[miss marmelstein]

The grass is always greener on the other side but, in fact, it is crab grass and nastier to get rid of than the decent seed you originally sowed.

[gorush]

[fwdude]

True. We don’t have “soul mates,” we have “commitment mates.”

[Pres Raygun]

The whole soulmate idea is just snother symptom of our narcissistic culture.

[Seruzawa]

Better to find someone who has similar interests and especially similar goals in life.

[Mechanicos]

How do they define Christian? Many secular social clubs and false teachers call themselves Christian.

[ExSoldier]

BOOKMARK

[thackney]

marriage is all about me

Actually it is. But people get confused.

It is not what all I can get out of it.

It is about what all I can put into it.

[RatRipper]

The “soul mate” idea suggests that marriage is all about me, that I need to find someone who understands me perfectly, who makes me happy.

BINGO!!! I have lived it. I did not make her happy. She deserved to be treated like a princess (her words, not mine) and I did not treat her that way. I could go on for hours. . . . Bottom line, it is selfishness, from either side, that threatens marriage.

[stylin19a]

C.S. Lewis prefaces the Screwtape Letters with:
"Readers are advised to remember that the devil is a liar. Not everything Screwtape says should be assumed to be true even from his own angle".

Which makes The Screwtape Letters a bitch to read and Eric Metaxas' analogy suck.

[TexasFreeper2009]

Most “soul mates” are nothing more than a person willing to do whatever it takes to get and keep who they want.

This is the reason why so many “soul mates” are ugly women.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Bravo to Eric Metaxas!

[Major Matt Mason]

The "soulmate" concept is one fully embraced by the female species. I saw a video once where a 20-ish woman referred to her dog as her soulmate. No one aasked the dog's opinion, though.

[Jim W N]

From the bottom of my heart, I believe it is because by-and-large, with the possible exception of the South, women, whether Christian or non-Christian, are not raised to honor and subject themselves to their husbands as unto the Lord, obeying them as their head.

“Feminism” (applied opposite of its actual meaning in an Orwellian way like “liberal”) and the Women’s movement have not only created a bloody infanticide of 70+ million unborn but is the main cause of family, and, therefore, societal, breakdown.

Women have quite a price to pay to be married. If they are brought up to compete with men (almost all are), or not to cherish and embrace their true feminine nature, or not trained for such, or not a believer who is teachable to change in God’s hands, they are likely to fail. The beautiful, honorable, admirable, and desirable apparel of a married woman is thus: “a meek and quiet spirit which is in the sight of God of great price. For after this manner in the old time the holy women also, who trusted in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands; even as Sara obeyed Abraham calling him lord...” (1 Pet 3:4-6).

[Twinkie]

Fifty-one years here & still standing at 69. - When you get old, you NEED each other. It isn’t glamourous; but it’s reality. - Forgive each other EVERY day; then stand up and deliver. - Trust in the Lord & don’t be a smart aleck. - Oh, and any “green grass” you might think is on the far side of that hill reeks & stinks because it’s really just a great big pile of green diarrhea that only resembles a good looking woman or man in your deluded mind. - Twinkie’s just telling you like it is.

[NorthMountain]

Marriage can be wonderfully satisfying, but that’s the result of God’s grace, hard work, and self-sacrificial love. And that is the truth.

Amen.

[Salvation]

**Marriage can be wonderfully satisfying, but that’s the result of God’s grace, hard work, and self-sacrificial love. And that is the truth.**

So true.

[SumProVita]

ALL Christians need to see the movie, the WAR ROOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Jeff Chandler]

True. Looking for unconditional love? Get a Labrador Retriever.

[CatherineofAragon]

Well, Mr. Metaxas, you can poo-pooh the concept of soulmates all you want, but the fact remains that I married mine nineteen years ago.

I don’t apologize for it, either, because he is a blessing.