🩵💙🐟🐬One of the secrets of enjoying a long-lasting marriage is falling in love with each other over and over again, and ensuring that the cycle is repeated again and again as you age together!
🩵💙🐟🐬INBUILT CAPACITY TO FALL IN LOVE AGAIN AND AGAIN
Falling in love wasn’t meant to happen just once, at the onset of your mutual interest in marrying each other.
As a human being, you’re a marvelous and dynamic creature with the capacity to fall in love over and over again. This is why, even though you’re already married and have children, you could meet another person of the opposite gender somewhere and suddenly find your heart moving towards them, and you’d have to quickly pull yourself back!
This capacity is built into your being for the purpose of reigniting fresh affection and renewed interest in your marriage partner only, resulting in a sweeter and stronger bond. The fact is that matrimonial love is divinely wired to be endless, unfailing, and unfading until death; and what makes this a reality is using the catalysts to rejuvenate your love again and again.
🩵💙🐟🐬THE CATALYSTS
What specifically are the catalysts that stir spouses’ hearts to fall in love with each other over and over again? There are several of them.
🩵💙🐟🐬REFOCUSING ON THE QUALITIES THAT BECKONED YOU
One of the catalysts is refocusing on the things in your mate’s life that first attracted you to them, resulting in the great and unquenchable quest to marry them. Even if those qualities have somehow changed as a result of age, you can still see them with your mind’s eyes. Everything is right there in the archives of your mind. Look at them. Feast your mental eyes on them. And as you dwell on those fond memories, nostalgia, that quiet emotional connector, takes over, building up your emotions. Soon, your affection is full and overflowing, and you’re in love with your husband or wife again!
This experience of falling in love with your mate again and again has a spiritual parallel, and it happens in the place of prayer as you’re worshipping God. As you draw closer to Him through expressing your gratitude for the things He’s done for you, you’re soon overwhelmed by how many things the LORD has done for you. Soon, you’re in tears and find your heart falling in love with the Lord anew!
You can experience falling in love with each other anew by focusing on one another’s good qualities and on the things you have done for each other.
🩵💙🐟🐬YOUR PAST LOVE ACTIVITIES ARE SEEDS FOR RENEWED AFFECTION
Secondly, reminiscing or recalling the good times you’ve had together in the past is one of the catalysts that ignites falling in love with each other anew as a couple.
Do you know that the Bible authoritatively tells us to reminisce? That’s part of what it commands us to do in Philippians:
“Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, THINK ON THESE THINGS.” (Philippians 4:8).
It means that the wonderful times you’ve had from the first days of your courtship, through your many years of marriage, until this present moment are not wastes to be discarded and forgotten. No! They are precious and fond treasures you need to keep carefully in the love museum of your hearts and, from time to time, individually look at them to reinforce your love or gain some fresh romantic inspiration. You could bring them up during your conversations with each other and discuss them. You’ll be surprised at the power the recollection of some of them will release into your relationship, strengthening it beyond your expectations.
So, from time to time, think of the amazing times you and your spouse have shared.
Also, think about the blessings, the connections, the advantages, the opportunities, useful relationships, etc., your partner has brought into your personal life as an individual, and you’ll find that the darkness of critical and judgmental thoughts that earlier occupied your mind will dissipate and evaporate like the early morning fog when the sun drenches the atmosphere with its burning rays. And you’ll find that your heart is freshly in love with your mate again!
🩵💙🐟🐬CONCLUSION
There are other powerful catalysts that will stir your hearts to fall in love with each other anew. They include giving your bodies to each other without reservation during sexual intimacy. Another is giving gifts of different kinds to each other, ranging from regular and anticipated gifts to surprise gifts and sacrificial gifts.
Other catalysts are writing poems in their honour, composing love songs that bear their name, and singing them in your own heart. These activities are like fertiliser and rain: they make matrimonial love grow by leaps and bounds.
Be attentive to the state of your affection and passion for each other. Don’t allow the energy, tempo, and vibe of your mutual love life to drop. Ensure that every day, one of the catalysts that engenders falling in love is at work in your union. Don’t wait for your spouse to activate it; take the responsibility and do it.
Sir/Ma, these things are not theories. They are real, and they work!🐟🐬
💕♥️Tonight’s Bedroom Assignment:Re-read this devotional together just before bedtime and discuss it with open and sincere hearts.
✝️Altar Call:Jesus Christ is calling you! Come to Him today in genuine repentance. Believe in Him and be saved!
🧪⚗️Scientific Info To Boost Your Marriage:
🔬”Sexual activity serves as a form of moderate exercise that benefits the heart.
A long-term study published in the American Journal of Cardiology found that men who had sex at least twice a week were 50% less likely to die from heart disease than those who had sex only once a month.”🔬
📢HALLELUJAH!
🎷PRAISE THE LORD!