How to Keep a Marriage
- Posted by brooger on 01.08.2010
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When God officiated the wedding of our first parents, Adam and Eve, established a plan for all couples. Genesis 2:24 account: "... man leaves his father and mother and cleaves to his wife, and they shall become one flesh. " The union of marriage would be the most intimate of all human relationships. For her, husband and wife become one flesh. "Because no one," argues Paul, "ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and takes care of it." And he wrote more:
"He who loves his wife loves himself" (Ephesians 5:28, 29).
Follow up:
Marriage is a union of love. Was established to satisfy the deep longing in the soul deployed by the God of love - the desire to give and receive love.
The opposite of love is selfishness. Selfishness think of yourself, seek its own interests, seeking only to receive. Unfortunately many marry for selfish reasons: they want only their will and pleasure satisfied. Therefore, such marriages are never happy and end quickly.
The conjugal love must be nourished, strengthened. He must always grow. Its flame should become increasingly intense. And this does not come by chance. Requires planning, requires effort - effort by incessant inner life. Someone rightly said that married life is a school in which we never graduate.
On today's show I want to give some tips to keep the marriage. The first is the recognition of each spouse at home. The plan of God the husband is the head of the family. Should be honored as such by his wife and children. But the wife is the queen of the home. And she should be beside her husband in the direction of home.
A second tip for keeping the marriage is mutual fidelity. Marriage is a sacred union and requires complete fidelity to the husband's wife and the wife to her husband. The order is clear: "Do not commit adultery" (Exodus 20:14). This total dedication to one another builds trust and nurtures love. Conversely, infidelity, is the man or woman, raises jealousy, resentment.
The third tip is the effort of mutual accommodation. After a few days after the wedding, and started real life, begin to show the weaknesses of both. The husband sees his wife with negative points that may not dreaming, and the wife sees her husband also defects that could not imagine ... There is need understanding, support and seeks to enhance the qualities, helping to overcome the negatives.
The fourth tip for keeping the marriage is an expression of love. In married life, love should be expressed by words - words of appreciation for the efforts of the husband, wife, words that mutual love is assured. Some think that the companion of life knows he is loved and is not to say to the other. Others think that the expression of love is a demonstration of weakness.
Love must be expressed by actions, relieving each other burdens. The first attention, dispensed with such great satisfaction at the stage of courtship and engagement, should continue after the wedding. If the bride or girlfriend deserved attention, much more worthy of this is the wife.
A gift from time to time is a demonstration of love reciprocated by the other side with a deeper affection. It is not necessary to spend the salary of the month. Even a pretty flower if given with sincerity, produces its effect.
A fifth tip for keeping the marriage is to give God a place in the life of the couple. True love triangle is formed by the husband, the wife and God. The better our relationship with God, the better our relationship with the partner of life.
God must be the center of our life, the object of our supreme love. This must come first and should be done with joy. So, the divine source of every good gift, will, husband and wife.
Friend reader, God instituted marriage to be a blessing. Those who meet these conditions have the precious gift of a blissful oneness.
If I'm speaking now to a couple who is not happy, I would say, ending: although they may be difficulties, perplexities, neither the husband nor the wife should harbor the thought that their marriage is a mistake or a disappointment. Let each resolve to be to the other all that is possible. Continue, recall the first attention and gestures. There is mutual love and patience. So the marriage, rather than the end of love will be like your start. The warmth of true friendship, the love that binds heart to heart, is a sample of the joys of heaven.
In Marrige
