LOVE

I have been happily married for two years now and i have a little authority to share about love in Marriage. I met my beautiful wife 4 years ago and then we dated for close to 2 years before we finally got married. I love her so much and i have come to realise that it is true that love grows stronger and better with the passing of each day in our lives.
It's so interesting how we learn new things about each other day by day because we all keep changing with the time due to different causes. I remember in this last year we kinda got very busy with work and we lost track of some of the quality time we used to spend together especially in dining out and going for holidays. We are however returning to the basics in this year and as such we must have these back in our lives.
You know, it is so easy and it is actually happening with most marriages that couples tend to stop loving the way they used to before they tied the knot. There are so many marriages that are rotting everywhere one looks and as such, we need to encourage these couples and let them know that it is very possible to get back on course.
Why is it that the journey starts so well but the finishing is bad. At the marriage altar, we share vows very excitedly but the flame seems to run out quickly. Well, this is something you need to ask yourself as you re-examine your marriage.
There is need for a daily, hourly, minutely, secondly dose of love in our marriages. There is need to put aside quality time that existed before. Romance should be there more often. I encourage couples to do this in their lives.
I know there are changes at times that take place in the family as the children come into the picture. Yes, these really change a lot. This is where you need to set in another level of creativity to ensure the quality time still abides. It is also useful to get a mentor couple. This may not be easy but it is very necessary. Look for a couple that has more time or age in the marriage to offer advice so that we keep love alive in the marriages.
I can't list all the good things that will come as we live a marriage of love daily. There will be alot of inner joy and self gratification. More fulfillment and new energies to help you achieve the vision you have for your marriage and family. 1 Corinthians 13 puts it more clearly;

1 Corinthians 13

New International Version (NIV)

13 If I speak in the tongues^[a] of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. ² If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. ³ If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast,^[b] but do not have love, I gain nothing.

⁴ Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. ⁵ It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. ⁶ Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. ⁷ It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
⁸ Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. ⁹ For we know in part and we prophesy in part, ¹⁰ but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. ¹¹ When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. ¹² For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
¹³ And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.