30 Days to a Better Marriage. Rude.

Nathan: 00:00

“Love . . . does not behave rudely”

Paul. 1 Cor 13:4, 5. Hi, it’s Nathan, and this is Day 10 of 30 Days to a Better Marriage. Yikes. Have you ever been rude to your spouse? Cut them off mid-sentence? Let a door slam in their face. Ignored them. Told an embarrassing story or crude joke? Spoken to them abruptly or failed to extend common courtesy?

There are some things we’d never do in public, but make excuses for doing at home. Does the most important person in your whole life desire to be treated with less honor than the random person at the grocery store or the neighbor across the street? Have mercy. NO!!! NEVER!! If keeping your job so you can bring home the pay check is more important to you than treating your spouse with dignity—then you’re behaving out of pure selfishness, and all the anniversary cards you’ve written are pure lies. Ok, truth is, we’ve all been rude to our spouses. What I’m really pushing for is to stop making excuses. When you catch yourself being rude—or when your spouse catches you—stop. Apologize. You’re better than that. Way better—you’re a the king’s child.

When we treat our spouses rudely by cutting them off mid-sentence, ignoring them, arriving home late with no heads-up or apology, we exhibit the highest form of self-interest possible. We prove without question that only one person matters in our world: ourselves. BUT Love “does not behave rudely.”