Rekindle Your Love

Is your marriage missing the love, closeness, and passion it once had? Are things happening in your marriage that shouldn’t be happening? If so, don’t give up hope. There’s a lot that can be done to rescue your love life. Just know…..your marriage is worth rescuing. If you think back to the connection you first had with your spouse, you can probably remember what the magnet was that drew you together. You had strong desires, attractions, tenderness, and depth in your relationship. You experienced emotions, and laughter. Apart, you missed each other. And when you were together, it felt awesome just looking at each other. Over time though, the fire and the passions started to wane. You saw in your mate things you didn’t relate to, and slowly at first, you started to withdraw. Could it have been self-absorbing things, feelings of needing to be in control, manipulation, being irresponsible or even possibly feelings of wanting to hurt your spouse? All of this started to disengage the communication flow you may have had. The connection you once had, began to change and as time passed the good things that you used to do together as a loving couple went away. In your mind you started thinking negative things, and the more you hurt the more negative those thoughts became. Little problems turned into big ones, and your desires, intimacy and passions you once felt, started to wane. In their place came distance, alienation, loss of trust, conflicts, a growing numbness, and the fear that your marriage might dissolve. There have been countless numbers of marriages that have experienced the same things. Sadly, and something worth noting is that the devil works hardest to dissolve the marital union. Marriages in this condition keep on functioning as “couples” but they are now disengaging in many areas with each other. They will absorb themselves in things of their own interests. They will ignore their partner, but will only engage when it seems necessary to resolve minor problems. If you have come to the realization that you need help; help is out there through counseling, books, and the Bible. But the most important thing you can do is spend earnest time praying to the God of love; the creator of the marriage institution. He wants more than anything to see you happy again. Rescuing your marriage doesn’t mean taking a magic pill, but there is a proven system of looking at your life and at yourselves as a couple, and learning how to take the steps to make things better. You must unlearn those deep down inside feelings you’ve created within. It is possible that only one of you is more interested in rescuing your love life. But don’t give up if that’s the case. There are lots of things that can be done. You will need to maximize with your efforts. One of you can make a huge difference in the relationship by keeping a positive attitude (My thoughts added with Rescue Your Love Life, pp. 1-3). Sherry