I have not been following this post so forgive me if I repeat anything since I can't read all the replies. Marriage is not really under threat even with the divorce rates rising and people 'staying in bad marriages'. There is a psychologist who says that there are never really new problems it is just that the old problems mutating....kitambo guys used to tolerate each other nowadays guys are liberal....two sides of a coin....
Anyway I think the reason someone comes in really matters...most guys get married for the wrong reasons....sijui the lady is pregnant so they are getting married for the kid...sijui someone is too old and time is catching up e.t.c. e.t.c. Then we are at the era of instant gratification,so guys can't persevere sorting out issues with their spouses culminating into a lot of drama.
A guy's circle of friends is also really important and that's why some guys will tell you that marriage is great while others will say that there is no
real love
I surround myself with guys with very very healthy,happy marriages where you can even feel the love from a distance...I also enjoy true and real love ....
This is like a whole topic but I will just finish by quoting Ephesians 5
Wives and Husbands
22Wives,submit to your husbands as to the Lord. 23For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church,his body,of which he is the Savior. 24Now as the church submits to Christ,so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.
25Husbands,love your wives,just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her 26to make her holy,cleansing[b] her by the washing with water through the word,27and to present her to himself as a radiant church,without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish,but holy and blameless. 28In this same way,husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. 29After all,no one ever hated his own body,but he feeds and cares for it,just as Christ does the church— 30for we are members of his body. 31'For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife,and the two will become one flesh.'c] 32This is a profound mystery—but I am talking about Christ and the church. 33However,each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself,and the wife must respect her husband.
Acts 2:38: 38Peter replied,'Repent and be baptized,every one of you,in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins. And you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
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