Quotes About Marriage

we can't force our spouses to do what we want them to do

in Him we have the opportunity to defuse bombs the enemy has planted that are set to destroy what God has joined together. Are

and life-giving. Ask God to be in charge of your marriage, and tell Him you will do whatever it takes to see that it becomes all it was intended to be. Even if it means being nice when you don't feel like it.

Pray that your marriage is one in which you both agree & that God will be in the center of it

A husband can hurt your feelings, be inconsiderate, uncaring, abusive, irritating, or negligent. He can say or do things that pierce your heart like a sliver. And every time you start to pray for him, you find the sliver festering. It's obvious you can't give yourself to praying the way God wants you to until you are rid of it.

No woman wants to be a complainer, but in her attempt to make life good for her husband, her children, herself, and others, she often sees things that are wrong and tries to change them with her words. If you ever find your wife saying the same thing over and over to you out of the frustration of her heart, pray with her about it.

During the first 14 of the 40 years Michael and I have been married, we experienced great strife and misery because we tried to do things in the flesh and not in the spirit.

The Bible says, "Husbands, likewise, dwell with them with understanding, giving honor to the wife, as to the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life, that your prayers may not be hindered" (1 Peter 3:7).

If busyness, workaholism, unforgiveness, strife, child-rearing, careers, separate interests, boredom, or miscommunication has crept in between you and your wife, God can work through your prayers to bring down the wall that separates you, melt the armor that has been put on for self-protection, and mold you together in unity.

Salva nuestro matrimonio".

My job in my marriage was to choose houses and decorate them," she said. "My husband's job was to pay for them. Making money was the only thing that interested him, and he didn't care what I spent.

About every six to eight months, I run into a man who astounds me sexually, but between escapades, I'm celibate, which I don't think is any big deal. After two unsuccessful marriages, I find myself keeping my guard up, along with my underpants.

After two unsuccessful marriages, I find myself keeping my guard up, along with my underpants.

He sported a wedding ring and a wristwatch that looked sturdy enough to flush down a toilet without losing time.

Springsteen and Julianne Phillips were married. The story moved from Patti Scialfa's early career to her current state of bliss and ended with gushings of the "they were clearly meant for each other" variety. Oh yeah, right. Like that marriage would last. I

We, too, as the Celtic saying goes, "live in the shelter of each other." World War II historians have noted that the unit of survival in concentration camps was the pair, not the individual. Surveys show that married men and women generally live longer than do their single peers.

Spouses depending on each other too much was what wrecked marriages!

Yet another study found that women who had had a heart attack stood a threefold higher risk of having another if there was discord in their marriage.

Standing up in front of all your close family and friends and putting a ring on each other's finger is a statement of your intention to be this person's love and home.

The demise of marriages begins with a growing absence of responsive intimate interactions. The conflict comes later.

By far the most dominant of the trio is the Protest Polka. In this dialogue, one partner becomes critical and aggressive and the other defensive and distant. Psychologist John Gottman of the University of Washington in Seattle finds that couples who get stuck in this pattern in the first few years of marriage have more than an 80 percent chance of divorcing within four or five years.

When marriages fail, it is not increasing conflict that is the cause. It is decreasing affection and emotional responsiveness

Marriage researchers have labeled this next dance Demand-Withdraw or Criticize-Defend. I call it the Protest Polka because I see it as a reaction to or, more accurately, a protest against the loss of the sense of secure attachment that we all need in a relationship

Researchers say that marital distress raises the risk for depression tenfold!