I am a keen reader of romance. How it begins between a man and woman, how it goes on and how it finishes in the story. Often I hate for it to end because I am so enthralled. For this reason I always add a epilogue at the end of my books to satify the readers curiosity.
Yet, the real end of a love story is hopefully right up to the end of the lover's life.
Lets look at what God tells us about marriage.
" Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands. Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word."
Ephesians 5:22-33.
This sounds hard for the modern woman of today to accept, but lets look at this.
The instructs come to the woman first.
1. It doesn't imply that a woman is to be subservient to her husband. In a different verse it says to RESPECT (Ephesians 5: 33.) So, listen to him and don't talk down to him.
2. "Husbands love your wife doing all in your power to make her happy." This also doesn't mean to be a servant to her.
In the right context these orders mean, listen to one another without begrudge. Be kind, take time to understand where the other is coming from. Work out a happy solution.
Marriage is a two way street of give and take with problems and solutions, pain and happiness.
In a love story all works out in the end. So should it be in marriage.
