What one "sin" will wreck your marriage?

Answer 1

I took some time and thought about this question. I think the most comman answer would be infidelity.. However, I would have to pick unforgiveness. We are commanded to forgive each other. If a partner refuses to forgive his or her spouse when they are wronged, there is no real chance of the marriage lasting. How can a marriage last when there is an everlasting gulf between the two parties. A good marriage, is usually built on a foundation of trust, so any sin that betrays that trust could be hard to recover from.. However, there are many people that have kept their marriages together even after a spouse cheats on his/her partner. The only way a marriage can survive that kind of trauma, or any trauma at all would be through forgiveness. I hope that this helps!! This was definitely a great question!

Answer 2

Pride is the mother of all sins.

Pride leads to arguments.
Pride causes self righteousness.
Pride causes unforgiveness.
Pride won't let us admit we are wrong.
Pride won't let us apologize.
Pride won't let us see the other's side.
Pride wants to take credit for the other's accomplishments.
Pride interferes with the ability to reason.
Pride causes us to say and do things that are wrong just to save face.
Pride doesn't care what is good and right.
Pride causes us to be defensive when confronted.
Pride does not accept correction.
Pride causes us to look down on the other.
Pride causes us to lash out when we are angry.
Pride causes us to think we are not getting everything that we deserve; the grass is always greener on the other side.
Pride causes us to not take advice.

Practicing humility would save most marriages.

Answer 3

Honesty is first in my book (Thou shalt not lie). I think that also covers infidelity, because how can a person be unfaithful and still be honest?

Also, I don't agree with the people who said that one should forgive infidelity. It's in the bible that one is *allowed to divorce* for infidelity, as long as the victim spouse does not share intimacy with the culprit spouse after having learned of the infidelity. If they share that intimacy after the knowledge, then the victim spouse has no right to divorce.

I highly value forgiveness, but even the bible states that infidelity is a cause for divorce.

Answer 4

I don't believe in sin but I think the fastest way to 'wreck' a marriage is to lose respect for each other.

If you don't respect your partner enough to be honest, faithful, kind, etc. there's really not much hope it can survive.

Answer 5

Selfishness.

If you only care about yourself and don't think about your partner, then you're not going to engage them as an equal, and without equality, every aspect of a marriage suffers.

A selfish spouse won't take their partner's needs into consideration, whether they are sexual, emotional, financial or otherwise. Being selfish can lead to bad communication, carelessness with money, keeping secrets, telling lies, and even larger problems like infidelity.

Marriage can't work unless you care about your spouse.

Answer 6

Adultery, unless your marriage is really a political and economic union like Bill and Hitlery Clinton seem to have.

Answer 7

Not being able to forgive. If God can't forgive us if we don't forgive someone else, how bad is it to not forgive the one person that makes us who we are in marriage?

Your spouse is a gift from God, respect him, and treat her like Christ treats the church, and you can have a happy marriage.

Answer 8

Cheating,

Gambling.

Child Abuse

walking out to the streets to look for prostitutes.

and Drugs/ alcohol

Sloth.

Answer 9

not having Christ in the center of your marriage will wreck it

Answer 10

Any kind of dishonesty will destroy a marriage. Dishonesty results in the loss of trust and without trust, love can't survive.