Meeting Places
By David & Maureen Brown
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Turn the television off and go for a walk together.
Don’t drink too much wine - that cheapens your life.
Be good husbands to your wives.
Wives understand and support your husbands.
Husbands provide leadership to your wives, not by domineering but by cherishing.
Husbands go all out in love for your wives – it will pay dividends.
Agreement produces a powerful union.
He who finds a wife obtains favour from the Lord.
Submission works both ways.
A nagging wife is like a dripping tap but a tap only drips when it has been well used!
A negative attitude is something that is driven from deep within and can kill a relationship stone dead.
Remember that behind every great man is a great woman - wives if you want a great husband be a great wife!
Respect and cherish are two words crucial to any relationship.
Have due regard for the feelings and rights of others.
Friendship and humour are vital ingredients in any marriage.
Marriage is a mystery and none of you will ever be able to say, ‘we have arrived.’
Building a relationship that will ‘fit’ together is something that cohabitation generally fails to achieve.
You are in this together – you are not married singles.
Solve your solvables first. There are solvable and perpetual problems.
Do not loose sight of each other.
Have a sense of humour – remember laughter is the best medicine.
Accept your spouse’s personality and culture.
No one is ever right – there is no absolute reality, only subjective reality.
Because of our mistakes we often learn more about life and living.
Man was built in the wilderness whilst woman was built in the garden.
Different, opposite, essential, valid and yet equal and balanced – a husband and wife’s balanced viewpoints.
Live happily with the woman you love through the fleeting days of life, for the wife God gives you is the best rewards down here for all your earthly toil.
Finance is an area where absolute clarity between you is important.
The subject of money is often the cause of tension within a marriage.
Couples who pool their resources are less likely to break up.
56% of all divorces are related to financial tension in the home.
Give 10%, save 10% and spend what is life.
We all, whether male or female, need encouragement. We all need our dose of encouragement.
Cut back to the good, even down to the foundations if needed, but never patch up, as the cracks will reappear.
In reality it takes nineteen positives to negate one negative.
We have found that encouragement is vital, but above all we need to be listened to.
Listening is a major part of the communication process.
The male and the female work entirely differently.
Women love to talk – they need to talk.
While women are perfectly capable of working things out for themselves, they very often need men to simply listen to them.
When a woman says, ‘we need to talk’ then, men, this is your big cue to listen.
