Ever try holding a woman to that?
Good Luck.
No, my wife holds me to it... ;^{)
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NIV Ephesians 5:25-33
25. Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her
26. to make her holy, cleansing 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 his own body, but he feeds and cares for it, 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."
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.
I wasn't going to say anything, but that verse helps me overcome that incredible need to just cuddle and then pass out. When times are tough, nothing (and I mean NOTHING) is more wonderful to me than have my husband wrap his arms around me and just holding me while I fall asleep. But the Biblical ideal of marriage reminds me again and again that marriage is about more than just me.
In the scriptural ideal, marriage is about more than MY needs. If I put his needs first, and he puts my needs first, we both get what we most desire. For him, that would be a big juicy steak and errrrrr, attention. For me, it means cuddling til I fall asleep.
If I based my life solely on doing what I wanted to do, and only doing it when it is the best experience possible for me, then I would never have lived. I would be a hollow shell, devoid of experiences that have enriched me. It is the experimentation, the surprise, the perseverance in love that leads us to experience things beyond what we "want". It is life, and unselfish marriage is the apex of that experience.
You know, it ain't always the woman...