If movies and television shows were any true indication as to what marriage really is, I would be overwhelmingly sad! Honestly, it took me a long time--a really long time, to come to a place where I came to understand that my marriage is not a romance movie. It never will be either. It is very disheartening when you see all these wonderful romantic gestures and then you get a CD cleaner for Christmas... *sigh* Don't get me wrong, I think our husbands should attempt to put forth some effort. We, as women, need to feel loved and wanted. Unfortunately, as wives, we sometimes fail to see that they really ARE romantic in many ways and in their own ways.For example, when my husband stops at the store for me on his way home from a long day at work, he IS loving me. That IS romance--from a man's point of view.Those little things they do and ways they help us ARE loving and their way of expressing it!When we come to realize that and actually LOOK for it, we will be overwhelmed with how loved we really are...I had to literally lay down soap operas, books and certain films/shows that filled my head with ick. God cleaned this area of my life out fairly early in my walk with Him. It has done me a lot of good, because watching all that junk on a regular basis gives you the grass is greener thought process. Or at the very least, you begin to covet. And now, dear brothers and sisters, one final thing. Fix your thoughts on what is true, and honorable, and right, and pure, … [Read more...]