do you put anything before your spouse in your marriage? if yes, what?
2007-10-23 07:37:13 · 24 answers · asked by just curious (A.A.A.A.) 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
No... my spouse is number one to me... ( our children are grown).
2007-10-23 07:39:50 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
The relationship between me and my spouse is what makes everything good (or bad) in the family. My children do not come before my spouse, although I care deeply for them. My spouse is at my heart-level. My children are at knee-level, and I pray that they find someone at heart level.
But many things do come between us, but more like interference than anything serious: TV. Computer, Work. Those three things can come between us.
2007-10-23 14:42:55 · answer #2 · answered by Somewhat Enlightened, the Parrot of Truth 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
God is the Originator of marriage and union. Genesis 2 :24 - "24 That is why a man will leave his father and his mother and he must stick to his wife and they must become one flesh. 25 And both of them continued to be naked, the man and his wife, and yet they did not become ashamed."
Without God, I would not be here, my husband would not be here and thus we would not have one another to be married to. Also, God has infinite wisdom and knows how to make a marriage work, so for those reasons I put God first.
2007-10-23 14:57:32 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
If you do, then you have no business being in a partnership. A partnership based on true love is defined by two individuals willing to give of themselves to the other, unconditionally, no matter what the cost to them themselves. You live for the good of the other person and they for you. This is what it means to 'give yourself' to somebody. In this way, your relationship is based on a mutual giving, instead of mutual 'taking from', which inevitably, ends in disaster because as soon as you see there's something you can't 'get' from a partner, you'll start to look elsewhere for a source from which to take, and betrayal and suffering ensue. Giving is motivated by love. Taking is motivated by selfishness. It's the equivalent of mutually consented rape in the form of a legally and/or ecclesiastically confirmed contract.
2007-10-23 15:04:39 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
God. God/Jesus is more important than my husband. My husband feels the same way that God is before me. God has to be more important because he is who we are supposed to worship. If you put your husband or wife before God, you are putting them as your idol and we all know this is a very bad thing. God is the only one who can lead me and who I can always know will never lead me astray. Being that my husband is not perfect, neither am I, I think this makes a lot of sense.
2007-10-23 16:12:01 · answer #5 · answered by Dani Marie 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I balance things as in order to provide for my wife and kids work often has a high priority. On the other hand, the family, ours first, and the extended second, is extremely important. Both my wife and I sacrifice our needs for our kids.
2007-10-23 14:49:10 · answer #6 · answered by Pirate AM™ 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
my children come before anything. then my spouse, then my family and friends, then my gods
2007-10-23 14:40:09 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
I put God first because without Him I wouldnt' have a marriage! God is the head of my household.
2007-10-23 14:41:18 · answer #8 · answered by lisaandpathailey 4 · 3⤊ 2⤋
I still hold on to my ideals because I am who I am. I also encourage her to be who she is. Example- I don't care who she votes for because that's off limits.
2007-10-23 14:42:55 · answer #9 · answered by Bobby K 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, money. I put it before her, she says "thanks" and then goes and spends it all.
She does the same thing to me but with food. It's a great relationship.
2007-10-23 14:41:33 · answer #10 · answered by MetalHeart 4 · 3⤊ 1⤋