Newlywed
NFP, PeakDay App & Wellness
Today, more than ever before, we are aware that overall health impacts our lives at the deepest levels. Couples working together to achieve health and wellness goals are more likely to succeed. With the introduction of new features in the app, PeakDay 3.0 now makes it easier than ever. One key goal for couples using…
Read MoreCharting in the First Year
Congratulations! Now you are married and can put what you learned in your NFP class to practice. On top of combining two lives into one, you now also get to start using NFP ‘for real’ together. It’s a great time for the husband to take over inputting the data onto the chart or app each…
Read More5 Ways to Get More Out of Marriage Prep
I’m currently four months deep in an 8-month engagement. As I write this, my fiancé is in a U-Haul moving across the country. He’ll stay there until I move and join him after the honeymoon. As we are now long-distance and because he is not Catholic, much of the planning and prep still remains. Despite…
Read MoreHabits for a Strong Marriage
CCL interviewed newlywed couples to discover common practices that, when lived during engagement and early marriage, will lay the groundwork for lasting, fruitful, and joyful marriages. Building on friendship and shared faith, trusting in the Church’s teaching authority, increasing the habit of prayer, and relying on the wisdom of a sponsor couple, Samantha and Daniel…
Read MoreLaying the Groundwork for Marriage
By Martha Haenni CCL interviewed newlywed couples to discover common practices that, when lived during engagement and early marriage, will lay the groundwork for lasting, fruitful, and joyful marriages. Foundational Elements For Elsie & Juan Carlos Hernandez, their shared Catholic faith, having an actively engaged parish priest preparing them for the sacrament of marriage, and…
Read MoreStart Giving Early in Your Marriage
Sacrifice and Self Denial It’s tempting to not put our envelope in the basket at Mass during those seasons. God will understand. Maybe next week we’ll have extra. However, we committed to always putting God first, even when it’s hard or it hurts. Saint John Paul II said, “Love between man and woman cannot be…
Read MoreNavigating NFP Together
Céline Gaeta interviews Amber and Conner DeHart. As newlyweds, they believe having conversations about family planning and navigating it together is a solid place to start. Céline: Connor and Amber, tell me a little about your family and how you met! Amber: Connor and I met at work, and we were friends long before we…
Read MoreTips for the Engaged and Charting
We are an engaged couple preparing for marriage. My fiancé and I are Catholic and talked a lot about our beliefs when we were first dating. One of those was Natural Family Planning (NFP). When we first got engaged, I made an appointment with a doctor who upheld Catholic teachings in her practice — including…
Read More5 Resources for Newlyweds
Written by Sharon Drees. Originally published in Family Foundations. My husband, Brian and I have been married for sixteen years. While the early days of our marriage were mostly “roses and lilacs” as we say in our family when referring to the ideal state of life, it didn’t take long before we realized that “happily…
Read MoreNewlywed and New to NFP (Part 2)
Written by S.J. Duca. Originally published in Family Foundations. Annie and Matt are the second couple featured in this two part series, where newlyweds share about their journey to the altar, their Natural Family Planning (NFP) experience, and what excites them most about Couple to Couple League’s new PeakDay app. ( You can read the…
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