Couples Quick Lessons

15 Minute Lessons

Better Together: Did you know? Research shows that couples benefit more from relationship education like this when they learn together rather than individually. So invite your spouse or partner to join you.

Breaking Unhealthy Relationship Patterns

Learn practical skills to build lasting, fulfilling relationships. Gain confidence, identify green flags, and set empowering boundaries for thriving connections. Break free from unhealthy patterns.

Dealing Effectively with Sexual Rejection and Sexual Pressure in Marriage

Spouses or committed partners often find that they have quite different levels of sexual desire. This can lead to a sense of rejection by one partner and a libido-killing feeling of pressure by the other partner. Learn how to navigate your sexual relationship and meet both partner’s sexual needs in your relationship—whether you’re feeling rejected by a spouse who often says “no” to sex or you’re the one often saying “no” to sex with your partner.

Developing Understanding and Compassion in Romantic Relationships

Enhance your relationship with lessons on compassion, regular check-ins, openness, vulnerability, and responding to partner self-disclosure for deeper, intentional connections.

Disagree Better: It Starts With Me

Learn to disagree better with tips and tools for parents and children, fostering respect, compassion, and civility in all interactions. Take notes for maximum benefit.

Disagree Better: In the Home

Discover tips and tools for respectful and compassionate disagreements in the Disagree Better series, helping parents and children foster civility at home and beyond.

Disagree Better: Outside the Home

Learn four key principles for resolving disagreements with coworkers, classmates, and friends using the P.A.U.S.E. method to manage "internal irritation" effectively.

Discussing the Division of Childcare Tasks and Gender Roles

Negotiating childcare can be a major source of contention for many couples, but there are strategies that couples can use to manage childcare work in a constructive way. This lesson will provide couples with tips to manage a fair and balanced division of labor that can increase relationship well-being and satisfaction.

Discussing Household Labor and Gender Roles

This lesson will provide couples with tips to manage a fair and balanced division of labor that can increase relationship well-being and satisfaction. This lesson compliments a parallel lesson focused on tips for discussing the division of childcare.

Communicating Openly about Mental and Physical Health with a Potential Spouse

Knowing how to talk about your mental and physical health with a potential spouse can be difficult. But because health can affect every aspect of a relationship, it’s an important conversation to have for preparing for a lifelong partnership. This lesson will help you better understand how health issues can affect a marriage. In addition, it will help better understand your own mental and physical health, as well as give you practical tips for discussing health challenges, providing support to, and setting goals with your partner.

Discussing Money Before Marriage

Learn premarital financial considerations and wellness in relationships. Master financial conversations, identify red/green flags, and build strong financial habits before marriage.

Discussing Your Values, Strengths, Morals, and Religious Beliefs and Expectations

Discussing your values, strengths, morals, and religious beliefs is an important part of deepening a relationship and preparing for a lifelong partnership. These conversations can help build a strong foundation for your marriage.

Embracing Self-Image and Healthy Desire

Boost your sex life and confidence by overcoming negative body image thoughts. Discover practical tips for focusing on pleasure and connection today. Start your journey now!

Express These 10 Compliments to Your Wife

Learn how expressions of appreciation and admiration strengthen relationships by adding "relationship capital" to your "emotional bank account." Personalize ten concrete compliments.

Finding Couple Connection Through Emotional and Other Kinds of Intimacy

Real intimacy requires comfort with yourself and effort from both partners. Learn what it takes to move towards deeper intimacy and connection. Choose and feel chosen in your marriage, enjoy deep and meaningful conversation and laughter with your spouse, and create the kind of support that allows you to feel safe and happy in your relationship.

Frequently Asked Questions about the Divorce Process

Getting a divorce can be one of the most difficult decisions in life and one of the most confusing. This course will help you better understand the legal divorce process, such as whether you need an attorney to get a divorce, how long a divorce may take, what the financial costs and issues are (including child support and alimony payments), and how divorce may affect parenting time with your children.

Getting Married in the State of Utah: Frequently Asked Legal Questions

This lesson is primarily intended for people who are planning to get married in Utah. There is both general information and specific information that applies to those who are marrying before the age of 18 and those who are going through a divorce and planning to remarry soon.

How to Get Out of an Abusive Relationship

Getting Out of an Abusive Relationship

Discover how to identify, plan, and safely exit abusive relationships, with crucial considerations and resources for survivors in this lesson on relationship abuse.

Growing Together Through Connections

This lesson will explain the value of surrounding your relationship with community ties and will share tips for developing connections with other couples and other organizations.

Healing from Financial Secrets

Discover how to address and heal from financial secrets in relationships, and learn effective money management techniques to protect against long-term damage.

Healthy Wedding Planning (Part I)

Marriage Preparation and the Importance of Team Work. This is the first of three lessons on healthy wedding planning. Planning a wedding is an exciting journey, but it can also be overwhelming. This first lesson will discuss the importance of creating healthy habits as a couple before marriage. It also will teach you the power of teamwork and extending support throughout the planning process. With the right tools and approach, you can enjoy a less stressful and more joyful wedding planning experience.

Healthy Wedding Planning (Part II)

Wedding Costs and Planning for Your Financial Future. This is the second lesson in a three-part series on healthy wedding planning. Planning a wedding is an exciting journey, but it can also be overwhelming. This lesson will guide you through the research on wedding costs, going into deep debt for a wedding, and how that can affect marital satisfaction and risks for divorce. It will also provide suggestions for wedding budgeting and managing your wedding finances wisely.

Healthy Wedding Planning (Part III)

Setting Boundaries and Prioritizing Your Partner. This is the third lesson in a 3-part series on healthy wedding planning. A wedding is a special celebration of love and family, but sometimes loved ones can get a little too involved! In this lesson, you'll learn how to set healthy boundaries with parents and in-laws, build a strong connection with your fiancé’s family, and create a solid foundation for your marriage. As you plan your wedding, you’ll learn how to balance family expectations while keeping your relationship with your partner a top priority.

Improving Conflict Management Skills

This lesson will help you better understand that conflict is a normal aspect of all close relationships. It will focus on improving communication and not avoiding conflict but managing it through healthy strategies that will help strengthen your relationship.

Learning Your Spouse's Love Language

Discover the impact of love languages on relationships. Learn to identify and communicate your primary love language and enhance your connection with your partner.

Love Boost: Strengthening Connections

Learn essential principles and skills to foster long-term, healthy relationships. Discover foundational principles and pillars of connection for authentic, lasting bonds.

Manage Conflict with Your Partner

Learn practical skills to manage relationship conflict healthily. Discover four patterns to avoid and five strategies for better conflict resolution with your partner.

Managing Money in Marriage

Learn four key principles of financial partnership and improve each spouse's financial literacy. Discover helpful therapy for couples with ongoing money-related marital struggles.

Media and Technoference in Romantic Relationships

This lesson focuses on identifying and reducing technoference for couples in their relationship. It also will engage participants in creating some guidelines around technology use in their relationship.

Recognizing and Responding to Bids for Connection in Marriage

Our spouse or partner regularly makes bids for connection with us. How we respond makes a huge difference in the quality of our relationship and the stability of our marriage. We can strengthen our relationships when we recognize bids for connection and turn toward them rather than turn against or turn away from them.

Showing Loyalty to Your Spouse

Loyalty is one of the cornerstones of a strong and enduring marriage. But loyalty can be challenged in various ways, some obvious but others not so obvious. In this lesson, participants will learn how to recognize more subtle forms of disloyalty and consider ways to show more loyalty to their partner.

Strengthening Dating Commitment

Learn about relationship commitment, its importance, and how to strengthen it, or identify unhealthy relationships. Overcome fears and understand true commitment in this lesson.

Strengthening Marriage Commitment

Strengthen your relationship commitment with research-based tips. Learn practical strategies for understanding and enhancing commitment in a committed relationship. Achieve lasting love and partnership success.

Strengthen Your Marriage through Supporting Others

Married couples can strengthen their relationship by supporting other marriages and families in their communities. By reaching beyond your own relationship and mentoring others, your marriage can grow stronger. Learn ways to help your own marriage by serving other marriages and families.

Taking the Long View of Marriage

On their wedding day, most couples don’t anticipate that they will one day get divorced, but divorce remains common. Learn what it means to take a long view of marriage, the benefits of commitment in a marital relationship, strategies to improve your relationship so you want to stay committed, and types of resources couples can seek if they are struggling with commitment. Finally, learn what to do if you are in a committed relationship but have personal safety concerns.

Tips for Planning a Honeymoon

Planning a honeymoon is exciting but there are a lot of decisions to make. This lesson helps couples plan for their honeymoon in a respectful and stress-free way. It discusses the importance of planning for a honeymoon early, creating a shared vision, establishing a budget, and remaining flexible during the planning process. It also discusses the true meaning of a honeymoon and the opportunity to set the stage for marriage.

Understanding Relationship Abuse

Learn about abuse in intimate relationships: defining relationship abuse, types of abuse, examples, who experiences it, and common signs of an abusive relationship.

When and How to Disclose Your Past to Your Partner

Let’s be real—talking about personal struggles, past experiences, or sensitive topics with someone you care about isn’t always easy. But honest communication is key to building a strong, healthy relationship. In this lesson, we’ll walk through how to have those tough-but-important conversations with your dating or engaged partner. You’ll learn how to share openly and respectfully, so you can build trust, deepen your connection, and set your relationship up for long-term success.