GTab Covenant Marriage Ministry

01/14/2026

Love is the atmosphere of marriage and it must be sustained. Subsequently, it
must be instigated on purpose.

The atmosphere of Love is neither the reward of the passive nor the result of the spontaneous. Therefore, if you want a successfully loving marriage, you must determine to express your Love to your spouse daily!

….Gerald T. Dolphus, author

03/27/2024

This is good.

203.8K likes, 2075 comments. “True Love by Smith”

10/26/2022

08/09/2020

(5) Abiding Relationship Commitment.

Date Night builds attachment. When you experience the commitment of your partner, your sense of being firmly attached will provide you with a stable, deeply satisfying relationship.

Partners who cherish and prize each other, who steer clear of other romantic opportunities, and who nurture a strong sense of “we-ness” or togetherness are significantly more happy than are less-committed, “iffy” couples. Commitment is scary. But commitment satisfies deeply.

Dates foster an abiding sense of “couplehood.” The deliberate planning and pursuit of date night allow partners to choose one another—in front of friends and family.

08/04/2020

(4) De-Stress.

Couples that have a regular Date Nights maintain a connection through intimate conversation and emotional support. They also lower the stress on their brains, as well as their partners. Fortunately, nature has endowed us with high resiliency in this area.

We don’t always have to connect with our partner correctly. Still, we do have to preserve and develop our capacity to pay attention and be fully present to our partners when they are stressed and to be a solidly loyal and reliable friend.

07/31/2020

(3) Love Making.

Romantic love is that erotic spark, excitement, and an overwhelming sense of attraction to your significant other. But with time, the emotional and physical expression of erotic love tends to fade in many couples.

Because Date Night allows a couple to focus on their connection completely, the erotic spark may be restored by the intentional pursuit of romance, novelty, and more in-depth communication. Date Nights may not only rekindle the romance, but regular Date Nights can also help sustain the fires of love over the long haul.

07/30/2020

(2) Novelty.

Couples typically experience habituation, a “settling in” quality where both are more likely to take each other for granted.

The symbiotic “we are a couple” sensibility can settle into an ordinary domestic routine. But new research indicates that a deficit in fun and novelty is toxic.

A balance of activities, attractive to both, which emphasizes novel and different experiences can help increase intimacy.

07/28/2020

5 Important reasons to have Date Night..

(1) Communication.

Date Night helps with communication. This is an essential element of an intimate relationship. But communication also involves the willingness to remove distractions such as children and career demands deliberately.

Date Nights also offers couples the opportunity to discuss topics of mutual importance. They can self-define and dialogue about mutual aspirations.

Communication is like a muscle. Sometimes you plan your communication workouts.

Gottman’s research, in particular, tells us that a “stress-reducing” conversation can help couples to stay current with what is actually moving through their intimate partner’s life.

07/27/2020

When is your next Date-night?

In this climate of change, shut down and shut in, it is important to remember one another. Attitudes can be bad, depression on the rise, and even adjusting to unexpected change can cause some issues in the marriage. We have found Date night to be an awesome avenue for rekindling, remembering, and forgetting.

What is a Date Night? A Date Night is a typically pre-planned evening when a committed couple carves out some time for themselves away from their children and other responsibilities. Date Nights can also be “Date Days,” but the key idea is that the couple is spending time as a couple, and not as unstructured “family time.”

Some couples struggle with the definition of a Date Night. Deciding to go get pizza on the spur of the moment lacks the planning and “special” feel of a true Date Night.

A Date Night definition includes a sense of leaving the ordinary realm of daily experience. You dress differently. You go to a different place or engage in an unusual activity that isn’t part of your daily routine. Date Nights are unique, and out of the ordinary.

So get to planning! Dress up, order in, set the table with candle light for 2, put the kids to bed (or give them a long book - where they know all of the words, and don’t have to ask you), and get your romance on. Go ahead, it’s biblical. You’ll thank me later.

07/26/2020

2. Psalm 1:1-3
“Blessed is the one who does not walk in step with the wicked or stand in the way that sinners take or sit in the company of mockers, but whose delight is in the law of the Lord, and who meditates on his law day and night. That person is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither—whatever they do prospers.” Psalm 1:1-3
Lord, may our delight be in YOU, may we meditate on Your law day and night. When we do so, our marriage and our family will be like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields FRUIT in its season and whose leaf does not wither.