Marriage links for the week
Doug at CoffeeSwirls writes about celebrating and renewing love. In part:
Ideally, a couple will find their spiritual base firming up as they are courting. A God-fearing nucleus in their relationship will enhance the next level of building in the home to include emotional intimacy, ideally coming together during the period of engagement.…Physical intimacy is only appropriate within the protective confines of marriage. I'm going to be frank with you for a moment. My home was not built in this order. In fact, it was roughly opposite. Just as you would expect with a home built upside-down, it was falling apart, splitting at the seams. God restored my marriage and nobody, especially myself, can claim any credit for this. I can’t lead you in this family building plan because that wasn't my plan that I used. I can, however, tell you that I desperately wish we had followed this blueprint.
In a link sent to me by Irene, Buaya69 says the first three years of his marriage were "HELL, yup, in bold capital letters." But they turned things around when he realized that his wife wanted a real man in her life. Read the whole thing (both parts, one and two), but he took the following steps:
- Decide to love my wife
- Grow a listening ear and a communicative tongue
- Make family decisions – take the lead
- TLC
Jollyblogger points to a post about him on his 11-year-old daughter's blog and says, "I'm a dad, what can you expect?"
Joe Carter at Evangelical Outpost finally explains to women why men do not ask for directions when we get "lost."
