Hydrate your marriage.
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I started writing yesterday about needing to fill our spouses buckets. This led me to the thought I want to share today. Continuing the analogy of filling our spouses buckets; have you ever felt dehydrated?
Some estimate that up to 75% of Americans are chronically dehydrated. Dehydration negatively impacts physical and mental wellbeing.
As you know, I have been running every day, today was day 116 just in case not knowing was keeping you up at night. I know when I am running whether I have enough fluid in my body, especially when I am going for a longer run.
Just as our bodies require water to thrive and function as they should, our spouse and our marriage require emotional, relational, physical, emotional and spiritual hydration. When we allow our spouse or our marriage to become dehydrated in these fundamental areas then they, like running with too little water, will be harder and will struggle.
It is not our sole responsibility to hydrate our spouse. We cannot be everything our spouse needs and wants all the time whenever they want. But that shouldn’t excuse us from making continuous and honest effort to help our spouse and our marriage to stay hydrated.
I have observed that when people are running a long race, like a marathon, there are hydration stations along the way. Without these, very few runners would comfortably or successfully finish the race.
Love and marriage are like running a long-distance race, are we there waiting for our spouse to provide the marital hydration they need to keep running the race? If we fail to show up at too many of those stations, our spouse will almost certainly fail to finish the race.
None of us started the race of marriage hoping that we or our spouse would fail, and we never have to either, so long as we keep our spouse and our marriage sufficiently hydrated.
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