Marriage links for the week
I have never seen the movie Before Sunrise, but maybe that's a good thing. One young law student saw it when it was new, and it influenced him to change the entire direction of his life.
Mike Stubbs of Truth Rising explains how true intimacy can only be achieved with true devotion to one spouse, and how real fulfillment can only be achieved with real devotion to God.
World Magazine Blog links to an article about a study that found a strong correlation between marriage and health: "…(O)verall, married people are sick less often and more active. They smoke and drink less and in general feel better than single, divorced, never married or even folks just living together." This apparently holds true "regardless of socio-economic status, education and poverty, where people were born or their ethnicity."
Tim Challies links to The Soul Mate Solution, a Christianity Today article that argues that soul mates are made, not born.
Another therapist gives his opinion on what makes a happy marriage. There's something like this in the news every week, so I don't often link to them, but this one's actually pretty good.
When you really appreciate your wife, when think she's the best wife in the world, it's important to tell her so. It's also kind of cool when you can tell the world too.
