Wives should not submit because they are forced to but because they want to because they know that is what pleases the Lord. You submit yourselves to your husbands, sometimes even if they don’t deserve it but because it is what pleases God and God who is just and faithful will reward you according to his promise.

Peace of mind is a gift that no amount of money or success in marriage can buy. A marriage should be built on a mutual and deep respect for the feelings, hopes and aspirations of both the husband and wife.  

Ephesians 5:22-33
New International Version (NIV)
22 Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord.

23 For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior.

24 Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.

25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her

26 to make her holy, cleansing[a] her by the washing with water through the word,

27 and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless.

28 In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.

29 After all, no one ever hated their own body, but they feed and care for their body, just as Christ does the church—

30 for we are members of his body.

31 “For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.”[b]

32 This is a profound mystery—but I am talking about Christ and the church.

33 However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.

Submission in everything and respect for the husband is very clear just as the command to love the wife as a husband loves himself 

Loving Father, I surrender to You today with all my heart and soul. Please come into my heart in a deeper way. I say “Yes” to You today. I open all the secret places in my heart to you and say, “Come on in.” Jesus, You are Lord of my whole life. I believe in You and receive You as my Lord and Savior. I hold nothing back. Holy Spirit, bring me to deeper understanding of the person of Jesus Christ. I surrender all to you: my health, my family, my resources, occupation, skills, relationships, time, successes and failures. I release it, and let it go. I surrender my understanding of how things out to be; my choices and my will. I surrender to You the promises I have kept and the promises I have failed to keep. I surrender my weaknesses and strengths to You. I surrender my emotions, my fears, my insecurities, my everything. Lord, I surrender my entire life to You, the past, the present and the future. In sickness and in health, in life and in death, I belong to You.

“Take, Lord, and receive all my liberty, my memory, my understanding, and my entire will, all that I have and possess. You have given all of me. To you, O Lord, and I return it. All is Yours. Dispose of it wholly according to Your will. Give me Your Love and Your grace, for this is sufficient for me.” In Jesus name I pray. Amen

The Key to keeping Passion in your Marriage is to keep Thoughtfulness in your Marriage. Do unexpected acts of service for your spouse, write love notes, buy or make meaningful gifts, and break out of the normal routine with surprises that will let your spouse know that you still have a Crush on them!

With no Communication, there can be no Trust. With no Trust, there can be no Respect. With no Respect, there can be no Love. With no Love, there can be no Marriage.

Time is the Currency of Relationships. If you consistently choose to hang out with friends instead of investing time with your spouse, you are robbing your marriage.

Flirting outside the marriage often leads to disaster. A new survey out suggests that more than half of all office affairs begin with ending texts or emails with flirtatious lines like “XOXO”. Be careful about what messages you’re sending. Always guard your marriage

Never forget your Vows…”I take you to be my wife/husband. To love and to cherish from this day forward. For better or for worse. In sickness or in health. For richer or for poorer. Forsaking all others. ‘Til death do us part.”

Husbands and Wives, when you argue, please remember these important Ground Rules!
1. Respect your spouse!
2. Never threaten Divorce. Take that word out of your vocabulary.
3. Don’t bring up your spouse’s past mistakes. Forgive and move on. Don’t dig up old dirt.
4. Listen more than you talk. Try to understand more than you try to be understood.
5. Don’t lose your temper. If you start losing control or raising your voice, take a deep breath and stop talking.
6. Don’t try to “win” the argument. Look for solutions where you both win. As husband and wife, you are “One” so when one of you loses, you both lose!

Jesus says to us, “Never will I leave you or forsake you.” Husbands and wives are called to love each other with that same undying devotion!