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Choose to Improve Your Marriage The marriage vow is the most important promise that a man and woman will ever make to each other. It unites two people into one flesh within the mutual bond of love, care, and support until separated by death. Kigume Karuri Thursday, January 28, 2016 1

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Choose to Improve Your Marriage

The marriage vow is the most important promise that a man and woman will ever make

to each other.

It unites two people into one flesh within the mutual bond of love, care, and support until

separated by death.Kigume KaruriThursday, January 28, 2016 1

• Do you recall your marriage vows :

• To care, protect, and be faithful?

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• A marriage that is working well and moving along smoothly is difficult to maintain –relationships take a LOT of work.

• Trouble usually arises when spouses are careless and mean to each other and hurt intimacy that leads to neglect, leaving emotional needs unmet.

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• When relationships reach this point, it’s not uncommon for one or both spouses to seek satisfaction outside of the marital relationship to be free of conflict.

• If they agree to do whatever it takes to solve their problems and put forth the effort to make each other happy, then hurt feelings can be healed, love can be restored.

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• This will make their marriage flow smoothly again. And a bright future will be theirs to enjoy for years to come.

• Love is freedom. Is anything more exhilarating than being madly in love?

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• Who wouldn’t want to be with someone who cares for and meets their needs — especially their emotional needs?

• We are all looking for our emotional needs to be met.

• In marriage is where the greatest emotional needs are met.

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Love sets hearts free.

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• The most common causes of misunderstandings and disagreements within a marriage are the reactions of each partner to their spouse’s hurtful words and actions.

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• Being demanding and controlling can lead to domestic violence, emotional abuse, anger and certainly a loss of respect, which all result in pain and suffering. And a once warm and beautiful relationship is ruined, marriage becomes almost a battlefield.

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Marriage Questions That NEEED ANSWERS.

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• How does my spouse make me feel when we are together?

• Does he or she appreciate me and make me feel important?

• Does he or she make me feel safe and secure?

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• How much time do you and your spouse spend caring for each other?

• Remember your vows to care, protect, and be honest/faithful?

• Are those promises being kept in your marriage?

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• Caring means you seek to meet each other’s needs. Do you know the emotional needs of your spouse?

• Do they know yours?

• And what have you done lately to meet them?

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• Protecting means that you try to shield each other from hurt and pain.

• Do you?

• We are used to blaming each other. Do we accept our own blames or transfer them to our spouses?

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• And honesty is being able to communicate openly to each other your deepest joys and concerns.

• How comfortable are you in being open and honest with your spouse?

• Can they be open and honest with you?

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• Do you really know each other?

• Are you indeed in love or you are there for the sake of being seen to be in marriage?

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• Choose today to put the fireworks back into your marriage.

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• You are not coerced into marriage. You CHOSE to marry so you have to bear the consequences of your decision.

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• So CHOOSE today to make your marriage better.

• CHOOSE to move forward and do whatever it takes to enjoy a passion-filled marriage.

• CHOOSE to set your partner’s heart free today by loving them with ALL of your heart, mind, body and soul.

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• The key to have in your marriage is unconditional love.

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• No one can do it but you and you alone in your marriage.

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