Lies Wives Believe

Why you should listen to that still, small voice

Hubby and I got into an argument the other day over…um…well, I just can’t remember right now, but I’m SURE it was important. Aren’t all arguments super important?

Ha!

Are you as amazed at I am over the silly things you and your spouse argue about? My personal favorites are the REALLY small things, like what to eat for dinner, which turn into full-blown arguments that last the entire evening.

How in the world does this happen?

Anyway, back to the story: Hubby and I got into one of those last-all-evening arguments after dinner. I stormed to the back room, he stormed in the bedroom, we closed the doors, and the poor puppy was trying to figure out why we weren’t in the living room playing with her.

I wanted to pray, maybe not for the right reasons (“God, make HIM understand that HE’S wrong”), but each time I started, I got to thinking about the things that I might could have done wrong in this situation.

This lasted for about ten minutes before I decided to pull out a book and read.

The book I’m currently reading, “All I Need is Jesus and a Good Pair of Jeans” by Susanna Foth Aughtmon, is fantastic. I highly recommend it. However, on this particular night, I was not eager to pick it up. Why? I was on the chapter dealing with anger.

Why is it so hard sometimes for us women to swallow our pride and say those magical words, “I’m sorry”? Why do we cling to our anger so much when it’s so much easier to cuddle with our husbands?

As I teetered between apologizing (for something that OBVIOUSLY wasn’t ANY fault of my own) and staying holed up in the back room, I started wondering what my husband was thinking. The anger part of me imagined him just totally ignoring the argument and him watching TV, but the mellow side thought, “I bet he’s thinking the same thing I am.”

And he was.

I’d like to say that I was the first one to let go of my pride and anger, but it was Hubby who came in the room first to apologize. And the night got considerably better for all involved (including the puppy). And I could have made it happen in less than 10 minutes (instead of the hour it took for both of us to sulk) had I just listened to that still, small voice of God telling me to go apologize.

Are you that way, holding on to a grudge that won’t let you hold on to your husband? Are you clinging to your anger when you should be clinging to God’s grace? Pray. It’ll make a world of difference in your life and in your marriage.