Can One Spouse Save A Marriage?

Type the question into Google and in less than a quarter of a second it returns over two million links. Some lead to articles, others to “sure fire” products that promise to solve all marriage problems, and others to blogs that say one can and blogs that say one cannot.

Employing the slightest logic proves that one spouse cannot save a marriage. If a marriage involved only one person; one person could save it. By its very definition, marriage is a bond between two people. Therefore, if one leaves the bonds, the marriage is over, no matter how much the remaining spouse wants their marriage to continue.

Should the spouse wanting to save a marriage then give up all hope?

Absolutely not.

There are times when one spouse can do certain things that will likely lead the other to working out their marriage problems and salvaging the marriage. Continue Reading…

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  1. clementicat

    I have trouble practising this in real life. How can I pray and hope that my spouse will come back, but yet at the same time not cling to the hope that my spouse will come back? How is that possible? Am I not supposed to let him know that I would very much want him to come home?