COMPANIONSHIP: A SOUL TIE TO A SUCCESSFUL MARRIAGE
Bisi Adewale
Companionship means a friendly and comfortable relationship with someone. Many couples are traditional ‘husband’ and ‘wife’, they are not friends. They are ‘married bachelors and spinsters’, not companion. They are married but not comfortable with each other.
HOW TO BUILD COMPANIONSHIP IN MARRIAGE
- Accept your spouse as he or she is.
- Seek to understand and accept God’s view of marriage
- Take pleasure in the company of each other.
- Create time to be together
- Be proud of each other in the public
- Doing things together; Play, pray, plan, bath, travel, sleep and eat together
- Have respect for your marriage vows
- Appreciate each other’s uniqueness
- Apologize when you are wrong
- Cultivate the habit of touching your spouse when you are talking together.
- Express love verbally and in concrete terms like giving gifts.
- Celebrate special days like birthday and wedding anniversary day.
- Complement each other (1 Pet. 3:8).
- Never deny each other sexual intercourse.
- Cut down outings and create time to be at home together.
- Be a good listener.
- Place value on your spouse.
- Create time to fellowship together.
- Read good marriage books together (Prov. 23:23).
- Attend marriage seminars together.
- Direct all your sexual fantasies and desires towards your spouse.
- Use positive words. Never abuse, blame, criticizes or condemn. (1 Pet 2:1).
- Think positively about things together.
- Enjoy your stay together.
- Be humorous; crack jokes and laugh. Let God enjoy your home.
- Hug generously.
© Bisi Adewale 2020
