The word cherish implies a specific attitude and means that you recognize your mate’s incredible value. You have the opportunity every day to choose to see how incredibly valuable your spouse is.
Marriage Success
If you look at a waffle, you see a collection of boxes all separate from each other. That is typically how a man processes life. His thinking is divided into boxes that have room for only one issue.
For most women, every thought and issue is connected to every other thought and issue in some way. Life is much more of a process for women than it is for men.
Love is not only something God does; it’s who He is. Spending time with Him can help us appreciate this aspect of God. Then His unconditional and sacrificial love can overflow into our marriages.
Jesus laid down His life so that we might experience the new life that comes from His resurrection. In the same way, God calls us to lay down our own lives, serving our spouse unconditionally.
The best way to understand how you can nourish your marriage is to ask your spouse to finish this statement: “I feel loved when …” The answers are a gold mine of information.
Since love is shown through purposeful action, so we need to find ways each day to make the expression of our love a priority. We must study our spouse to know what makes him or her feel loved.
Marriage requires sacrifice. Sometimes the sacrifices are small. Other times they’re life-altering. No matter the size, the sacrifice means nothing without love.
Marcus and Amani Pollard learned early that if either had an issue, they needed to talk about the problem and move on. These communication skills have helped build respect for each other.
It took a lot of desire, focus, patience and hard work for Drew Brees to get to the Super Bowl. And he’s found it takes the same kind of effort to raise a family.
A husband should care for his wife with the same intensity he nourishes his own body. So husbands must spend time every day doing things that help a wife feel loved.
Let Erin Smalley’s 10 tips on fighting for your marriage help you strengthen and deepen your relationship.
Culture says that chemistry and compatibility are keys to an enjoyable marriage, but character and commitment are really the essential qualities.
Choosing to invest in your marriage helps to strengthen the lifelong commitment that is foundational to your relationship.
Only you know the best relational investments for your marriages. Thriving couples proactively invest in each other and in their marriages.
The great commandment teaches that self-care is not selfish — it’s actually foundational to a healthy marriage.
The great commandment teaches that self-care is not selfish — it’s actually foundational to a healthy marriage.
By developing a healthy pattern of coping with stress and change, you’ll be more likely to deal with issues as a married couple.
Francis Chan discusses how having a marriage focused on a mission will require commitment and sacrifice, asking couples if their view of the future is big enough.
In this first article of Shaunti Feldhahn’s three-part series, she shares how believing the best about your spouse, even when you’re hurt, makes for a happier marriage.