Sandra Stanley on Marriage Words

Sandra Stanley’s wise words about words:

While nothing was dramatically wrong in their relationship, they realized what had begun as humor and innocuous teasing had slowly become a bad habit. The bad habit grew into something more significant, eroding the once-healthy respect and affection that had characterized their early marriage years….

A few thoughts to consider…

• It’s the little things that add up and become really big things. A marriage isn’t rocked to its core by affairs and addictions only.
• Even for couples with great senses of humor, making the person you love the brunt of the joke cuts more deeply than you think.
• Dishonoring your spouse, even in the smallest ways, quickly becomes a pattern and snowballs.
• Little cutting comments lodge in the heart and eventually drain affection.
• Little life-giving comments also lodge in the heart and enrich affection.
• The way you talk to your spouse is most likely the way your sons and daughters will talk to theirs.
• The way you talk to your spouse is most likely the way your sons and daughters will allow themselves to BE talked to by theirs.