The only course on marriage our children will take is the one in their home

I came across an interesting book from my past that is talking about your relationship with your spouse. I just want to share a few paragraphs from that book that I thought could benefit all of us.

One point the author made was that the husband should love his wife 100 percent and the wife should be 100 percent submissive to her husband. In other words, as the husband loves his wife, she is willing to be submissive to him. As the wife submits to her husband, his love for her will surely grow.

What kind of love should a husband bring?... a strong, stable, mental attitude, always seeking nothing but the highest good for the one he loves. It is a love expressed in word and action that motivates the one being loved to give of herself in return.

Submission is described as a free gift that springs up from within the wife like lifegiving water bubbling up from a fresh well, not something imposed through intimidation or other outside force.

What I gathered from this section is that when you both willingly give your best effort to one another, you both want to give everything you are supposed to (which is whatever the two of you have agreed on, not what society says). If these two attitudes of love and submission are ignored, diffuculty looms ahead.

Another thought that really stood out to me was this..."The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother. The home should be the most attractive place in the world to the children, and the mother should be the greatest attraction."

"Without a warm atmosphere in your home and marriage- an atmosphere of love, gererosity, and forgiveness- your children will not know how to love. The only person who knows how to love is the person who has been loved, who has seen love, who has experienced love. The Christian home is a laboratory in which the love of God is demonstrated."

The only way our children can grow up and have healthy relationships is if we teach them how....they are watching us even when we think they are not. It is never too late to have a healthy relationship with your spouse!! The only course on marriage our children will take is the one in their home. Applying heavenly principles to a marriage can produce a heaven on earth!!! I know I want that!