Sometimes life gets hard. And having a good, strong marriage can help you through the hard times. At other times, it seems that your marriage is what is making life so hard.
So what do you do when it seems like life and marriage aren’t turning out the way you expected it to despite your best efforts?
Here are some things you can do to help improve your attitudes and make life more pleasant for yourself, for your husband and for your whole family:
- Adjust your expectations.
- Accept that some things about your mate may never change.
- Take on the leadership role (e.g. spiritual leader) if you have to even if you wish your husband would take it on.
- Encourage your husband to read the same books about marriage, relationships, parenting, family, etc. that you are reading so that the two of you are on the same page. Pun intended.
- Talk to your husband about how you are feeling in a non-threatening, non-accusing way.
- Pray for God to help you to see your husband the way He sees him. And love him the way God does.
Please watch the scope I did about this topic here:
"Oh that God would give every mother a vision of the glory and splendor of the work that is given to her when a babe is placed in her bosom to be nursed and trained! Could she have but one glimpse in to the future of that life as it reaches on into eternity; could she look into its soul to see its possibilities; could she be made to understand her own personal responsibility for the training of this child, for the development of its life, and for its destiny,--she would see that in all God's world there is no other work so noble and so worthy of her best powers, and she would commit to no other's hands the sacred and holy trust given to her." -JR Miller
