Become the husband and wife you are called to be.
Marriage Every Day™ is a home for couples who want to keep growing together. Practical learning that fits real life, other couples walking with you, and real reasons to get together in person, through every season of a lifelong marriage.
For couples in their first year and their fortieth, and for couples preparing to marry.
What actually happens
Marriages rarely fall apart. They drift.
Your wedding began your marriage. It did not finish your formation. Work, money, children, and routine start doing the deciding, and the support you had while preparing quietly runs out.
Staying intentional is the whole thing. Not a program to survive, not a crisis plan. A way of paying attention to your marriage that keeps up with the life you are actually living, year after year.
MARRIAGE FORMATION FLYWHEEL
Your vows are lived in everyday life.
Marriage is a lifelong covenant lived through ordinary days and changing seasons. The Marriage Formation Flywheel brings practical education, IRL connection, and intentional accompaniment together to help you live your vows with greater intention and continue growing as husband and wife.
Each part strengthens the others. Couples can experience all three at the same time, and momentum builds as one experience leads naturally into another.
You can enter the flywheel anywhere. A course, conversation, gathering, or check-in can become your next step. Each experience can lead naturally to another, creating an ongoing rhythm that supports your marriage over time.
- Education
- Learn something useful for the marriage you are living now.
- Mini courses, workshops, videos, articles, and practical tools help you understand one another better and put what you learn into practice.
- Accompaniment
- Receive encouragement that helps you keep going.
- Regular check-ins, guided conversations, reflection questions, and trusted support help you notice where you are, talk about what matters, and determine your next meaningful step.
- IRL
- Make meaningful time for your marriage and connect with other couples in real life.
- Date Nights, gatherings, workshops, local experiences, and shared activities create opportunities to enjoy one another, build friendships, and grow within a genuine community.
Membership
Start this month with us.
The flywheel only turns when couples are actually in it. Membership opens the courses, the conversations, and the events, and you can start with this month's Alignment Focus.
$9 a month, first month free. Or $99 a year.
- Courses and workshops built for married life
- Conversations with other couples who value marriage
- Live events, prayer, and discussions through the year
Education
Keep learning how to love each other well.
What would be useful for us to learn, understand, or practice right now?
Nobody arrives at marriage already knowing how to do it, and the things you need change as your life does.
Education is more than reading something new. It covers the understanding, skills, practices, and perspective that help husbands and wives communicate better, repair conflict, make decisions together, handle money, grow in faith, and keep building a friendship that lasts. Mini Courses are one important format inside it, alongside workshops, live teaching, discussion guides, articles, video, and reflection.
- Mini Courses on the subjects couples keep working through
- Workshops, live teaching, and expert conversations
- Discussion guides and reflection you can use at home
- Scripture-rooted formation for married life
- Preparation and follow-up around local events
- Learning tied to the month's Alignment Focus
Accompaniment
You should not have to figure marriage out alone.
Who is walking with us, and what can we learn from one another?
Other couples have already lived what you are living, and most of them are glad to talk about it.
Couples do not have to walk alone. Accompaniment is relational before it is anything else: other couples learning alongside you, experienced couples sharing what they have lived, clergy and ministry leaders present in the conversation, prayer, encouragement, and honest challenge when it helps. Guided monthly check-ins are one expression of that, not the whole of it.
- Couple-to-couple encouragement and shared wisdom
- Experienced married couples and mentor relationships
- Small groups and facilitated conversations
- Clergy, ministry leaders, and trusted contributors
- Guided monthly check-ins and Alignment Focus conversations
- Prayer, member stories, and suggested next steps
Events
This week
Conversations That Heal
A 45-minute gathering, together from anywhere
Conversations That Heal
A 45-minute gathering, together from anywhere
Conversations That Heal
A 45-minute gathering, together from anywhere
Near Me shows couples, gatherings, and local events close to you, so getting together stops depending on someone finally sending the text.
IRL
Formation belongs at a real table, with real people.
Where can we live this out with other people?
Some of the best things that happen to a marriage happen at somebody else's dinner table.
Formation should not stay trapped inside a screen. IRL moves it into homes, parishes, churches, restaurants, and neighborhoods. Marriage Every Day can create, curate, surface, promote, host, or sponsor real-life opportunities, and so can dioceses, parishes, churches, partner organizations, and members themselves. Near Me is one mechanism that helps couples discover what is around them.
- Dinner, coffee, and date nights with other couples
- Parish, church, and diocesan gatherings
- Retreats, workshops, and small groups
- Anniversary celebrations and newlywed gatherings
- Member-created gatherings and service projects
- Local opportunities surfaced through Near Me
All three at once
In practice, they overlap.
Education, Accompaniment, and IRL are not stages you pass through. A single evening can hold all three.
An evening at your parish
- IRL
You go to a marriage evening your parish or church is hosting.
- Education
The teaching that night gives you something practical about how the two of you talk to each other.
- Accompaniment
You end up talking with a couple further down the road, and the conversation keeps going afterward.
A month you actually used
- Education
You work through a Mini Course on conflict and repair together.
- Accompaniment
In the monthly check-in you hear what other couples have been practicing.
- IRL
You invite a nearby couple to dinner and talk about what you both learned.
In their words
What couples are hoping for when they join.
Husbands and wives arrive wanting the same few things: people to walk with, something worth talking about, and a faith they practice together.
A Year of Growing Together
One marriage. One Alignment Focus each month.
Marriage grows when husbands and wives regularly pause, understand each other, and choose how they want to move forward together. Each month, Marriage Every Day™ centers practical learning, honest conversation, shared experiences, intentional check-ins, and community around one meaningful Alignment Focus.
You do not need to address everything at once. Each Alignment Focus gives you and your spouse a clear place to begin and a practical way to keep becoming the husband and wife you're called to be.
Alignment does not mean agreeing about everything. It means understanding each other, recognizing where you may have drifted apart, and choosing how you want to move forward together.
September · This month's Alignment Focus
Readiness and Commitment
Renew your commitment, strengthen your shared direction, and respond faithfully to the vocation you are living together.
There is no perfect month to begin. Join now and start with the Alignment Focus in front of you.
Up next in October
Family of Origin and Boundaries
Understand how your family histories shape your marriage while developing healthy boundaries that protect your life together.
See the whole year
The whole year is below, in order, with nothing hidden. Read what a month asks of you before you ever join.
The full year, month by month
- January
Expectations and Roles
Clarify what you each expect from marriage, how you share responsibility, and the kind of life you want to build together.
- February
Intimacy and Affection
Strengthen emotional and physical closeness through affection, attentiveness, trust, and intentional time together.
- March
Faith, Values, and Meaning
Explore the beliefs, values, and shared sense of purpose that guide your marriage and your life together.
- April
Finances and Stewardship
Develop greater unity around money, generosity, priorities, decisions, and the resources entrusted to your family.
- May
Parenting and Family Vision
Shape a shared vision for your family, faith, home, traditions, hospitality, and the legacy you hope to create.
- June
Communication
Learn to speak honestly, listen generously, and understand what your spouse is really trying to say.
- July
Conflict and Repair
Handle disagreements with greater patience, humility, and respect, then learn how to reconnect after conflict.
- August
Forgiveness, Grace, and Resilience
Practice mercy, heal ordinary hurts, persevere through difficulty, and make room for grace in your marriage.
- SeptemberThis month
Readiness and Commitment
Renew your commitment, strengthen your shared direction, and respond faithfully to the vocation you are living together.
- October
Family of Origin and Boundaries
Understand how your family histories shape your marriage while developing healthy boundaries that protect your life together.
- November
Mission, Witness, and Service
Discover how your marriage can serve others, reflect your faith, and contribute to your family, church, and community.
- December
Rituals, Celebration, and Renewal
Create meaningful traditions, celebrate what God has done, and enter the coming year with gratitude and renewed intention.
How each month comes to life
A shared focus becomes a shared experience.
Each Alignment Focus reaches you through all three parts of the Marriage Formation Flywheel at once: Education, Accompaniment, and IRL. That is how insight turns into something your marriage actually does.
Education
Teaching, Mini Courses, discussion guides, and practical skills help you understand the month's Alignment Focus and what it asks of you.
Accompaniment
Other couples, mentors, clergy, guided conversations, and a monthly check-in help you talk it through and choose a next step together.
IRL
Gatherings, local events, and time with other couples turn the month's focus into something you actually live out.
Join a growing community of husbands and wives taking meaningful steps together. Begin with this month's Alignment Focus and continue growing throughout the year.
For ministry leaders
You create the opportunity. We help the right couples find it.
Marriage ministry is local, and it should stay that way. Marriage Every Day™ can extend the reach of what your parish, church, or ministry is already doing.
Tell us about your newlywed dinners, anniversary Masses, retreats, date nights, and workshops, and we will help nearby couples hear about them. Between those moments, couples keep receiving formation and accompaniment you do not have the hours to give every couple every month.
Where you are
There is a way in for every couple.
Engaged, newly married, or decades in. Start where your faith already lives and keep going from there.
Where this comes from
Trusted experience behind every part of it.
Marriage Every Day™ was created by The Marriage Group®, which has spent nearly 20 years in marriage formation and served more than 100,000 couples in more than 100 countries. More than 20,000 members now use Marriage Every Day to keep learning and growing together.
20,000+ members
Christian couples using Marriage Every Day™ to keep growing together
Marriage Every Day™
100,000+ couples
Served by The Marriage Group® in marriage formation
The Marriage Group®
100+ countries
Where couples have been served
The Marriage Group®
Nearly 20 years
Of marriage formation experience behind the brand
The Marriage Group®
Marriage Every Day™ was created by The Marriage Group®, which has served couples in marriage formation for nearly 20 years.
Where this comes from
Built by people who have spent years with couples.
Marriage Every Day™ is endorsed by The Marriage Group® and works alongside Advanced Ministries™ to serve couples across Christian traditions, Catholic couples among them.
Begin
Keep growing together.
Find the path that fits where you are, and continue your journey inside Marriage Every Day™.
$9 a month, first month free. Or $99 a year.