Do you want to save your marriage, rekindle romance, or keep your relationship healthy?
I’ve got good news for you. You can change your marriage with just you and God.
“But Joyce, “you say, “Doesn’t a marriage take two people working on it?”
Yes, you’re right. But it’s also true you can’t make anyone else change.
Here’s the good news!
You can create an atmosphere in your relationship with your husband that makes him want to change.
The Bible puts it this way,
“Do to others whatever you would like them to do to you.” Mathew 7:12 NLT
When you’re ready to do what you can for your marriage and trust God for the rest, I’ve got twenty ways you as a wife can improve your relationship with the man you love.
These 20 tips from the 12 Keys for Marriage Success book and course will get you started creating the relationship you want.
20 Tips for a Happy Marriage
- Choose an attitude of happiness – The cruelest thing a wife can do to a husband is to never be happy. And don’t forget, being happy is more an attitude than a reality. Dr. Laura Schlessinger
- Change yourself and stop trying to fix him – Leave your husband with God. Besides, God has more ability to make a miraculous transformation in your loved one than you ever will.
- Tell him why you love him – Find a pretty notecard and write one reason you love your husband for each year you’ve been married. Read your love note to your husband and tell him you’re committed to him for life. Celebrate!
- Don’t tear your marriage apart – Glue two pieces of paper together. Once they dry, try to pull them apart. You will find bits of one piece of paper stuck to the other. The two connect in a way that does not separate without tearing both apart.
- Do not tolerate abuse – Don’t put up with any actions which are illegal, immoral, or physically or sexually abusive. If you or your children are in physical danger, seek shelter immediately.
- Create a budget and plan your lives – Choose what you will do with your life and how you will use your time. Dave Ramsey, a Christian financial expert, has great tips and tools available.
- Don’t let others decide for you – Advice from favored mentors provides you with their experience and wisdom, but you need to arrive at the best conclusions for you and your husband.
- Spend time with your girlfriends – Plan time to enjoy a good chat with your girlfriends and get caught up on the latest happenings. It also strengthens your connection with your man when he does an activity with the guys.
- Draw closer to God, and you get closer to your husband – A triangle helps us understand the connection between God and us in our marriages. When we move towards God and His love, we know how to love our husbands better.
- Pray together and avoid divorce – The Chicago Catholic magazine article reported that the divorce rate is only one in 1,105 marriages among couples who practice an active prayer life!
- Make the tough decisions – And again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made. ~Robert H. Schuler
- Replace negative thoughts with the truth – When you’re assaulted with negative thoughts, capture them in a small notebook. Write “What I Thought” on one page, and on the opposite page write, “What God Thinks.” Keep repeating the process.
- Make your marriage a priority – Couples who won’t make their relationship a priority find their married life filled with boredom, frustration, anger, and resentment. Decide today to place your mate ahead of the children.
- Be courteous – Be polite to your man and treat him as nice as you do your friends
- Change yourself and he’ll want to act differently -When you adjust your behavior, your husband will modify his actions. He won’t change because you nagged and cajoled, but as a response to the changes you make
- Figure out how to work together – Above all, clothe yourselves with love, which binds us all together in perfect harmony. ~Colossians 3:14
- Share your problems with only a few – Discuss your marital problems with only a few people you trust.
- Remember, God is the ultimate provider of our needs – If God provided for our needs through my husband’s job, then God, not the military, brought me to this strange place. I could trust God to help me adjust to the changes in my life.
- Trust God to lead you where He wants you to go – God takes full responsibility for all He asks you to handle and promises to work all circumstances for your good. Follow and trust God, not your hubby, to make things work out well
- Chose to forgive – I decided to forgive my husband just like I wanted him to forgive all the unkind words I’d ever said. I decided to forget the incident and show my hubby how much I loved him without bringing the incident up again
The online self-paced 12 Keys for Marriage Success course shows you how to apply biblical principles in your marriage.
The course includes 12 videos, 12 Study guides, a PDF copy of 12 Keys for Marriage Success, and more!
Work at your own pace and watch your relationship with your hubby improve!
Start today!
