Steps to a Healthy Marriage: 8 Good Steps Forward.

You have read so many articles on how to have a strong and happy marriage; you have heard about it on the radio or attended seminars on the same course. Now tell me how far you have gone in achieving your aim of making your marriage truly happy. If you have not made so much progress, then this list of 10 important steps to a healthy marriage will give you a good step forward into the success you desire.

These steps to a healthy marriage have been tested and proven to work effectively when you are serious about taking your marriage to another level. If you have read this post to this point, then you are taking the right steps to change the status of your marriage. Congratulations!

 

What is a healthy marriage?

Before we look at the steps to a healthy marriage, let me answer one important question.

Healthy marriage as the name implies is a marriage where the couples are committed to each other and their relationship. They are dedicated to nurturing and building their relationship daily for the future.

In a healthy marriage, both spouses are satisfied with their marriage, and not because they are without problems, but because they work their ways through the storms of their marriage to make it better for them. Below are a few selected healthy marriage checklists.

8 important steps To A Healthy Marriage.

“May each family rediscover family prayer, which helps to bring about mutual understanding and forgiveness.”

– Pope Francis

1) Say a Prayer Together:-

Praying together as a family is number one on my list of 8 steps to a healthy marriage. if you want to have a happy marriage and family which I know you did, It is written in the Bible that “the family that prays together stays together”.

If you and your whole family will start praying together from today, happiness and joy will come and be established in your house. Prayer works like magic: it is all about giving God preeminent over your family. It also means you know that you don’t have power over your marriage and spouse.

Every change you want in your marriage will come from God, and the only way to let God know what you want to change in your marriage is through prayer. So pray now and “pray without ceasing.”

2) You must Love Your Spouse:-

“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even heard but must be felt with the heart”

Every happy marriage comprises of two people who have a love for each other, who are also committed to making the best of each other. You must be there always to strengthen your partner when he/she is in need. When love and care are present in a relationship, peace and love are obvious.

However, love is for the man, while honor is for women to do. Remember that God commanded man to love his wife, while to the women he commanded them to honor their husband. Families are having great problems these days because couples have left the command of God and trying to do otherwise.

As a wife, your task is to honor your husband at any time and place; loving a man doesn’t mean anything to him. Men see honor as love and that is what it is. When you honor him, he will reciprocate with love and peace will return.

3) Greet You Spouse With Love First Thing In The Morning:-

“Every morning I wake up and choose to be happy because you give me a reason to be. Good morning, the love of my life.”

Always choose to greet your spouse with “positive statements” like; it feels good to wake up by your side this morning”. “I love you and I can’t live without you.” These words are to reassure him/ her that someone cares.

Nothing makes a marriage successful than when your partner feels safe and saying things like that helps them understand the level of love and care you have for them.

Have you tried anything else that worked for you?

Feel free to share wit with us in the comment section.

4) Send Sweet and Lovely text massages to Your Spouse:-

Technology has made everything possible and fast too. This will help you send lovely and sweet text messages to your spouse while he or she is not closed at that moment. You can send messages like “I can’t wait to see you tonight” or “I miss you.”

Sending love messages, or good night quotes can make a big difference in your relationship. It can change the life of your partner. Your partner can get so amazed by getting those messages from you.

5) Re-unite by hugging yourselves:-

“I have learned that there is more power in a good strong hug than in a thousand meaningful words.”

Ann Hood.

Normally when couples reunite after the day’s work, they start with critiques instead of appreciations. You will hear one partner saying to the other“why have you not made dinner? why have you not cleaned the sitting room and so on? However, if you really want to have a strong and happy marriage family, you must decide to re-unite with hugs and kisses, instead of nagging. At least let the hug last for 20- 30 minutes.

Experts have proved that hugging and kissing are so many things in our lives. For example-

• Reduces stress.
• It can boost the immune system.
• Lowers blood pressure and heart rate.
• Decrease depression.

You can start hugging today if you stopped doing so. It will give your relationship a boost.

6) Complements Your Partner at the End of Every day:-

“The hours I spend with you, I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it … you and you alone make me feel that I am alive … Other men, it is said, have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.”

— George Moore

In some marriages, couples never feel appreciated, and never show appreciation too. This usually makes the marriage filled with the sense of been taken for granted.

You must choose to end the day by complementing your partner for any little thing he/ she did.

6) Manage your conflicts well:-

It is not as if there is no fight among the happiest couples, it is just that they have the ability to manage their conflicts well.

Conflict management is one of the 10 steps to a healthy marriage. There must be quarrels and disagreements, but if you know how to handle them, then you have the best too to keep your marriage in check.

According to John Guttman, “69% of problems in marriage are not resolved.” That’s why there are superstitions and divorce everywhere. Meanwhile, if you know how to deal with issues in your relationship fast, you will protect your relationship from collapse.

7) You must be Selfless:-

Another important thing in my list of 8 steps you must not fail to do to have a happy marriage family is to avoid selflessness. Many marriages are broken today because of this. Some partners think of no other person than themselves. Learn to live together as one.

Marriage is given and taken. If you concentrate On taking without giving to your marriage, then nothing will work. However, when you forget about your gratification and concentrate on your spouses, then your partner will like to reciprocate and there will be harmony and peace in your relationship.

8) Be committed to making your marriage work:-

Everything depends absolutely on you and your spouse. If you want to make your marriage a happy one, then after studying these steps to a healthy marriage you must look at where you are not getting it right and then you get yourself committed to working with it. It is only the two of you that can do just that.

In Conclusion:-

8 good steps to a healthy marriage are not only a marriage tips for wife or husbands, but It is also for everybody who is in a relationship, wants to go into a relationship. You will learn so much from this post and you can change so much in your marriage if you’ll put all you learn to practice.

Let me leave you with this last word; have a positive mindset and you will see what will become of your marriage/ relationship.

I am still your inhouse marriage counselor.

See You At The Top.

Murphyaik.