You don't share your issues with your bestfriends, father, mother, brother or sister, before you share them with your spouse. Remember when you said, "For better or worse, in sickness and in health"? They should have also included "When you have a bad day. When your boss gets on your last nerve. When you get laid off. When you get a promotion." It seems like we are so quick to call that buddy for a drink or tell the girls "we need a girl's night out", instead of calling your spouse and saying, "Guess what, I got a promotion" or "I'm having a bad day today".
If you are not putting your spouse first, I have to ask, why not? Are they not the person you chose to share your life with? Are they not the person laying next to your every night? Are they not the person that helps you financially? There for you when you are sick? Helps you with the kids? So why not give them the respect they deserve of being the one that shares in your joys and pains first? The person you turn to for advice and guidance. It's God, husband, kids, family, everyone else, self. For men, it should be God, wife, kids, family, everyone else, self. Love God with all of your heart and love your neighbor as you would love yourself.
So, the next time you get good news or bad news, turn to the one that's there for you. Re-evaluate your relationship make your spouse your priority over your friends, over your family. Your marriage should include God, your spouse and you (in that order). Ladies, if you have a good man, you will never have to worry about your kids. Men, you have a wife that will be there for you, so throw the fishing pole away. You have caught the last fish in the sea for you. Put God first and grow in His grace and grow together with one another.
