Before most people knew my husband and I were thinking of getting married, I told one of my family friends, who had known him for years (and had also been married for years). She got so happy, talked about what a great decision it was and said “he will take care of you.” At the…
Category: Future Spouse
Praying for your future spouse: Inlaws
Inlaws: A friend of mine always used to tell me that she wanted to marry a man who was an orphan because she didn’t want to deal with mother-in-law issues. I can’t say that I ever felt that way, but I think I always wanted a mother-in-law that we were relatively similar and that the…
Praying for your future spouse: Getting Advice
Getting advice: There are some people that are miserable in their marriages, and then there are some people that are just so ecstatically happy in their marriages. There are some people that have had horrible relationships and expect all their relationships to be happy, and there are some people that have had great relationships, and…
Praying for your future spouse: Sacrifice
My super smart cousin once told me that there is a reward for every sacrifice. That really stood out to me, because sometimes when you need to sacrifice you wonder if it is worth it. You wonder if you will ever get a benefit from the sacrifice, you wonder if you will always be suffering……
Praying for your future spouse: Trust
Trust: It’s not easy to trust people, in fact it’s really hard to trust people. Because many people conditionally accept you, so if they see who you really are, they may just dump you like hot akara. And then there are the people that you tell them your innermost secrets and the next thing you…