You may have been a starry-eyed lover where everything your spouse did, said, and touched seemed like magic. But now, several years in — or several decades in — it seems that marriage has gotten harder. It’s harder to communicate, you don’t seem to have the emotional bandwidth to be with one another, and you may have become increasingly disconnected as you parent children together. Or, even if you’re not struggling, you’ve been there or you may be hearing about friends whose wedding you were in are now getting a divorce. Marriage — like any relationship — ebbs and flows in terms of emotion, satisfaction, connectedness, and growth. For most of us, Christ continues to heal past hurts, bring reconciliation and new growth in our marriages. But it’s easy to let the cares of today harm our marriage of the future. Here are a few warning signs that you need to focus some intentional time, care, love, and nurture on your marriage:
