Marriage--How do I Save Mine?

In today's society, dissolved relationships are running rampid like antelope on the open plains.  Divorce rates, especially among Christians, is as high as gold prices currently.  With that in mind, how do we save our own marriage from the very pitfalls of cruel reality?

One of the ways to make sure your marriage stays intact is to make sure communication takes place.  Not the kind where you talk at each other but where actual listening takes place and what is said is actually implemented.  As a couple, you are a partnership with shared responsibilities to one another.  There should be no space between you and your spouse as you go through the pains and joys of marriage. 

The other ingredient is unconditional love.  As you stood before the judge or preacher to be married there were vows taken to express and show the unity each of you pledged before both man and God.  Through sickness and in health, for better and for worse, till death.  Very strong vows and not just mere words.  When all else fails, love does not.

Enjoy each other in both the good times as well as the bad.  Support one another in the endeavor to remain united and always treat each other with the utmost kindness and respect.