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day236<br />
i don’t love my husband anymore<br />
“Haven’t you<br />
read,” he replied,<br />
“that at the<br />
beginning the<br />
Creator ‘made<br />
them male and<br />
female,’ and said,<br />
‘for this reason a<br />
man will leave his<br />
father and mother<br />
and be united to<br />
his wife, and the<br />
two will become<br />
one flesh’? so<br />
they are no longer<br />
two, but one flesh.<br />
Therefore what<br />
god has joined<br />
together, let no<br />
one separate.”<br />
Matthew 19:4 – 6<br />
More Verses<br />
to explore:<br />
Exodus 20:17<br />
Proverbs 5:28<br />
Proverbs 20:16<br />
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by Lysa TerKeursT<br />
My friend’s words saddened me. She said she was tired of her husband<br />
and was leaving him for the man of her dreams. I was shocked.<br />
I had been in their wedding and heard their lifetime promises<br />
to each other. We had celebrated their anniversaries, births and the<br />
joys of life together.<br />
While their relationship wasn’t perfect, they did love each other.<br />
But something had broken in their relationship and neither knew<br />
how to fix it. It led to a stale quietness that seeped into their home<br />
and made each feel lonely and isolated.<br />
He had grown distant. She had grown frustrated. Life was busy,<br />
finances stressful and they stopped making time for each other.<br />
Then she met an attentive, financially secure man who seemed to<br />
be the answer to all of her unmet longings.<br />
She traded her old life for the thrill of something new . . . the lure<br />
of something she perceived would be better.<br />
Just two years later I ran into her and was stunned by her confession.<br />
With tears in her eyes, she admitted that fairy tales don’t<br />
exist. Every relationship feels exhilarating at the beginning but then<br />
takes hard work to thrive. When I asked her to tell me about her new<br />
husband, she said, “Well, he’s hairy.”<br />
What?<br />
What did she just say? My mind was spinning. Of all the descriptions<br />
and romantic terms I expected her to use, “hairy” was not<br />
on the list. How revealing that the once irresistible man she traded<br />
everything for had been reduced to one word: hairy!<br />
I’m convinced that in marriage the grass isn’t greener on the<br />
other side. The grass is greener where you water and fertilize it.<br />
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