It doesn’t end at the wedding. The dress comes off and life starts. It’s a marriage, not a perfect day. I will let these ladies explain:
Sarah’s Daughter – Honor Him through the Storms
Sunshine Mary – What to do When Your Husband is Injured or Ill
Morticia’s Musings – Bringing Sexy Back
The Lady I Can’t Explain – Supporting Your Husband Through Extended Unemployment Part I and Part II
An excerpt from songtwoeleven’s Supporting Your Husband Through Extended Unemployment Part II:
I am capable of being just as sinful as my husband can be. I might “appear” less sinful on the outside by looking pretty and “having it together” in front of others, but on the inside, with a contentious, resentful, selfish heart – and a prideful, arrogant, self-righteous attitude…I am as sinful as a drunkard. Or a slothful, lazy person. You name it, I’m capable of it. There is no room for self-righteousness, ladies. Kill it before it kills your marriage.
Women have a nasty habit of thinking that because our sins might not be as overt as mens’ that we are somehow less sinful. This is patently untrue. Sin is not just what we do but what we fail to do. Stop and think for a moment what goes through your head when your angry at your husband, what you may have said to your friends, what you have done out of anger and what you have told yourself you must not do out of anger. What have you withheld that was desperately needed?
We are not better than men, our wrongs are not somehow less. They are merely different. They are absolutely damaging to those around us, we simply do not let ourselves see it.
Open your eyes. By God it hurts, but if you don’t, what will follow is much, much worse.
Thank you for the linkage!
Thank you so much. (smiles)
“The dress comes off and life starts.” – You need to write a country song around this sentence!
Thanks. Stingray!
i’m very much aware of how much a work is vital to keep a marriage running. you are one of the few “good one’s” out there. trust me, woman like you and SSM are few and far between.
Strong men were few and far between as well and their numbers are increasing. I really hope that this will bring back *good* women.
Thank you for the compliment, Danny.
anytime pook-sicle.
Do you have an email I can email you at? I have a question that involves my husband that I really need your help on.
~Anastasiya
Stingray on the rocks at gmail dot com.
Thanks!
Stingray,
You wrote this post just for me, didn’t you?
I thank you.
I have been working my way through this list.
Of course I have no experience of what these ladies are talking about, yet, but I am ever so grateful I have heard their stories, as I know it will be a lantern for me in the unlit path we call marriage.
God bless you for helping to prepare me for marriage in a way I never imagined.
Spacetraveller,
I’m glad to hear that my little blog has helped you. It’s is very nice to hear and I thank you for saying so.
We have been very blessed to not have to go through anything like these ladies did, as well. But it is important for people to know that marriage is not happily ever after. Marriage has ups and down just like anything in life. The thing people seem to forget it that the downs make the happy times so much better. There will be hard times. Work through them to the best of your ability and then enjoy the good times with all you have.