Will Love Keep You Together?
2/24/2008
What makes a marriage last? Will love keep you together? A newlywed couple usually believes that their marriage will work as long as they love each other and that’s really all there is to it. No wonder divorce is at the 50% rate today! Real, enduring love will keep a marriage going. But it makes a difference how you define “love”. Genuine, deep, married love is more than a feeling. Feelings are fickle. They change. And if a couple decides that they can base their marriage on how they “feel” about each other, the chances are they will not make it. Many long-married people will say that they haven’t always “felt” in love with their spouse. What these couples know is that you must keep love alive by doing things that create love. There are some essential ingredients for a loving, healthy, happy marriage. Love and intimacy don’t just happen. They have to be built and grown by the efforts that are put into the relationship. True romance isn’t about a Cinderella fairy tale with a knight on a white horse. It’s not candlelight and violins. Love is what draws a couple together, but it takes work and constant attention to the marriage for love to last. You may believe that only bad marriages have to be worked on. Not true. The best marriages are constantly being worked on! The best marriages take two people consistently investing time and energy into building real love through spiritual closeness, emotional empathy, and physical intimacy. These are the ingredients it takes to have a marriage relationship that will last through a lifetime. A lifetime - where true love does keep you together.
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