Today we continue our series on – Practical Steps To A Deeper Friendship With Your Spouse. Marriage, like any other friendship, begins with areas of commonality, but the stresses of our day to day life like – children, work, finances, illness, caring for elderly parents, careers, the home etc – can tax the union and cause it to grow apart. It is your responsibility to take steps that will build friendship in your marriage.
4. Accountability and Mutual Respect
It is important you realise that as a married person you’re accountable and should have mutual respect for your spouse in all things. In building a deeper friendship, areas of sexuality, finances, and relationships, should be priorities.
Hear this – “My wife knows everything about my brokenness. I have gone to her first in difficult situations. There’s a small circle of people who know me and know my depravity. My wife is in that circle. Having that transparency has given me strength, clarity, and tremendous freedom.” —George
Any marriage were accountability and mutual respect is one sided either towards the man or woman, that marriage is headed for the rocks if nothing is urgently done to save it. Learn to respect your spouse and be accountable to him/her, whether that person has become all you desired or not and also stop comparing your spouse with your boss in the office, with your pastor in church or with any other person you admire, those people cannot be your spouse. Do not allow anything influence the level of accountability and mutual respect you share with your spouse, let it be total without reservations.
Learn to appreciate what you have in your spouse.
Have a Grace filled day – Good News awaits you.
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Last modified: May 21, 2016
