Laugh Your Way to a Better Marriage: Unlocking the Secrets to Life, Love and Marriage
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Laugh Your Way to a Better Marriage: Unlocking the Secrets to Life, Love and Marriage
Affirming your commitment helps your wife or husband to see that you are interested in resolving a problem, not in getting your own way in a situation. Tell your husband how much you love and need him and that your marriage is the most important thing in the…
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Refusing to understand and appreciate our male/female differences, or trying to cover them up, results in tragedy.
Desire leaves most subtly through the lack of attention. The less attention you give to the people in your world, the less you will desire to share your life with them.
Though women have an amazing capacity to “read between the lines” during communication, they are not always right. Jesus warned about judgment. Judging occurs when someone does something and you don’t know why but you decide to assign a motive to it anyway. Rather than jumping to unnecessary and unproductive conclusions, women need to work on
... See moreDon’t go to bed mad. It was the apostle Paul who wrote, “Do not let the sun go down while you are still angry.”8 Decide in advance (a secret to being disciplined) that whenever you get into a spat, you will at least quash the negative emotions associated with the argument. And do it before you fall asleep (this will make for some long nights). You
... See moreUnless you communicate safety before you communicate anything else, you will never communicate effectively. Safety doesn’t mean you never fight or argue, it just means that you are careful to lay the ground rules. Start your conversation by affirming your commitment to the relationship. Everyone is listening for the “bottom line.” Affirming your
... See moreLove is not enough. She must be chosen. Choose her. The complaining wife doesn’t really care that her husband watches too much TV, or plays too many video games, or works too long; it is that he does those things instead of choosing her. The man who will regularly demonstrate to his wife that she is his top choice will be the man with an extremely
... See moreGod knows that the key to unlocking the potential in a man is to treat that man with unconditional respect, long before he deserves it.
In addition to the idol of happiness, we also worship the idol of easy. There are no easy buttons when it comes to accomplishing worthy endeavors, and this is especially true of relationships. Relationships like marriage take great courage and massive amounts of commitment. But this should cause no surprise; we know this makes sense. Nothing
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