8 GREAT TOOLS TO MAINTAIN YOUR MARRIAGE
Bisi Adewale
Learn how to keep the home in the shape you want it to be. One major problem with marriage is maintenance. It is easier to start a marriage than to maintain it. And many people have failed at this point. So you need to learn to maintain your marriage and do it intentionally. Go all out to build a great marriage by keeping it as a good farmer will do to his productive trees.
Whoso keepeth the fig tree shall eat the fruit thereof: so he that waiteth on his master shall be honoured Proverbs 27:18 KJV.
You need certain tools to maintain your marriage.
1. Patience. You need to be patient if your marriage must stand tall and solid.
2. Forgiveness. The act of forgiveness also helps you to keep your marriage, since you and your spouse will offend each other one way or the other in your journey in life.
3. Prayer. Prayer is also needed; pray to protect, defend and rebuild your marriage.
4. Time together. Spend time together; you can’t build a marriage if you are not always together, bonding. Time meaningfully spent together will be a special gift to your marriage.
5. Respect. Learn to respect and honour each other; help each other’s self-esteem by giving each other great regard no matter what happens.
6. Selflessness. Be self less in your thinking, attitude, and habit and in everything you do. Marriage is not just about you, it is about both of you. Marriage is not I; it is we.
7. Responsibility. Be totally responsible at home to do your duty as a man or a woman. Be responsible, that is what it takes to maintain a marriage.
8. Fidelity. Be faithful to your spouse, don’t cheat on each other, whether in the area of money or sex; be totally open so that you can build trust.
© Bisi Adewale 2020
