Doubting Love

Do you doubt your partner’s love? Have you failed to secure your wife or husband’s
respect? The problem just may be you.

 

For the Regency couple, marriage was a simpler affair. They more often than not, wed for property, security or social acceptance. Overtime, each mate earned respect and love. The husband garnered his wife’s respect by his provisions, giving her the security of food, shelter and protection. The wife found her husband’s favor, by allowing him to take pride in her accomplishments, the style in which she kept the home and the nurturing of children. In due course, favor transformed into desire and love.

 

We have left this model of old, hoping that all will work out at the exchange of vows. Yet, the union is doomed to failure, if we do not offer the basic ingredients. We must give respect to the husband and love to the wife.

Sketching Spiritual Truths

Ephesians 5:33
However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.

 

Isn’t it interesting how God calls the wife to respect her mate and the husband to love his? Note that neither is demanded to do both. I believe that this juxtaposition is the divine plan for successful marriages.  By meeting the deepest emotional needs, a healthy relationship blooms.

Questions to Ponder:

Are you doing everything that you can to engender respect?

Are you doing everything you can to be loved?

Are you making this calling easy or hard for your partner?

Sweet Parting Thoughts

Do you understand that a husband gives his wife a special gift when he respects her?  Husbands, do you understand the precious nature of your wife’s love?

 

My Dear Friend, 

I am a writer who has been gifted with a unique story. Picture a Regency Family set in Devon, England around 1820’s (boring). 

The Delveauxes are a noble family, the model of propriety but deep within the walls of Trenchard, they battle vices and evils that plague the depths of their souls (better).

 They know what it means to cry in the middle of the night or to want something so desperately they are willing to lie, cheat or steal (okay, really good). 

Their journey is not to different from yours, but their options are much more limited. The decisions that they make not only affect them, but the generations to come.

My mission is to craft tales which not only entertain the saved, but empower the lost.

Thanks for joining the conversation. Keep coming back.

Your Obliged, &c.,

Vanessa

www.christianregency.com