A marriage can't exist without it. Without forgiveness, sin will destroy a marriage. Forgiveness is daily renewal. It's like your blood-it keeps pumping through your body, picking up fresh oxygen and renewing every cell. If that renewal stops, death begins.
Forgiveness is a marriage's lifeblood.
Trust and hope grow in spurts. It's like your relationship with God. From then on, you understand your status as a person forgiven by God. She had so much to forgive me for and so much change to trust me for, her forgiveness was an obvious work of God's grace. That crisis shines on the rest of our marriage.