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Video: Sex, Marriage and Other Fairytales

  • Posted on April 25, 2012 at 12:26 am

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Marriage today is struggling. Divorces, adultery, misconceptions, etc are plaguing not only the marriage itself but products of those marriages (my generation and the next). My hope in this poem is to highlight the most frequent and problematic issues marriages face today while also pointing to Jesus as the ultimate healer, redeemer, and restorer of every marriage. Whether single or married, my intention would be that this poem would allow you to look more deeply to Jesus to either better your current marriage, or prepare for your future marriage.

Some people have an unrealistic attitude about marriage.  They believe marriage and love are like those we read about or see in the movies.

  • They think people don’t fight if they love each other, but if they do, the “Making Up” is far better than could have been imagined.
  • They think their love will never die, that it will last forever.  What they don’t understand is that love must be nurtured and well taken care of or it will whither and die.
  • People think their love will take them through all trials and turmoil.  However, if the union is not cherished and nurtured properly, trials and times of turmoil will tear them apart.
  • People must build trust in each other and in their spouse’s judgment.  Without trust in each other, they will be too afraid or insecure to follow the other’s advice and judgment.
  • Working against each other instead of with each other is one of the greatest downfalls in marriage.

Marriage, sex, and raising children are the most important activities you will ever experience in this life.  Together, these    activities can be a great blessing or a curse for us.  These same activities can make or break a person, bringing out the best in us or the worst as well.  We can grow and excel in life when these activities are balanced and in good health.  However, when we have sex and children outside of the marriage covenant, our lives are pushed out-of-balance and greater efforts must be taken to put ourselves in balance and live a healthy life.

Children are not meant to be born outside of the marriage covenant or in an unhealthy relationship.  Children need to be nurtured  by both the mother and the father in a union that has love and respect.  Children learn from both of their parents how to live appropriately in society. They learn how to respect women from their fathers and his role in society, just as they learn how to respect  their fathers from their mothers and her role at home and publicly.

Making sure that we develop healthy relationships, healthy attitudes about sex, and a healthy marriage are all essential for a healthy family and a healthy society.  Children living in a healthy marriage teaches them how to be a healthy family and a responsible member of society. Not knowing  how to be a healthy member of a family, a healthy parent or spouse, or accountable in our sexual activities will confuse children and reap an irresponsible and unaccountable society.

This video describes what I’ve been saying about relationships, sex, and marriage and why it is so important to be responsible in performing these activities.  All you have to do is look around you for good examples and bad examples of being accountable for your actions and why society needs you to be the best you can be when participating in these activities. Healthy attitudes about sex and marriage will create a better and longer lasting relationship.

Dr. Phil talks about have a number of incomes coming into your live in order to be balanced and a happy person.  Family units function best in a loving and caring environment that is supported by the following incomes being in balance:

  • Spirituality and Religion (People who become fanatical about religion and make everything and
  •  everyone around them believe as they do is not an income being balanced.)
  • Hobbies and sports can become so time consuming that the person or persons involved don’t have time for anyone or anything else in their life.
  • The same situation can occur when people become too involved with community efforts or a second job (or network marketing business).  The reasons for being involved my be good ones but cannot make up for the imbalance that it causes in ones’s life.
  • Computer activities such as internet shopping, social chat rooms, or social websites and games can become very destructive to a family whose mother, father, or children neglect their responsibilities at home/work/school.
  • Spending addictions or any other form of addiction is extremely damaging to a balanced and healthy family unit.  Until the person with an addiction gets help and overcomes it, there cannot be balance in the family.

 

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Healthy Relationship and Marriage

  • Posted on August 14, 2010 at 10:24 pm

I am a 62 year old woman who has been married to the same man for over 44 years. I’ll admit, it hasn’t been easy. We’ve had some difficult times but I believe we’ve made it this far because of our base values.

My husband and I see marriage as building a life together, and a home and family. By so doing, we create a legacy that we feel blessed to have lived. We were not perfect parents nor perfect mates. We’ve made mistakes, many of them, but we’ve learned from them and changed.

Many people seem to not understand marriage the way we do. They think marriage is about sex and about having someone take care of their needs.

Some women see marriage as having children and husbands who do everything for them and treat them like queens. They don’t understand that marriage and a lasting relationship is really the other way around. Loving family members and doing things for them because they are loved makes a bond between them that is difficult to break.

In other words, caring for each other’s needs and loving each other unconditionally creates a strong bond between family members, especially between spouses.

Fidelity to a spouse does not come from loyalty, it comes from deep within the soul. That’s not going to happen when there is a spouse who is spoiled and demanding.

I do not understand nor appreciate people who expect a mate to be the person they want when they are not that type of person themselves.

A women, who is expecting a man to provide her what she wants and needs but is unwilling to give him the same attention, is just plain selfish and self-serving.

Her selfish and demanding expectations will NOT lead to happiness. The same story is true of a man who has these same characteristics and expectations.

My goal for this site is to be a venue for men and women to learn how to be with each other for the right reasons and learn how to change bad habits that they identify as their own.

I hope your comments will relate to experiences. Tell us how you or someone you know came to know that healthy relationships rest on more than the frosting or the beautiful outside adornment of a person.

I was 8th in the Miss Teenage San Francisco beauty pageant in 1964 or 65, a model for McCall and Montgomery Wards, and a Pacesetter model for my high school. A Pacesetter model wore new cloths to school from Montgomery Wards to set new trends with teenage girls. I tell you this so you understand that I know about frosting and being beautiful.

My husband was very good looking and never had a problem getting girls, but he was put off by most of them. He wanted a girl that was good looking without a lot of makeup and could carry on an intelligent conversation.

Also, he was looking for someone with values and commitment. Those qualities he found in me. I wanted the same qualities in a husband and so I would not date anyone that I could not consider marrying.

We protected our relationship by not having sex before marriage. We wanted to trust each other and could not do that if we did not have the commitment with each other to wait until marriage for sex.

If we broke this commitment, then we knew that it would be possible in the future for one of us to break our marriage vows with infidelity. We knew our family, our children, did not deserve that type of life and so we protected our chastity by obeying personal guidelines we set for our relationship.

I’m not saying that you have to do what we did, but being faithful in the future is a lot easier when you’ve never broken the commitment you made to yourself and each other. Once you do, it is extremely difficult to trust each other later.

I hear comments all the time from a women who has a fear of commitment to a man because she doesn’t think he will be faithful to her and make her life miserable. Sometimes, I have men ask me if I think their fiancée will be faithful. If they trusted, they would not have to ask me.

Marriage and relationships are important when we make them important to us. If the person you are in a relationship is not important to you then why are you in the relationship? What is the payoff? If it is NOT a healthy relationship then you have to have a reason to be in it. I hope you realize that such a relationship will only lead to heartache and pain.

You are better than that type of relationship. You have a reason for being here and you have a purpose to fulfill. You DO NOT deserve to be mistreated, so don’t allow it. Get the help you need to get out of such a situation safely.

If you need to know that you are worth being treated with respect, then call a hotline in your area for abuse or get in touch with my friends at this blog site http://safeingodshands.ning.com/. They will put you in contact with someone to help you find your worth and know that your life has a purpose.

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It’s More About The Cake Than Frosting

  • Posted on March 2, 2010 at 12:37 pm

More Then Frosting

Which cake would you want to bite into?

Take a look at these two cakes. One looks delicious and very enticing. The other cake sits in an ugly pot, it has no frosting, and it does not appear to be tasty.  However, the ugly cake is actually moist and the most delicious.

People are similar to these cakes.

Some of us spend a lot of time and money on making ourselves look good, smell good, and feel good. Even with all the toys and extras that embellish our lives, even when we’ve been endowed with the right attributes to be appealing to others, we may still be internally undesirable and bland.

As we discovered with cakes, our external appearance may be attractive sexually but we lack important attributes that make us pleasing on the inside. The frosting and trimmings may look luscious but there is nothing more to our character than too much sugar.

We need to be the type of person that people want to be around because we make them feel better. People need to know that they can trust us with their inner fears and the precious desires of their hearts. We can be the soft place to fall when someone hurts or their our spirit aches from the hardships of life.

Unfortunately, society teaches us that we need to be the beautiful cake in order to be acceptable to others.  Nothing can be further from the truth.  For example, my friend was no’t good looking, perhaps even ugly, but he always had tons of girls around him.  He was fun to be around and was good to his dates. I loved dancing with him friends when specific songs came on because he was so much fun to dance with.  He was my buddy.

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