30 MARITAL VIRUSES
1 - Laziness kills marriage
2- Suspicion kills marriage
3- Lack of trust kills marriage
4- Lack of mutual respect kills marriage
5- Unforgiven spirit kills marriage (Forgiveness is not optional but mandatory)
6- Constant Arguments kill marriage
7- Keeping secrets from your spouse kills marriage
8- Every form of infidelity kills marriage (financial, emotional, psychological, material, etc)
9- Poor communication kills marriage
10- Lies easily kill marriage (be sincere to your spouse in every aspect)
“I say nothing, not one word, from beginning to end, and neither does he. If it were lawful for a woman to hate her husband, I would hate him as a rapist.”
― Philippa Gregory, The Red Queen
11- Relating more with your parents than your spouse kills marriage
12- Nagging kills marriage
13- Too much talk and careless talk kills marriage
14- Spending less or little time with your spouse kills marriage
15- Being too independent minded kills marriage
16- Love for party, money and spending/partying kills marriage
17- Exposing the inadequacies of your spouse to your parents or siblings or friends kills marriage
18- Not being steadfast/fervent in the spirit kills not only marriage but your life
19- Spurning correction and reprimand kills marriage.
20 - Always wearing a sad face and being moody kills marriage.
21- FEMINISM ADVOCACY kills marriage.
“A husband or wife did not have the right either to demand sex from his or her spouse or to refuse it, and there was a catalogue of forbidden sexual practices, notably homosexuality, bestiality, certain sexual positions, masturbation, the use of aphrodisiacs, and oral sex, which could incur a penance of three years’ duration. Nor were people to make love on Sundays, holy days, or feast days, or during Lent, pregnancy, or menstruation. People believed that if these rules were disobeyed, deformed children or lepers might result.”
― Alison Weir, Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Life
22- Uncontrolled or hot temperament kills marriage.
23- Not understanding your role and position in marriage as instituted by God kills marriage.
24- Not being sensitive to the spiritual, emotional and physical needs of your spouse kills marriage
25- When anything threatens the position/security of a wife, her reaction(s) will be detrimental to her marriage.
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26- Lack of knowledge of the Word of God kills marriage.
27- Pride & Ego kill marriage
28- I know it all kills marriage
29- Fault finding ministry kills marriage
30- Adultery kills marriage