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I’m so glad you dropped by. My name is Stu Gray — and I love encouraging couples to have Stupendous Marriages — that is what this blog is all about. You can find out more about me and my journey to start the Marry Blogger here.

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If you would like to take a look around, here are the 10 most popular posts on The Marry Blogger right now (Take your time! Maybe you can bookmark this page and come back to it over the course of a couple weeks!):

• The Top 10 Marriage Blogs of 2009 2009 was the first year for the “Top Ten Marriage Blog” List. If you are looking for great reads to encourage you and your marriage, start with these terrific blogs. I am looking forward to making this an annual list to highlight other great Marriage Blogs.
• Eat Chocolate with This 30 Day Challenge The 30 Day marriage Challenges started with this post. My Beautiful Wife and I offer a new challenge every 30 days with Video updates about how we are doing with the challenge. This particular challenge was about using positive words, instead of tearing our spouses down all the time.
• 5 Reasons I Should Initiate Sex with My Wife This is a post about the fear of “Rejection” in the bedroom. How do I get past it, and why should it not phase me as much?
• How to Be a Proverbs 31 Husband Proverbs 31.10-31 talks about a virtuous wife – and makes reference to her husband 3 times. What can we learn from those 3 mentions in Proverbs 31?
• Wives Try This: Initiate Sex With Your Husband As a response to my 5 reasons post from above, my beautiful wife™ offers a challenge to the wives who read TMB.
• 6 Ways to Kick Boredom Out of the Bedroom Just what the name implies – here are 6 ways to keep your marriage interesting instead of boring!
• 118 Fun and Easy Marriage Tips The very first post on TMB lists 118 ideas for you and your spouse.
• 5 Ways to Set Goals for Your Marriage Having a vision in your marriage is very important. Here are 5 ways to begin developing a vision by setting goals together.
• Porn is About the Parts This post is part of an ongoing series about Pornography and Marriage – it is part of my story, so I want to encourage others who might struggle with porn.
• Do You Think Your Wife is the Problem? Think Again This guest post from Annalea Sommerville talks about husbands really laying down their lives for their wives – much like Christ did.

Here are some of my personal favorites:

• Treat Your Spouse Like a Stranger Maybe we should treat our spouses like strangers on the street. Many times we are actually nicer to the stranger than to our spouse.
• 11 Skills to Develop In Your Marriage Here is a list of quick skills to develop in your marriage.
• 2 Quick Ways to Change Your Thoughts Our thinking is an important part of our marriage. What goes into our brains, and what happens with our thoughts. Here are 2 ways to help our thoughts be better.
• The Power of 3 Minutes and 30 Seconds What loving actions can you take for your spouse in 3 minutes and thirty seconds? Here are several ideas.
• 50+ Tips on Marriage and Money If finances or budgeting is an issue in your marriage – here is a list of several great articles and blog posts about finances and budgeting.
• Spend 10,000 Hours Getting Good At Marriage Malcolm Gladwell says it takes 10,000 to get good at anything. What if we applied that to our marriages?

Other Places to Visit ’round these parts:

You can visit the Archives from the Marry blogger to read whatever you like!

If you are looking for a challenge to work on together – Check out the list of 30 Day Marriage Challenge Videos! Pick one and get started!

If you struggle with porn in your marriage, I have developed a Resource Page full of great marriage blogs, internet filters, recovery groups and websites.

I was part of a team of marriage and relationship writers that put together a FREE E-book to encourage you in your marriage – its called Love Everyday .

I write about Marriage at the Traditional Love blog at YourTango.com, and I have a lens on Squidoo called “Help For Your Marriage!”

Thanks for stopping by – I look forward to meeting you!

photo by Thomas Hawk