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Chapter Four
WHEN
MARRIAGES GO
SOUR–
ATTITUDES THAT
SWEETEN
I
s
YOUR
marriage as happy as you want
it
to
be? Here are
vital ways
to
improve and heal damaged relationships
between mates!
God established immutable spiritual laws that,
if
obeyed,
will produce happiness and love in marriage as in all human
relationships. Break these dynamic living laws and we guar–
antee marital unhappiness and misery.
The Husband-Wife Relationship
God created humans male and female. And for an incred–
ible transcendent potential, little realized. He created woman
to
be a helper and companion to man (Gen. 2:18). Few realize
today the Almighty Creator ordained
that
man should be the
head of the home and properly lead his wife. But emphati–
cally not as an overbearing master.
It
is
vital
to
understand two important facets of the
husband-wife relationship. One, a husband, as captain of a
two-person team, must call the signals. But, on the other
hand, there must be teamwork. Where opinions, ideas and
preferences differ they must be wisely, lovingly discussed on
a basis of equality. For a husband and wife are, indeed, heirs
together of the grace and kingdom of God (I Pet. 3:7).
Damaged marital relations cannot be restored if marriage
partners forget the structure of government God ordained in