Try our new email daily devotional. Life today is WAY too busy. Take some time to STOP and look around . The other day I read some statistics on the high percentage of marriages that end in divorce. And thought of the countless others that are unhappy, frustrated relationships, not ending in divorce but inadequately meeting the needs of the partners.
Lack of communication seems to be one of the prime causes of marriage breakdown.
Of course it always takes two to make or break a relationship, but something I read the other day casts a little light on one small area of this business of communicating with one's spouse. Proverbs chapter 31 speaks of the qualities of a good wife. The entire chapter can be a challenge to any wife and mother. How often have I sat with other women and the topic has turned to husbands. One may hear anything from derogatory remarks, to intimacies shared, to general complaints such as whose husband leaves his socks lying where.