🤎🍂💕​God designed your marriage to be self-reviving. However, this only becomes a reality as you reject marriage traditions and cultures that are contrary to God’s Word.

​For instance, tradition and culture often suggest that a wife should subtly resist her husband’s romantic advances for some time before ever consenting—that she should be romantically and sexually passive and unenthusiastic. This is not only unscriptural behaviour but completely contrary to sound reasoning.

​Let’s focus on one such scenario: A man touches his legitimate wife on the waist, and she pushes off his arm as if she’s just been stung by a pregnant scorpion! Her countenance turns sour, and she gruffly tells him: “Stop this nonsense! Is this all you know? This is how you always disturb me!” Some express their rejection in harsher tones and with much more acerbic words.

​Some of these wives have even been taught in the “Grapevine Marriage School” that the more they subject their husbands to such rude reactions, the more the man believes and sees them as a chaste, virtuous, and faithful life partner. Nothing could be further from the truth!

​🤎🍂💕 The Reality Of Rejection 

​The husband who is treated this way does not believe his wife is chaste. Instead, he sees her as a cruel, proud, and insensitive woman. Because of this oblique behaviour, many husbands have come to the conclusion that a housewife is incapable of meeting her husband’s romantic and sexual needs—that they are way beyond her capacity. “If you need a romantic woman who would joyfully relate with you as a Lover,” they say, “you had better go out there and find yourself a side chick.”

​These unwritten traditions, with which the devil slaughters marriages, include:

• ​”Don’t make love with the lights on; always do it in pitch darkness.”
• ​”Don’t make love often. It’s a mark of moral weakness. The less sexual intimacy you have as a couple, the more moral or spiritual you are.”
• ​”Kissing, embracing, and hugging are childish and belong to the early days of marriage. After the first two years, let go of them.”

​There are hundreds more of these insane cultural myths!

​🤎🍂💕The Downward Slide

Dearly beloved, when you obey traditions and culture and stop practicing the various Acts of Marriage as enshrined in the Holy Scriptures, your marriage begins to nosedive. It begins a silent but downward slide on the slope of marital disintegration. Of course, it won’t be obvious for a while, but it is nonetheless real.

​If you have been patiently reading Lovebirds’ Devotional over the last two weeks and paying attention to the SITBYM (Scientific Information To Boost Your Marriage) segment, you would have realized by now that kissing, embracing, and sleeping in the same bed each help to deepen the bond between spouses. God has so ordained that as you carry out these romantic activities, the hormones responsible for bonding instantly go to work, causing your physiological and emotional adhesion to each other to grow stronger and deeper.

​In the area of sexual intimacy, for instance, the more you have relations, the stronger your mutual bedroom life becomes. It is a known fact that the more often a husband has erections through interactions with his wife, the healthier his virility as a man. Similarly, the more a wife consents to her husband for sexual intimacy, the healthier and more elastic the tissues and membranes of her vagina become. She is protected from vaginal atrophy or vaginal dryness.

​🤎🍂💕Who Is Advising You?

​Whoever or whatever is advising you that it is a mark of spirituality or morality to touch your spouse less, kiss them less, or hug them less is an agent of the devil. They are being used by Satan to steal, kill, and destroy your marriage.

​As we can see in our anchor scripture for today, Jesus fought against traditions. Why? Because they are evil. They hinder people from embracing and practicing God’s Word and enjoying the blessings thereof.

​Do you want to enjoy a marriage that is romantically strong and sexually vibrant on a consistent basis? Then reject all traditions of men regarding marriage. Let what God’s Word says in the Bible be your Guide. As you joyfully embrace and heartily obey this Guide, your union will be full of divine Light:

​“The entrance of thy words giveth light; it giveth understanding unto the simple.” (Psalm 119:130)

💕❤️ Tonight’s Bedroom Assignment:

Reread this devotional together just before bedtime and discuss it with an open and sincere heart.

​📚📖✒️ Quotes For Reflection:

“Romance is a state of intense love between a husband and wife. This state is evidenced by peace between the spouses and by an open, mutual display of affection, passion, togetherness, and fondness toward each other.”(Anselm Ahman, Lovebirds’ Devotional, April 13, 2026)

​✝️ Altar Call: Jesus Christ died on the Cross for you; He is calling you! Come to Him today and be saved!

​🌡️⚗️ Scientific Info To Boost Your Marriage:

“Close proximity and the inhalation of a partner’s unique scent can trigger the release of oxytocin—known as the ‘love hormone’—which promotes trust, relaxation, and deeper emotional bonding.”

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