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What do you do when your marriage needs a reset button? Mikey recommends asking God what he says about how to recalibrate your marriage, and the clearest way to hear His opinion on the matter is to turn to the Bible.
1 Corinthians 13: 4-7 can be understood as this:
As a husband, are you patient? Are you kind? Are you never jealous or boastful or proud or rude? Do you ever demand your own way? Are you ever irritable, or keep records of being wronged? Do you ever rejoice about injustice or do you rejoice whenever the truth wins out? If you love your spouse, you should never give up on them, never lose faith in them, should always be hopeful, and endure through every circumstance.
When you look at love through this Biblical lens, it can almost always help correct your relationship with your spouse. Another passage to consider is Ephesians 5:21-30 where the Bible tells women to respect and submit to their husbands and for men to love their wives just like Christ loved the church.
But this all tends to lead us to the same question: “But what if they don’t hold up their end of the deal? Am I supposed to love, respect and submit to this lousy person?” Well, the short answer is: yes. You see, as Mikey puts it, when you follow the Bible’s instructions and trust God with your marriage, you will be amazed at how Christ can create supernatural change in you and your marriage.