How To Have A Healthy Marriage

Marriage is a promise and commitment of love betwen two people. It maybe a tough choice because it's a lifetime commitment, a promise that you will remain together and love each other until death. It's going to be tough but it will still depend on how you will handle it.

Here are some tips / guide on how to have a healthy marriage: 
 1. Make God the center of your lives. No matter how difficult your life will be as long as God is in the center of your lives, He will guide you to righteousness. Pray. Always pray.

 2. Communication. Always have an open communication with your husband / wife. Tell everything to your partner, as long as you don't keep anything from each other there will be no guilt feelings. Honesty will always make yourself relationship healthy.

3. Listen to each other. When you already have an open communication, you have to learn to listen. Sometimes your partner needs someone who can they open up to. An ear. A shock absorber. You don't have to give your comments all the time. Sometimes by just listening, it eases the pain and gives comfort.

 4. Teamwork. Now that you're married, you are considered as one. Husband and wife will work good together as a team. Two is better than one. Help each other.

 5. Be faithful to each other. This is a promise.

 6. Value each other's opinion. Eveyone is entitled for this. Once you hear her / him out. Be mindful of their opinion. You don't have to agree all the time but at least you know and you value each other's opinion.

 7. Value the needs of both parties. Know each other's needs. It may be physical, material, etc. Ask your husband or wife on what they want. It will always be great if you please one another. Or probably, at some point you know how you can reach her / his heart the fastest.

 8. Be kind with your words. Respect each other. 

9. Forgive not once but always. Pray for one another. You can't repeat the same mistakes over and over. Remember, if you make the same mistake, you hurt him / her. So, value one another. Make your mistake a lesson so you will not do it all over again.

 10. Trust each other.

 11. Always remember why you married him / her. How you fell in love with him / her. Treasure all good memories and forget all bad memories. Love him / her with all your heart and embrace all his / her flaws.

 Quoting this from the Bible will guide you along your married life. Always remind each other of these words:

 1 Corinthians 13:1-13 

 "Love"

 13:1 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3 If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.
 4 Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant5 or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful;6 it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth.
7 Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 8 Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away. 11 When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways.
12 For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known.
 13 So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.