"This Jesus Creed is a summary of how to live the Christian life. We are to first love God, and second, love others as you love yourself. Love for God focuses on our spiritual life. Love for others focuses on our relational life, and love for self focuses on our physical and emotional well-being. As a couple, you can do your 'life checkups' when you look at this one verse and ask yourselves three questions".....
https://homeword.com/jims-blog/the-jesus-creed-and-your-marriage/#.XVXH0-hKiUk
"Look honestly at yourself and the overall context of your spouse’s life to figure out what the trigger points for his/her stress are. Then work through what needs to change–modify your own behavior, create some better systems to reduce trigger points, or start building up healthy coping mechanisms so that when stress comes it is properly dealt with".....
https://tolovehonorandvacuum.com/2019/07/help-stressed-spouse/
"Kindness and compassion are often desired and forgotten in the dailyness of marriage. Life gets busy. We may answer our spouse sharply. We don’t have the time or patience for their burdens because we have enough of our own. 'Just pull it together and keep moving!' is what our attitude expresses. Instead of building our marriage in little ways each day, we slowly dismantle the relationship we’re to cherish the most".....
https://www.buildyourmarriage.org/being-kind-and-compassionate-in-marriage/
"The most recent political campaign really did a number on civil political conversation—among friends, Facebook “friends,” family members, and even between husbands and wives. Many of us couldn’t wait for the election to be over, so some of the division and rancor could stop. But instead of a return to civil public discourse since the election, it seems to have gotten worse".....
https://shaunti.com/2019/07/how-to-avoid-painful-political-discussions-with-your-spouse/
