Wife for Life
Wife for Life
Enjoy life with the wife you love all the days of your fleeting life. (Eccles. 9:9)
Empty Nesting
Any father with teenagers in the house knows the joys, heartaches, and excitement of these years. High school sporting events, musicals, dances—it’s as if your child’s social calendar becomes your own. So when kids head off to college, you feel a gaping hole in the home, and often in the marriage relationship.
Marriage experts and speakers Drs. Les and Leslie Parrott have been shocked to see the rise in divorce among empty nesters. The fastest growing spike of divorce is among this particular age group and demographic, the Parrotts point out, leaving many couples to miss out on the second-half stretch of their marriages when satisfaction is actually the most possible and available.
The Good Life
The Parrotts encourage couples to follow the Bible’s advice to “enjoy life with the wife you love all the days of your fleeting life” (Eccles. 9:9). If marriage satisfaction could be charted, the Parrotts say it would start high during the newlywed years. Once children enter the picture, it drops a little. It tends to hit the low point during the teen years when busy schedules make it difficult for couples to connect emotionally, physically, intimately. Once the relationship hits the bottom, however, couples who stay together and work to reconnect will often find a togetherness that far exceeds anything they’ve previously experienced in their marriage.
Bottom Line
Trusting in God is the only way to live because He is the only One who is completely trustworthy.