No one plans on ending up in divorce court. No one plans to end up getting a divorce. Yet for 50% of the couples that get married, that is exactly what happens. What happened to the love? Life is not about finding someone to love you with their love, but finding someone to love with God’s love. Loving each other with God’s kind of love means never giving up, always persevering, and therefore never-failing.

Our tendency is to pick and choose which bible verses we want to obey, and in so doing we adopt our own guardrails for this are of our lives. Yet operating outside God’s guardrails always does damage to our relationships. Operating inside God’s guardrails is the path to safety and health!

“I’m not getting it” and by IT, we meant needs. As in, “I’m not getting my needs met!” Although many of us might feel this way, we learned to seek to meet needs before seeking to have needs met. Ask yourself questions like, “Have I truly listened to my spouse today?” Or, “How can I be a better friend to my spouse today?”