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Does your marriage need healing? Don't give up too easily. There's hope!

Contrary to belief, the grass is not always greener on the other side. Think about it. When you switch partners, you're just taking on a different person with a different set of problems. And if there's no better communication with this person, than there was with the last, you have solved nothing. Divorce is not something that should be decided on quickly. Lives are at stake and little hearts don't forget that easily. The damage and scars for all involved, can last for years, so this is nothing to take lightly. But some treat it as if it's like taking off one hat and replacing it with a new one. It don't work that way. Many lives have been changed. Everything changes. And if you have children and you're not prepared to have to deal with your ex, visitation and all, for years to come, you've just made your life even more miserable. I think it's scars children for life and it takes away their childhood and innocence.

There's no room for pride here. Forgiveness is such a healing thing. And God says to forgive.

Communication and trust are key, and need to be restored. That doesn't happen overnight. It's not too late. I think marriages are savable, myself, but it will take both of you working at it. That doesn't mean working on it for a few weeks and then giving up because you don't see results yet. I hope you'll think about counseling for both of you together. And if he or she won't go, then you should go and get a different perspective on what you could do to improve this situation. I think we should do everything possible to save a marriage, unless that person is abusing you. I don't believe God would want you to lose your health or take beatings. If this is the case, I confidently say, it's time to get away and move on. However, some these days just want to give up immediately, without even trying. This is not love. This is copping out. Just looking for an excuse to leave anyway.

Sometimes we can't see clearly when we're right in the middle of things and other ideas can be a plus. I can think of many things you could do to restore your marriage and light that fire again. This is a matter that needs to be thought through very carefully, because it's not only you two, that would be divorcing. This would affect both of your families, children, and so many more things.

Relationship problems are hardly a rarity, that have resulted in divorce, broken homes, mental issues, children growing up with self esteem problems and more. All are affected in one way or another, and not just for a few days, but for years to come. It changes everything, so handle this wisely and think a long time before you act.

Satan’s job has always been to steal to kill and destroy and distorting the image of what marriage really is. Most marriage vows made between couples are just meaningless or not taken with the seriousness that they deserve. The good news is that Jesus can restore your marriage and every area of your life.

Fireproof may be one of the best movies I could recommend to you. This movie tells the story of a young couple, Caleb and Catherine that are on the verge of a divorce after a number of years of marriage. Caleb seems so absorbed in his career as a fireman and selfish ambitions that he neglects to take good care of Catherine.

Catherine on the other hand, spends a lot of time at her job as well and puts herself in a position of compromise in the midst of their marital problems. Their marriage seems headed towards divorce as they hit a point of no return. That is until Caleb’s dad intercepts and takes his son Caleb through a journey that could transform their marriage.

Do you find yourself in a similar position today? A lot of relationship questions may be running through your mind, which you have no answer to. The answers to those questions are found in the Word of God. A relationship or marriage centred on God, will survive any fire or storm that comes its way.

This is a movie that I highly recommend because it will change your life. I hope you will watch the whole movie. Healthy relationships are still possible in this crazy world that we live in today, even though the enemy has lied to us to cause to think otherwise. Remember his main objective is to steal, kill and destroy, but Jesus came to give you life in abundance. I believe it is worth watching this movie. In what little time it takes to watch this movie, the effects could change your whole life for the better, so I think it's well worth your time. I believe you can make your marriage so happy again. I believe you can rekindle that spark that made you want to marry each other in the first place. Nothing is impossible with God. You can watch that movie on Netflix. It has saved many a marriage, I know that. If you truly love someone, you don't give up on them. You do everything in your power to make it work. Not until you've done your best, can you say you tried.

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This is beautifully said and true LadyGrace

I would add also that emotional abuse, or someone being insane, can be as damaging as physical abuse

The first time I left my husband my mum and sister had to come and get me. I was so sick I could barely walk. He would move furniture and bang things in the night to keep me awake, but move it back by the morning. The dishes he had volunteered to do the previous night still in the sink

He dug up the back garden

I would come home from work to find out that he'd removed my beloved books

He would sand over new paint jobs I had spent hours doing

He'd pounce on me demanding to know what the hell I was doing if the children made a noise

He would promise, fail to deliver then blame me and "lack of sleep"

He didn't see me as an adult equal. His psychiatrist actually rebuked him "that is your wife. Not a dog."

It is always a little bitter to hear "it takes two" when it sounds like it comes from this place or normalcy that you never shared

Theoretically, I may have been a better advocate for myself if I was the woman I am now, but then on the other hand not when every expression of need was seen as an attack on him and met with rage and deemed worthy of revenge

He moved out of his 3 bedroom house recently and bought a caravan for the backyard - because he can't sleep in the same house as my son

He is disturbed, can't go back to sleep, goes loopy... so the caravan

Thank God I thought, for showing me it wasn't me. I couldn't breathe. I really couldn't breathe.

LadyGrace · 70-79
@SW-User I love you so much. Your story is my story. Your hurt and pain, is my hurt and pain. I believe every word you said because we both lived it and we know it is the truth. I believe God put us together as Christian sisters so we could heal together. We've come so far praise God and thanks be to Him, but I believe we still have healing that perhaps we've not been ready to face or even want to think about again. I believe it takes a long time to heal a heart that has been betrayed, forsaken, abandoned, and broken. Your testimony brought tears to my eyes. I feel every bit of your pain. And because I love you as your sister in Christ, I gladly hear and share your pain with you.

But it was never that you weren't that important, so much as the fact he completely lacked the capacity to properly value you.

That is true. Some people just don't know how to love. Narcissists certainly don't know how to love. Nor some abused people. But I think if I had been important to him, he would have fought for our marriage. Sad thing is, he is a Christian. But all he grew up with in his household, was mom and dad always screaming at each other, each and every day, and then they would go to church on Sunday. They saw it as normal. The impression they left on their children scarred them. So he thought that was normal too. His problem was that he was selfish. There was no communication and if there's no communication there's no relationship. He married me and just left me alone. Left me alone. Never doing anything with me or taking me places or showing me real love. He yelled at me 24/7 until I started having seizures I was so upset. I had no one. Absolutely no one to hold me or love me. And here I am sobbing about it still. It just hurts so much when you've tried so hard and you loved them so much and they were just emotionally unavailable. Why did he even get married if he wasn't going to love me like a wife should be treated? All those many many years, I never even had a hug. But when he wanted to please his stupid self, then he knew me. We did have the best sex, but after that was over he would just ignore me as usual. I could do nothing right in his eyes. In the crazy thing is, it was his family that showed me so much love, way more than him, and led me to Christ. I didn't accept Jesus as my Savior right away. Not for years to come because I couldn't understand it and what it was all about. But one day when I was alone in my mobile home, very late at night, I cried out to God and asked him to save me. I wasn't sure if he heard me at first. In fact, I said my peace to him and laid down to die. But to my great surprise, I woke up in the morning, not on the other side, and I knew Jesus had heard my prayers because I felt the Holy Spirit In my heart, even though I never knew that could happen or even what that was about at that time. There was no doubt about it. Not only did God hear my prayer, he reached down and touched me as I slept and when I woke up in the morning, there was no mistaking his spirit he placed inside of me and I was brand new in Christ. We were one in the Spirit. That happened on July 21st, 1973. That's my spiritual birth date and I'll never forget it, nor the promise I made to God.
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@LadyGrace yes, Lady Grace you weren't that important to him. 💔 What I meant was that this wasn't about you. He would've lacked this capacity with anyone. Or more specifically, any woman.

He wasn't a husband to you. *hug*

I feel it too.
LadyGrace · 70-79
@SW-User Absolutely. That's exactly what I wanted to say. I know that very well. It was not about me at all. And it was never our fault. I believe we both tried our dead best to be the best wife we could be. I know we did. So much so that we totally lost ourselves in the process. They taught us how to be people pleasers and that will never happen again. People should never be afraid to act or say what they want. I'm so sorry you had to go through that. Yet at the same time it made us better people with better understanding. And when you know better, you do better. 🤗 The experience really didn't turn me bitter. It just made me better and more understanding of what I want and do not want in my life. Had I married again, I would never have taken that out on my new husband or compared him to my ex, that just wouldn't be fair.

 
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