work in one comprehensive resource: a new website called StrongerMarriages.com, and the response has been huge.
Before we even advertised the site, we had over 1.3 million page views in the first two weeks alone!
People want this. I know it’s going to help them.
I know it’s going to help you. It’s going to help people you know.
We believe in marriage. We believe it takes hard work to make it work, but we believe couples can last 10, 15, 20, 30, 50 years—and beyond. We want to give couples help where they need it, and we believe StrongerMarriages is going to be that help.
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At StrongerMarriages.com, we talk about important things you want to know about, like conflict and communication, sex and kids, spiritual growth and emotional growth, what to expect before you get married and what you can expect after years of being married
We’re so excited about the impact StrongerMarriages can have on relationships around the world.
But we need your help to make it as impactful as it can be.
We have four specific goals for StrongerMarriages as we head into 2016:
1) We want to have the number one marriage podcast in the world.
More and more people are leaving traditional radio for podcasts and on-demand programming available online and on mobile devices. This is the future of ministry. We are in the early stages of working with a knowledgeable team to do something on the level of Serial and other hugely popular podcasts. A high-quality, well-produced show that will be like nothing in this space but that anyone would be proud to share.
2) We want StrongerMarriages to be strong offline as well.
We have a great team of influencers, speakers, bloggers, and writers with massive followings who are getting the word out about StrongerMarriages, including our marriage live events, which we’re scheduling with increasing frequency.
But we want to think bigger and launch some aggressive campaigns that will reach millions more. We reached half a million people in 15 days with almost no promotion; what could we do if we really tried? We’re working with a team that does Facebook Ads, as well as with Google and YouTube to target the people we want to reach.
In addition to reaching people online we want to reach people offline and we have a killer idea that we will do Valentine’s Day, which brings us to:
3) We want to plaster America with Valentine’s Day 2016 billboards.
All these billboards will have marriage quotes on them—some funny, some serious—and all will point to StrongerMarriages.com. We’ll promote them in the press and online, turning it into a major campaign that extends into print and online. If we do it right, we will make national news.
And finally:
4) We want to hire full-time staff.
We’re so committed to the strength and longevity of StrongerMarriages that we intend to hire full-time staff just to oversee and concentrate on this invaluable ministry.
But we can’t do this without your help. We need your generosity in order to put the necessary weight behind StrongerMarriages so that it can find the audience that so desperately needs it.
I invite you to visit StrongerMarriages. Take a look around. I’m confident that you’ll like what you see, and when you do, I’d ask that you make a contribution to help us invest in this resource so countless couples can invest in their marriage.
Visit X3Christmas.com to get more details on our plans and to download a copy of our most recent informational magazine.
Call it a Christmas gift to marriage.
DONATE HERE TODAY!
Let’s make marriage stronger. Together.
PS. When you give $100 or more, we have a thank-you gift for you in return: access to our online Married workshop! Thank you for your support.