- Telling off people who try to flirt with you online and offline. Setting boundaries.
- Involving your spouse when making decisions.
- Not allowing your parents to micro-manage your home. Letting your parents know you and your spouse are a team.
- Not keeping friends who disrespect your spouse.
- Treating your spouse with kindness even when you two are not in good terms.
- Being emotionally, sexually and financially faithful to your spouse.
- Not making your spouse feel he/she is competing with another for you.
- Treating your spouse with honour in public and in private.
- Avoiding making the children take sides between you and your spouse.
- Treating your spouse right because how you treat your spouse you are treating yourself
- Praying for your spouse even when mad at your spouse.
- Avoiding using the divorce card to scare your spouse to change. You don’t entertain the thought of ending things on matters you two can resolve.
- Being friends with your spouse no matter how bad things get.
- Being reliable during storms. Your spouse can count on you when it is not going well and you can count on your spouse.
- Celebrating your differences and using them to make the team of you two better. Marriage is about unity, not uniformity.
- Having each other’s back come what may.
- Protecting your spouse from what seeks to harm him/her.
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