Do any Christians have stories of relationships/marriages restored?
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YES, I do. My husband and I were highschool sweethearts and were eachother's firsts love, first EVERYTHING. We were together for a couple of years and had a baby. About 3 years ago we almost got a divorce, I mean I moved back home with our son and everything.  We were seperated for a hole entire year, we actually had already filed for the divorce...it was in the process. Then one week he came home to visit some family and Ihe and I happened to be in the same place at the same time and we looked at eachother with such pain, but still true infinite love, we got together and talked all night about everything, I mean everything> The people who came between us, the hurt it caused, eveything. And when you find out that your first is no longer the only, it HURTS! Anyway we took things slowly, but we ended our divorce, and moved back together and we are better now than ever. T
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I am a Christian and my hubby and I got married in a courthouse. I wasn't pregnant or anything, we just decided it was time to get married. It had no effect on my relationship with God, and in fact parts of the Bible were said at our ceremony. It was blessed by God and I truly believe that.
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Yes, they are "rub away."\n\nAnd Christians don't believe in sex after marriage.  YOU do.  Lighten up and maybe you'll get a boyfriend who doesn't live in his parents' basement.
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No. As you have pointed out clearly with the scripture reference.\n\n"For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels of God in heaven."
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First marriage I knew him several years, then I dated him for about a year, then he proposed. HE cheated 3 months after we were married (maybe sooner) and continued to cheat for 3 years before I gave him the boot...It took a year to get the divorce back then...I would have left him sooner, but my family kept saying things would get better. After he gave me an STD (thank God it was something that could be cured), I divorced him! Stupid that I stayed with him for so long, it was like gambling with my life! I was miserable and I really began to hate him and the sight of him. In the end he beat me up and I made sure it the divorce was as nasty as I could make it.\n\nThen 14 years later I met a nice man on the Internet, I had said I would never get married again. Never say never...we "dated" online for about a year, (this was back in 1995-1996, we had a private chat program called PowWow, and we chatted EVERY night, then talked on the phone to say "goodnight". \n\nHe was in the Northern US, and I was in the South. He proposed online, sent me a picture of the rings and asked me if I would consider moving up North to share his life, and be his wife and partner. I said "Yes".\n\nIn November, we will have been married for 10 years, and aside from some health difficulties, it's been a very good marriage! He's my best friend, and we did not even have to go through a bunch of head games while dating. I was honest with him when we chatted, and I feel that he has always been honest with me. I was on the high side of my 30s and he was about 5 years older than me. \n\nIt really freaked my friends out, when I suddenly dropped out of my usual routines to spend time chatting with my online boyfriend.  All of my friends said that I was crazy, he might be an ax murderer, and all kinds of wild things!  When he came down South, we met, and the very next day we eloped! VERY ROMANTIC, and I remember when I signed the marriage license my hand was shaking and so was his! \n\nWe both took a BIG leap of faith, and I feel like God blessed us! Things could have turned out so differently! I say it depends on the people in the relationship and what they want in life, and what they may have experienced in the past. I met some real nice men between husband #1 and my husband now. I just was not ready to trust my heart to anyone else so completely. Two of them proposed to me, but I eventually broke off the relationships because I had issues with trusting them. A cheating spouse can make a person very suspicious and cause them to sabatage future relationships because they are suspicious. After my experiences, I say, I believe in love. I have learned that there are some good loyal and truthful men in this world, and you never know when you may meet the right man for you!\n\nIf it's worth having, give it time. I would have continued the Internet relationship longer if things had not developed as they did. I think I knew that he was a "keeper", and if he had waited longer to propose, I would have waited for him. Don't ask me how, but I fell in love with a man that I could not even touch! We typed so much that I typed the letters off of two keyboards. :D\n\nGood luck, and may God bless you and your future too!\nruthie~
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Many things.  \n\nA couple I can't tell you about (but praise God for forgiveness and second chances).\n\nThe thing I can tell you about is being an absolute rubbish husband for about 4 years of our marriage.  I was controlling, uncaring and put down my wife.  I even made her do all the work with the baby.  Thank God He changed me (though it took my wife being hospitalised for clinical depression to realise it) and for the marriage course that also helped my wife forgive me and helped me to see what a git I was.  http://themarriagecourse.org/marriage/\n\n4 years on we are now a different couple - and very much in love. When she talks about some of the stuff I said then, I simply can't believe it - it seems so alien now!
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this question has brought out the degree of dogmatic pig headedness that if have come to expect here!!!!\n\nto answer your question, i once new a catholic priest who left the church to marry a buddhist lady. although he remained catholic, they respected each other and were secure enough in their beliefs to accept the differences. I don't thinkk that many who answeed this question are mature enough to manage this.
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No. This is a very strict interpretation of "flee youthful lusts". There are many cultures that do carry this level of non-intimacy, it was very well portrayed during the time Michael Corleone was in Sicily. Also, in Bible days, there was no interaction at all before completion of the marriage ceremony.\n\nBut to specifically answer your question, no it is not addressed in the Bible.
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Absolutely, I was living in a life of sin and a good man whose patient love led me to Christ. It was up to me to develop the relationship with Christ myself, but his love and support along the way helped so much. If he had no re-entered my life when he did I would still be lost in sin if not dead.
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:}\na marriage between Christians who each love and honor God more than they do each other\n\nA marriage characterized by mutual love and support of each other.\nA man and wife drawn nearer to each other by each being drawn near to God.\n\nI would expect to see family devotionals and joint involvement with their church family, \nI would expect to find biblical principals taught to their children and a life governed by Biblical principals\n\nI think I would find a kind of Agape love rarely existent between humans.\n\nOh, I think problems might still occur but i think forgiveness would reign supreme\n\nI believe each would seek the others good. and perceive the other more highly than themselves\n\nthere would be little competition and allot of cooperation.
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No, but I married my best friend.\n\nI think it's pretty special to have built a very strong friendship before we had any romantic interest in each other.\n\nWe've only been married for a little under 2 years and we are raising 4 children together - 3 of mine from my previous marriage & our baby. I am sure that it is our very strong relationship that helps us get through the difficult times.
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There's a mircale hapenning to me every week. But one that's really outstanding is that my parents never got along. Their marriage was a total wreck. In my childhood I used to see my parents fight and my mom full of brewses and everything. they eventually divorced. Two moths after i accepted Jesus as Savior, I started praying for them, and in 2 weeks they started getting along, and ever since (it's been 4 yrs now)we've been living together and they get along alot better than married couples. God be glorious!
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Been there - one of the things that helped my wife and I clear out all the rubbish accumulated over 7 years marriage was us going on a marriage course together.\n\nI simply cannot recommend it enough - it has changed us around - website below to find the nearest course.
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Hi. I am a Christian woman. I am married now, but did have sex before marriage. I was not a Christian at that time, but did struggle with temptations as a Christian before marriage. I give all glory and credit to Jesus for giving my husband and I the strength to resist temptation before marriage. Our first kiss as a couple was at the altar.\nI think that a vast majority of people who claim Christianity as their religion either do not understand their claim well enough for it to be true and sincere in them or they are too caught up in the temptations of life and not caught up in the focus and strength of Christianity - namely Jesus Christ and His accomplishments in life, death, and the resurrection.\n\nIt is disturbing the number of people who claim allegiance to Christ and then fail to follow Him in His commands. None of us is perfect. Biblically we are all sinners in need of our Savior, Christ, and this issue is yet further proof that becoming a Christian isn't an instant fix of flaws. Christianity is meant to be a process of growing in relationship with the Savior who saved us once from eternal damnation in hell and is saving us daily from our own weakness toward sin which brings death into our lives (although some sins bring death of emotional, relational, social, spiritual, etc. not just the regular physical death you think of.) Those people who are truly "saved" and living daily in a relationship with Jesus Christ through His presence in our lives will WANT to or be motivated to "do the right thing" because we want to please Him. Those who claim Christianity as only a Sunday service or social lifestyle simply will not find the strength or reason, when it comes down to temptation, to do the right thing, or they do it for the wrong reason only to give in later. The reason is that they have not really "meet" Jesus Christ and confronted their need for salvation in a sincere way or they have, but they choose the religious box over the relationship that changes a life.\n\nI hope that helps a little. I applaud you in your stand for No Sex Before Marriage. That is an honorable decision that is too foreign in today's society.
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I am so sorry God forgive me but sentimentals answer was hysterical. my husband is here and we are just tickled, of course he wasnt serious. i hope.\nyeah one wife is the biblical way to go.
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Love based on GOD last for ever, u can read this book "Boy meets girl"\n\nWhich talks about the story of how the auther met and married his wife, Shannon. Where Harris's first book encouraged readers to throw off modern ideas of romantic fixation, Boy Meets Girl goes to the next level and urges single Christian men and women to pursue courtship, and ultimately marriage, thoughtfully and prayerfully. Knowing that many readers will balk at the idea of premeditated courtship, Harris insists that dating should not be emotional recreation but rather a careful decision rooted in obedience to God. While the anecdotes used to reveal true-to-life scenarios about dating pitfalls are somewhat elementary (and geared to those in their 20s), Harris succeeds in hammering home the point that obedience to God's word, selfless love, community, purity, and satisfaction in God are the most important aspect of any relationship. The last section of the book is particularly practical, discussing forgiveness of past sexual sin, questions to ask before tying the knot, and how an understanding of our sinful nature can lead to conflict resolution. For Harris's mere twentysomething years of life experience, his maturity and devotion to God are sincere evidence that he has indeed practiced what he has preached, resulting in a passionate relationship with the love of his life. --Jill Heatherly
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Sure, an old friend whom I've actually known since elementary school did just that. They've been together for the better part of 30 years! I think they waited until they were out of college though before actually tying the knot though. Anyway, now they're happily married with (at last count) three kids. I think a lot of what ties them together is that they are both very devout practitioners of their religion (Roman Catholic).