While physical intimacy is a precious part of the gift of marriage, what I’m talking about is an emotional intimacy that sex simply cannot rival. It’s a connection that allows you to speak volumes with a glance, calm troubled waters with a touch, and revel in each moment without any regard for the next. These things do not develop without work, effort, and commitment. Some couples spend their entire marriages never truly being happy together. Work to make sure that isn’t you.
Study your spouse incessantly and know their needs and desires. Create a mutual pact to make those things priority in your life, agreeing to each cheerfully and ungrudgingly give sacrificially of yourself in order to fulfill one another. We will present ourselves to one another with no holds barred and only one rule of conduct: Mutual respect. What is your declaration?
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