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Every marriage should be guarded against external interferences. A married person must be very cautious about having a friend of the opposite sex. Ideally, your spouse should be your best friend. Pouring out your heart and sharing your emotions and feelings with someone of the opposite sex other than your spouse is emotional unfaithfulness; it displaces your spouse from her rightful position in your heart. It creates an emotional distance between you and your spouse.
Your spouse doesn't have to compete for your emotional attention with anyone. Most sexual encounters outside marriage are preceded by casual innocent friendships and inappropriate emotional intimacy.
Safeguard your marriage; honor and respect your spouse by cutting all inappropriate friendships and intimate ties with people of the opposite sex. You belong only to your spouse. “The two shall become one flesh.” Genesis 2:24. “Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate." Mark 10:9. -
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord. Colossians 3:18"Devotion: The virtue of submission is a good moral attribute that all Christians must exhibit. In the area of marriage, the principle is clear for the couple; the wife must submit to her husband and the husband must love his wife. It is quite sad sometimes that these principles are relegated to the background, leading to misunderstandings in marriage. In order to maintain sanity in marriage, women desiring to marry should marry men to whom they can submit.
Likewise, men should marry women they can love. Marriage is not compulsory; it is meant for those who want to live by the principles God has laid down for Christian marriage.