It's not your love that sustains the marriage; it's your marriage that sustains your love. If you build a solid marriage on a sound foundation, and maintain it properly, your love will survive.
Too many people have bought into the lie that "love is a feeling." It's not a feeling. It's a decision.
amen and amen! Too many have forgotten or never learned that love is a choice, a choice you make every day. Will I honor my vows today? Will I be the best wife I can be today? Do I remember that, when things are tough, I promised I would be true in worse, poorer, and sickness, not just in better, richer, and health, and til DEATH do us part? Seems as though these women forgot they also agreed to forsaking ALL others.
I have often told my boys love is NOT a feeling, its a decision. I pointed always to the crucifix at that time and said, do you think Jesus FELT like being scourged, crowned with thorns and crucified? He led by example by dying for you, even if you were the only human to ever exist he would have done it. That is true love and he asks us to take up our cross and follow him. He gave us a visual, take up our cross. Then he led by example, showing he meant everything, up to and including a literal cross. Its a decision. Kudos for getting that!
“Too many people have bought into the lie that “love is a feeling.” It’s not a feeling. It’s a decision.”
My wife gets mad every time I insinuate that.