How to Stand for What’s Right in Your Marriage

It’s important to know that while taking a stand may hurt your spouse, it will not harm them. This is an important distinction. Hurt is a sometimes necessary step to healing. Setting a broken bone, getting stitches, or having surgery all hurt, in that they cause pain, but they ultimately cause healing. Hurt is a temporary bump on the road to healthiness. It motivates us to seek healing. Harm is rooted in selfishness and ultimately causes more damage than it heals. When our bodies are working to heal from an injury, they may hurt, but that pain is an indication of healing.

The same is true when strong boundaries are necessary…