5 Lessons Your Kids Learn Every Time You and Your Spouse DISAGREE

3. We demonstrate how to seek and offer forgiveness in marriage.

Sometimes, we are going to blow it.  We might lose our temper and raise our voice.  It happens.  The best way we can turn that negative situation around is by quickly recognizing the error of our ways and seeking forgiveness.

One of the best lessons our kids can learn from us is how to seek forgiveness and how to offer forgiveness.  The Bible tells us to seek and offer forgiveness quickly, and we have a golden opportunity to demonstrate this for our kids by how we treat our spouse when we are having an argument or disagreement.

I want my kids to know that even when I am upset with Dave, I love him.  There must be love at the baseline of an argument.  How can our kids understand this, if we never show them the process?

They must see us work through a disagreement from time to time, so they can fully understand how married couples navigate conflict resolution and forgiveness.  For more on how to do argue effectively, be sure to read, “4 BIG Do’s and Don’ts when Arguing with your Spouse”, by clicking here.