Marriage

Disagreements, irritation, and even anger at our spouse don’t have to be relationship killers. When we are open to God’s leading in our hearts through our marriage relationship, He can (and will) use those times of conflict to help us grow and become more like Him.

Besides remembering what love is and how the Lord wants us to love our spouses, we also remember that they are human like we are. We all have off days and habits that we have difficulty breaking. We all forget things from time to time. Even though we don’t always like what our spouses do, we must always love them. We do things and get on their nerves as well. This is part of being married and living with another human being.

What does Proverbs 18:22 mean when it says, “He who finds a wife finds a good thing”? This article reflects on the blessing of a godly wife, celebrating her strength, support, peace, wisdom, and partnership while reminding readers that a wife is a precious gift from the Lord to be honored, cherished, and never taken for granted.

The “God hates divorce” statement is extremely harmful when Christians use it as a weapon to keep abused women (and men) in toxic marriages. Their intentions might be to save marriages, but the words only damage already hurting people.

I’m sure you’ve heard that your husband needs your respect just as much as you need his love. You can convey your respect to him through your gift of words, carefully chosen and lovingly spoken.

Your husband wants a lover, not a mother. And when you talk to him like you talk to your children or even use the same phrases with him that you use with them, an internal annoyance meter goes off that communicates to him: She’s treating me like a child.

God hates divorce is not the end of this divorce discussion. It doesn’t give us enough information or any context behind why God is saying this.

Put an under- and over- communicator together, and you have one spouse dying for some silence and the other one trying to squeeze a few more words out of the non-talker. We have learned to see the humor in this but also extend grace toward the other when the talker wants to have a conversation, and the thinker wants time to think it through.

In order to make sure your marriage is strong and on solid ground, you need to work at it. Here are five things that will help you increase your chances for a happy and successful marriage.

Spouses try many things to connect with each other mentally, emotionally, and sexually. The one area that sometimes gets neglected is their spiritual life. When both spouses take the time to invest in both their individual spiritual lives as well as their spiritual life as a couple, they may find they have a healthier and happier marriage because they invested precious time and resources into becoming the people with Christ-like character God has made them to be.

This isn’t all that could be said about relationships, but these are a few guardrails that I think will help you to thrive in your relationship with one another.

It's important to let your husband know that you’re not only thinking of him, but you’re thinking highly of him.

A relationship devoid of leading, serving, and affirming turns a deep pool of love into a dry well. Make it your resolution to avert this tragedy by loving your wife in these three ways...

Start with giving thanks to God for your spouse. Then, allow Him to stir in your heart for ways to speak words that will resonate and express gratitude that will speak volumes. Try sharing one simple form of gratitude daily for a week and watch what may happen. A simple word of thanks could mean more than you know, turning some of those daily responsibilities they may see as a burden into a smile, realizing that it has been a blessing to you.

Here are three ingredients to keep loving one another through the years even when our spouse has changed and the feelings don’t show up.