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How to Have a Happy Marriage
divorce yourself from yourself! Think about that one for a
while. You still must live with yourself.
Divorce can exact a great and long-lasting emotional and
physical toll. Those who divorce are experiencing higher rates
of mental disorders, heart disease, cancer, high blood pres–
sure and cirrhosis of the liver than those who tough
it
out.
But
why
even tough
it
out
when there is still a better
solution?
Why You Should Stay
They say it takes two to
make a marriage, but we say
it
takes only one
to
save a
marriage!
If
you stay, the
chances are great that you
can save your marriage in
spite of what your mate does
or does not do.
Two wrongs do not
make a
right,
but one right
can make a marriage. Let us
As frustrated
and hopeless as you
may feel right now,
with the help of God,
your marriage can be
happier than you
dreamed possible.
get some marriage counseling from the apostle Paul.
"If
any
brother has a wife who does not believe, and she is willing
to live with him, let him not divorce her" (I Cor. 7:12,
New
King
James).
Even the children in such families, Paul says
in verse 14, are benefited when one mate is striving to live
rightly even if the other doesn't yet see the importance of
doing so.
The mate who is striving to do what is right has a special
influence over the mate. How? By his or her positive actions.
If you do what is right in marriage, it influences your mate
positively.
It
is possible for God to use your example
to
tum
your mate around. But if you leave there is no hope!
So stay, and let the power of your example tum your
marriage around. The apostle Peter said that " , .. even if
some do not obey the word, they, without a word, may be won
by the conduct of their wives {or husbands), when they ob–
serve your chaste conduct accompanied by fear" (I Pet. 3:1-2).
You can tum that lemon into the sweetest lemonade you