MARRIAGE MATTERS NEWSLETTERS
Monday 9th September 2024
Bridging the gap in your marital relationship refers to striving to close or reduce the emotional distance which is caused by conflicts, offenses and disappointments between husband and wife. Such gaps generally reflect negatively on our communication with one another, it may affect the way we relate, it may also reflect on the things we do for and with one another.
Some of the implications of gaps in your marital relationship are as follows;
It gives room for external factors to operate in the home. For instance, when there are gaps, you may start revealing things that are supposed to be secret between you and your spouse to others in the process of discussion.
The second thing is that the longer you keep from bridging the gap, the more it keeps getting wider. That is why the Bible says that though you may be angry, it becomes a sin when you allow it to drag beyond sunset (Eph.4:26)
Thirdly, things start getting more and complicated because the gap keep affecting other areas of family life. The more you keep the gap open, the greater the tendency for other things to happen that might keep widening the gap. For instance, there may be the tendency to remember earlier offenses or think of strategies to deal with your partner for the offense committed once you keep the gap open.
You may reduce the gap in your marital relationship by doing the following;
⁃ Humble Yourself.
⁃ Forgive Offenses.
⁃ Restrain Yourself From Retaliation.
⁃ Being Readyto Apologize and Accept Apologies.
⁃ Remembering Always tha Marriage is Beyond the Two of You.
⁃ Restraining Yourself From Showing How Powerful You Are.
⁃ Asking Yourself What God Would Expect You To Do. CONCLUSION.
Bridging up the gap in your marital relationship becomes a must for you if you are determined to make your relationship a loving one and your home a pleasant place to be. It may sometimes cost you your pride, but there is nothing that is too much for you to sacrifice to achieve it.
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Bridging the gap in your marital relationship refers to striving to close or reduce the emotional distance which is caused by conflicts, offenses and disappointments between husband and wife…
