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EVANS BUKO
It's good to be submissive to one another. I have totally failed in my life, with two different women I desired. Both marriages were blessed with a child each. But I get disappointed after 6 years (divorced). I STILL DO NOT UNDERSTAND, despite spiritually being close and a church goer.
I openly need some assistance from the many contributors as I am following this discussion seriously.
thank you for your advice
BUKO
Haiping Hu
Divorce is not a solution of marriage! As Christians, we need to resolve problems in all means with the power of God's love!
James Kraft
Since my wife and I just celebrated our 62nd wedding anniversary I have experience.
We dated all through high school and were married as soon as she graduated. I was a year ahead.
Since we still have a sin nature after we are born again, Ephesians 1:13, we have to be wary of those things that can work against us.
We were already best friends when we were married. Do not let the church come between you and your wife.
God instituted marriage before the church. The church is all born again believers, not a building or a denomination.
We grow together in grace. We have to recognize that neither of us are perfect. It is easier to forgive others when we know we have our own faults and weaknesses.
Love is still the strongest emotion. It is what binds us together.
We raised four children all teenagers at one time. If you can get through that, your marriage will last forever.
I have been retired for 16 years and my wife and I spend most of our time together because when we are apart we feel lost.
What happens between a man and woman who love each other can not be bought or sold.
We have been through many trials and tribulation but we allow those things to drive us together instead of apart.
The reward of staying together for life is the reward. You can not know until you get there.
We are both 80 years old. Sometimes we will be in line at a place to eat, and some one will say. " Did you see the way that woman looks at her husband". These things are priceless.
We go on a dinner date at least once a week. Just the two of us.
All I can say is what we have experienced in our own life. No one can live someone else's life. We can only live our own life.
Love is the number 1 thing. Love keeps us together forever.
Many unbelievers have great marriages. But as believers we know we will have rewards in heaven for what we do in this life. Eternal life is a free GIFT, but rewards in heaven are earned.