It's no surprise their relationship has grown stale and strained. Building healthy, growing and intimate marriages at the dawn of the third millennium is a monumental but essential task. Much energy, in dependance on the Spirit of God, must be diligently employed to counteract and overcome the independent, narcissistic, uncommitted culture of the late 1990s that is so viciously tearing our homes apart limb by limb. This is a war well worth fighting, for it deeply affects those people who are closest to our hearts. Healthy marriages begin with biblical, practical relationship instruction we give to our teens.
Healthy marriages require strenuous preparation during engagement.
At no time in life is a person more motivated to work hard on relational skills than in those few precious months just prior to marriage. Healthy marriages need extra encouragement during the parenting years. Healthy marriages still need continual attention in the empty nest years. Cars need regular maintenance. Bodies need physical checkups.