Lies Wives Believe
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Are You “Love” To Your Husband?
Author: MInTheGap
Better half. Beauty with the Beast. The Stronger of the Two. The Prettier of the Two.
There are many things that the culture expects you to be as his wife. Perhaps you even feel that you should be his competition! The Bible has a lot to say about husbands and wives, especially about the type of wife God wants you to be.
read comments (1)What Role Does Weight Play In Marriage?
Author: MInTheGap
In the Country Song, Hot Mama, Trace Adkins confronts something all marriage relationships go through:
You’re doin’ all you can to get in them old jeans.
You want that body back, you had at seventeen.
Baby, don’t get down; don’t worry ’bout a thing.
‘Cause the way you fill ‘em out, hey, that’s all right with me.
I don’t want the girl you used to be.
An’ if you ain’t noticed, the kids are fast asleep,
We all know that bodies change, they never stay the same. For the wife and mother, this is even more dramatic. It seems that, for nine months, the soon to be mom is putting on weight, and then is expected to lose it all in the first few days after the baby makes its appearance.
Let alone the fact that there’s “sympathy weight” that the man gets, metabolisms going down, less time to get out and work out—it seems only the natural progression that the husband and the wife will put on weight.
But should that effect the relationship, does it?
You Got Her Pregnant, Should You Marry Her?
Author: MInTheGap
When I was a teen, we had a couple of girls get pregnant in our church. Both of them were encouraged to marry the father of the baby. At least one of those marriages is still going today.
But the idea that a teenage mom should marry the father is not settled in Christian circles.
Take this comment from Mouse:
I believe the point of marriage is to glorify God, not to correct a mistake. What is the foundation of a marriage that has a purpose of fixing behavior? That is, teenage sex is a symptom of a deeper heart issue that needs to be addressed. Making two kids get married because the young woman is pregnant is like putting a bandaid on a broken leg.
That said, I believe in young marriage. I believe that is God’s design. But if the point of saying “I do” is to right a wrong instead of serve God through serving your spouse, the marriage is doomed no matter how old you are. – Should Teen Moms Get Married?
Where Do You Live?
Author: MInTheGap
Society wants us to think one way, and the Bible another. And yet, only one of these ways that will help us to not only be complete, but to feel complete as well.
Nancy Leigh DeMoss, in her famous Lies Women Believe: And the Truth that Sets Them Free
You see, we read and hear so many negative things about submission because a large part of our society operates on envy. We are not content with who we are, what our role is supposed to be and our makeup—we must be who we are not.
- The partial inspiration for this site! [↩]
6 Times You Should Not Submit To Your Husband
Author: MInTheGap
We all know that the Bible commands that wives submit and respect their husbands. We’ve heard it time and again, and though it’s a difficult command, we know that since God expects it of women, that it must be done.
Submission does not mean “door mat”, but instead means that one chooses to allow the other person to lead. I like to think of it like rank in the Army—submission means that the authority belongs with another, and that I should obey what they have to say—even when I may have a different, and sometimes better, opinion.
However, did you know that there are 6 times when a wife should not submit to her husband? This list is borrowed heavily from a Handy Reference Guide of When Not to Submit.
Biblical Wives
Author: MInTheGap
On Sundays, we’re going to look into different wives from the Bible. And not just the major ones. The Bible has a lot to say about marriage, family, and the roles of men and women!
I think you’ll find this study interesting as we look through the lives of some Biblical wives, and even see how husbands really haven’t changed that much either.
My Partner Can’t Do Anything Right
Author: MInTheGap
We’ve seen it on countless sitcoms—from the Dick Van Dyke show to the present—where the wife that’s at home continues to make mistakes. She burns the food, leaves an iron mark on the shirt, and ran the car into the pool.
Today it’s the man—he’s a bad dad. He can’t do anything useful. He wouldn’t know how to clean a dish if he were standing in a bucket of soap and water.
The Evil of Comparison
I Know All There Is To Know
Author: MInTheGap
You were married. You have lived together for sometime. But at some point—and we all reach this point—you decided that there is no longer anything new to learn about your spouse. Indeed, you’ve stopped learning about your spouse and have decided that there’s nothing new to learn!
The problem is that you’re both changing people. You are both a product of what is going on around you, and your opinions and feelings about things may change. So why is it that the people that are closest to us stop trying to learn about us?
It’s all About Me and My Dreams
Author: MInTheGap
People have dreams. No, I’m not simply talking about that time you ended up in front of your school giving the speech of your life in your underwear, I’m talking about goals, wants and desires.
There are things that each person wants to do, what they see themselves doing with their lives and what they want to become.
It’s these dreams and goals that help make us who we are, they define us, and they halp us to feel successful when we reach them.
Space, The Final Frontier
Author: MInTheGap
Do you have to know where your spouse is 100% of the time? Is he or she only allowed to do things that you want to do or that you approve of?
Now, having somewhere specific and knowing where your spouse is can be a good accountability system, but if you or your spouse has to always report in, and does not feel that they have time that they can call their own and space that they can call their own, you’re probably setting up “the perfect storm.”