Marriage Pledge

This pledge is of a religous nature, but I thought even without the religious overtones it could still apply and be helpful to most marriages.

Take Care,
Carol~
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A Pledge for Married Couples

I love the Lord who has created us, who has given his life so that we might live as part of his family eternally, who has shown us the ultimate example of self-giving love, who has made us one, and who through his Spirit enables us to love each other more deeply than we ever could in our own strength.

I love you because of your love for the Lord, your love for me, and because you have been willing to commit your life to me. I am thankful for your trust in me, your encouragement, your patience, your gentleness, and your gracious forgiveness of my imperfection.

Because of my love for God and my love for you, I promise that, with God’s help, I will attempt to be always faithful to your in my thoughts, my feelings, and my behavior. And I promise, with God’s help, to try to love you as fully as I can, so that no lack in our relationship leaves you unnecessarily vulnerable to Satan’s temptations.

If I am not meeting your intellectual, emotional, spiritual or physical needs, I want you to discuss this with me. I promise that I will try to meet those needs as much as I am able, and if I feel unable to meet any of your expressed needs, will explain to you why.

If you are not meeting my needs or desires, I will first try to determine if those needs or desires are reasonable.If they seem to be, I will share them with you, so that we can discuss how we might meet them in our relationship.

If I become aware of a relationship in your life that I believe makes you vulnerable to temptation, I will share my concern with you, and then allow you to restructure that situation as you decide. If you become aware of a situation in my life that you believe makes me vulnerable to temptation, I want you to share that with me. I promise to take your concern seriously and to make changes that will make you feel more secure and that will decrease my vulnerability.

If you become aware of feelings developing in your life toward someone else, I want you to share that either with me or with someone else with whom you feel comfortable. I will support your attempt to understand why those feelings have developed, what you can do to change them, and will make any changes in our relationship that would be helpful to you that I can. If I find that I am developing feelings toward anyone other than you, I will discuss that either with you, or with another Christian to whom I can be accountable, and will make whatever changes necessary to decrease the intensity of those feelings, and ultimately, to end them.

I love you, and today, I pledge to you anew my desire to always be faithful to you.



Husband_______________________________


Wife__________________________________



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