Mental, emotional, and physical intimacy in marriage is of paramount importance in order to guarantee our union as a couple. It provides an unfathomable awareness of being “in love” as we connect to each other in every way. We actually enjoy each other’s company.
This enables us to relish a deep assurance that our mate respects us and our impact in our union. We are proud of each other’s accomplishments in life, we value one another’s commitment to our marriage, and we pray together when making decisions that affect us personally as well as that impacts our union.
If we refuse to share affection, nurturing, loving words and actions, time, attention, and emotions with our mate, they will not feel loved. If we show love the way that we need love to be shown to us, we also deprive them of the security of feeling loved in their own love language.
- https://www.5lovelanguages.com/quizzes/
This neglect sucks the life right out of our mate and makes it impossible for the one we love to completely feel secure in our relationship. They work harder to earn our love, and this often gets on our nerves because they hover over us and complain about our behavior more than compliment us.
Intimacy helps us to feel loved, understood, respected, cherished and appreciated. When our soul is filled and fulfilled, we can reciprocate these same messages to our spouse. Genuine compassion, respect, appreciation and love for one another are needed ingredients in our relationship.
These qualities promote unity and intimacy in our union. Knowing without any doubt that another person genuinely cares about us is rewarding. Endeavoring to understand one another’s needs and helping to meet them always creates a positive and nurturing atmosphere in our marriage.
Prayer:
Father God, remind us to make sure that our mate feels loved by us, because that is the greatest need human beings have in this life. We also revel in the fact that You loved us enough before we were ever born to come as our Emmanuel, and to save us from sin and from our self. Teach us to meet our own needs rather than to expect other people to supply them.
Help us to respect one another’s individuality, intelligence, talents, and strength of character. Teach us how to show our appreciation effectively, in order to encourage one another. We will reap positive effects from the effort we use to make this happen. We want to cherish each other’s contribution to our relationship. We look to You to provide for us physically, emotionally, mentally, financially and spiritually, because You always care for us.
Thought for the Day:
When we know that our mate enjoys our presence in their life, this assurance provides us with a sense of stability, order, well-being and permanence; they may dislike certain aspects of our personality, habits or responses; however, they cherish and love us and honestly do not want to live life without us.
