Help for Hurting Marriages — Transforming Unhappy Marriages Into Happy Ones and Good Marriages Into Great Ones
Is your marriage hurting? Twenty years after it was first recorded, “Help for Hurting Marriages” is still one of Steve Wood’s most-requested talks, and its wisdom is as needed today as ever.
In every marriage there are highs and lows, good times and difficult times. All couples struggle. How you handle those daily struggles can make all the difference in your marriage, your children, and the world around you. In this talk, Steve Wood shares practical, faith-filled guidance for transforming unhappy marriages into happy ones and good marriages into great ones.
In this talk you’ll learn:
✔ Skills for strengthening marital communication
✔ What a couple should do if their marriage is hurting
✔ How to help friends who are in hurting marriages
✔ What you need to know about the “danger years”
✔ How the birth of a child affects your marriage
✔ Help for stress, overload, and burnout
✔ Healing financial frictions
✔ Suggestions for choosing a marriage counselor
Whether you’re newly married, decades in, or walking alongside a couple who is struggling, this talk offers hope and concrete steps forward. Listen now on YouTube:
About Steve Wood
Steve Wood is the founder of Family Life Center International. He and his wife, Karen, have been married 48 years and are the parents of eight children and grandparents of twenty-three grandchildren.
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© Family Life Center International, Inc. Originally recorded in 2006 / Edited for YouTube in 2026