What it means to be connected in Marriage

Post #2- What does it mean to be connected in marriage? Connection is the spiritual glue that holds a marriage together. Explain. Be sure to respond with a thought-provoking answer, and then encourage and respond to two of your classmates' posts. Reply the first student and please label as “ Reply to Rebecca Jeffers” In spirit of this festive holiday Valentine's Day, I think that marriage is a wonderful topic for our discussion board post. Many people forget that marriage is much more than simply slapping a ring on a girl and moving in together. To me, marriage is one of the most wonderful and anticipated things in my life. Why? Well it's simple. The bible stated in! Corinthians that, "Now for the matters you wrote about: It is good for a man not to marry. But since there is so much immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband. The husband should fulfill his marital duty to his wife, and likewise the wife to her husband." To me, this is a simple reminder that God himself blesses the idea of marriage. It makes me smile to think that God himself hand picked out the man I am going to marry. But I know that not all marriages are a happy ever after. In fact, most people forget that marriage revolves around trust and understanding and just get excited about that public aspect of it all. Trust is so important in a marriage because it is what holds the relationship high and keeps the spouses from falling into the sad routine of being paranoid and over anxious every time their spouse leaves the house. I know that without trust, the couple will surely not last, or hate each other for lasting. As for understanding, every relationship has to have this, whether it's romantic or not. If you don't understand the way that your partner thinks and it aggravates you to the point where you want to walk away every time you two get in a fight, then I would have to say that the relationship is as good as doomed in the long run. What is seen a lot lately is the absence of mental connection, and the over use of physical connection. Girls and guys these days are losing their virginity at age 12 and proud of it! To me, modern society has forgotten the importance of love and marriage. For love are leads to marriage, and marriage leads to sexual oneness. Nowadays, people are reversing the order and even skipping the marriage part altogether, and maybe even the love part. To them, Love is simply the idea of having a guy to want to be with you, even if it's for the wrong reasons. Marriage is an important aspect in my life, and I do not believe that anything should come until you are POSITIVE that you are going to marry that person, to save you and that other person from the heartbreak that so often follows the lack of relationship you knew was falling apart from the start. Marriage is blessed by God; sex in the marriage bed is blessed and encouraged by God. But sex before marriage with someone you don't even love is not only proof that you have lost respect for yourself, but evidence that you should seek God and his answers. Reply to the below and please label as “Reply to Sarah Everhart” CONNECTIVITY IN MARRIAGE MEANS… To be connected in marriage means sticking to and loving whoever God gave to you as a spouse. Connections are not things you can undo and get away from easily and without effort and pain. God created man and woman to be together and he put them in this sanctioned union with each other so that they may better themselves and their spouse. To be connected you must become one, not only sexually, but mentally too. You must be able to trust your partner with your heart and open it up to them to show them all of you. To be connected you must believe that your loved one will be there for you when you reach out. That they will treat you with sincerity and care. That they will prove to be a secure base. That when, anything happens or threatens to come between you two, you will both come together and work it out will willingness. That the spouse will be there for you no matter what. Marriage is a something very important that is worth fighting for. It is worth laying yourself and you're want and desires and dreams down sometimes to let your partner get what they dream or desire. Sometimes this causes conflict and arguments. Arguments are not bad in marriages unless one or both partners are out to emotionally hurt and tear down the other. Matthew 19: 4-6 state, "Haven't you read," he replied, "that at the beginning the Creator 'made them male and female,' and said, 'For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh' ? So they are no longer two, but one. Therefore what God has joined together, let man not separate." Connectivity in marriage is the spirituality of both partners.