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What am I doing wrong?
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Posted by: jreys
My marriage is crumbling before me. I'm at the end of my rope. Things go along so well and then they fall apart almost instantly. I pray and I pray and we work things out and we move forward. Only to find ourselves in the same place weeks later. My love for my wife is overwhelming. My strength and desire to make this marriage work is never ending. However, she seems determined to walk out and give up. I don't want to lose my wife....my best friend. I don't want to give up on the one thing in the world that makes me so happy. Please tell me what I'm doing wrong. I need prayer, I need God to reach down and touch my wife and let her know that it's okay to love, it's okay to share, it's okay to let someone in, it's okay to have a life with someone other than just yourself. She's struggling with the anniversary of her mother's death and it's tearing me apart I can be with her to give support. I love her so much. I want to be with her so much! Please pray that we find our way back together. Thank you!
Posted by: Standinginfaith
Lord please touch my brother and his marriage with your healing hands. Show them unconditional love for each other. Help them to find your will for their lives and remain it it. In Jesus name I pray. Amen.
Posted by: blessedbygod
Dear Lord, please help Jreys in this time of need. Father, guide him in all areas of his life. Help him to see his wife through your eyes, help him to love her with your love, help him to read your word and be the man of God you want him to be. I bind satans attacks against this family and this marriage. Satan you have no hold on them or their marriage. Father God, I ask you to place warrior angels around them to protect them, and send your ministering angels to help their situation. Father touch his wife and heal her from her grief. Open her eyes to what she is doing, and help her let go of the past and all its hurt. Free her from the bondage she is in. Draw them back together and heal them in any way that they need healing. Help them to truly listen and hear each other. Bless them abundantly, I ask, in Jesus name, Amen.
Posted by: rz_smile
Dear Heavenly Father,
Your love is unconditional and endures forever. Your wisdom is beyond anything we can imagine. Your compassion is more than we ever deserve. Hallelujah! 
Thank you for loving us, giving us direction, and showing us compassion. You are always faithful - thank you. 
Lord, I lift jreys and his loving wife up to you. Please renew their marriage. Stir up their love as if it was fresh and new like in the beginning when they first fell in love. Only make it better! Give jreys direction on what to do for his wife and how to pray for her. Father, console and comfort jreys wife over the grief of her mother and any other grief she may have. I pray for healing in their marriage. Change their hearts to align with your will. Remove anything unholy that may be present especially if it's not noticeable and replace it with the fruits of the spirit. Let these changes all come with ease.
Thank you. Thank you. I ask that your will be done Father in this situtation. Thank you in Jesus name I pray - amen.
Posted by: MarkSentMe
I can put this in a bit of perspective. I love to grow tomatoes. Being of Italian descent, tomatoes are as much a part of me as brown hair and brown eyes. But tomatoes take work to grow. I put seeds in the ground, water them and they sprout. But after that, it is work and maintenance and a labour of love.
Marriage is the same way. I have been married 15 years. It is something that I work at daily. I did not grow up with parents who ever showed each other affection, consideration or respect, so this has been a true learning experience, as my husband's parents were true sweethearts!
The small things count! Saying nice things, saying 'I love you', doing small things are all important. Everyone needs to feel loved, appreciated and valuable. Just making your wife a cup of coffee (or tea or cocoa) without her having to ask for it shows her that you are thinking about her. Buying a bouquet of flowers at the grocery check-out.
The two weeks that you speak of- it's called a "honeymoon".Everything goes great, then it turns sour. Because during the honeymoon phase, everyone is on their best behavior, then we get comfortable and backslide into our old ways. And the problems that we didn't resolve, but buried for a while, rear their ugly heads and it all starts all over again. You just have to keep the lines of communication open and recognize when you're getting in a rut.
I am a 'digger' when it comes to conflict in my house. Oh, yeah. I dig and dig and dig, like a kid with a scab, at a problem until we get down to the deep dark dirty of it. I sure didn't grow up in that environment. My parents would gloss over stuff, all the while harboring resentment, then it would erupt. They've been married for 55 years and my mother will call up crying because my dad is being a butt. I don't want to live like that! So I dig out the festering problems and get 'em out in the open.
You and your wife can pray on this too. One of the things that I found to be awesome is praying out loud. Every day, just thank the Lord for what you have together, thank the Lord for sending you someone who is perfect for you, thank God for the home you have together, for the love you share, for the plans He has for you. Hearing your prayers out loud in your own voice is spiritually uplifting and awesome!
I am praying for you and your wife. Be blessed!
Good Luck and may God Bless You!!