Well, I really hope you all were able to get some good advice and were encouraged from my writings thus far, this Marriage Series in particular! I know my heart was spoken to from these writings! If you are married, or aren't married I hope and pray the message of love and respect was loud and clear for you all. I do not know what is in store for your future, but I hope the words I wrote in this series were very helpful! As mentioned before, I did get a few responses from people with their personal definition of love and respect. Please take a look at them! Thanks to all who contributed their responses!
-NM
Men are given the responsibility of protection and provision for women. In Genesis, the man is given the "curse" of working and toiling all the days of his life while the woman will be having great childbirth pains. Being the provider of the family, the man commands respect from the woman as much as the woman commands respect from the man when it comes to domestic issues. A man feels respected by a woman when he feels loved and cared for. The wife is given the charge to love her husband and vice versa in Ephesians 5:22-33. Respect does not mean blind submission or deference to a husband, especially if the husband is clearly not following God's will. It means that love is being doled out to the husband, even during times when it is not convenient to do so.
- BK
There is no respect without communication. It is the lynchpin of ALL relationships. She communicates her thoughts - either critical or praising - and expects the same from me....in the end respect is doled out as well as received in equal portions. Without mutual communication how can you know who your other is? And if you don't know your partner &
vice versa, how can there be true respect?
vice versa, how can there be true respect?
-RW
Behind every great man is an admiring wife. Something in a man needs the respect of his wife. He thrives and grows toward Godliness when his need is fulfilled. God
emphatically,says, “The wife must see to it that she respects her husband” (Ephesians 5:33 NASB). Even God Deals with Men Through Respect Look at Simon.The guy was flip-flopping, not-sure-of-himself, run-when-the-heat-is-on kind of a guy. This is the one who told Jesus he would willingly die with him, yet fled when Jesus was arrested and three times denied that he even knew Jesus. But when Jesus first met him He said, “Simon, from now on you will be called Peter—the rock!” And sure enough, Peter went on to be a bold and compelling witness of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. God knows that the key to unlocking the potential in a man is to treat that man with unconditional respect.
-JV
To me, respect depends a lot on how a wife reacts to things a husband does for the wife or for family. Like if Husbands make important decisions, we need your suggestion, not decision. This is more important when we are in public with other people. Like if a husband does something like cook, husbands want appreciation. If Husbands tell wives to do something important, we need wives to do it and not complain about it. If wives have a better suggestion bring it up calmly and with love. Basically, husbands need wives to assume that what we do is in our (you and me) best interest and that we do it in God's will and guidance. Wives have to let husbands be in control and lead because God is leading us.
-TH
I'm divorced... But I'd say it's giving the other person the time and attention that I'd want.
-BP
Love first off is mutual respect, its unconditional at ALL times
-MP
True love in the context of marriage means a husband and a wife's equally unconditional respect, trust, forgiveness, and self-denial. Truly happy marriages have this most of the time, but because of our fallible nature, cannot have it 100% of the time. Something within in us, our sinful nature keeps us from attaining this perfection because we are fearful - fearful of getting hurt, disappointed, mislead... I guess this perfect love is modeled after Jesus' perfect love for us.
-NM
• Unconditional support, acceptance and commitment
• Being best friends
• Being able to be yourself around the other person all the time
• Putting my husband and kids before anything and anyone else
• Taking care of one another when one is sick
• Being able to trust one another
• When the other person makes you a better person
• Being able to really forgive mistakes
• Being able to laugh and have fun
• Wanting to do things just to make the other person happy
• The meaning of life
-CC
I believe in that saying " love is patient, love is kind....
-SB
Idk. I guess I would just say 2 make ur husband happy by doin things 4 him and b there 4 him
-TL
I think Love is friendship at its deepest level.
Some days its easy to love each other, some days it takes work, but always it's worth it. It's knowing that no matter what life throws your way, you'll never have to face it alone. True love is forever....it changes over time, but none the less continues to grow
Awesome Series!
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