How to Love Each Other More Than You Ever Thought Possible

Have you ever wanted to quit trying in your marriage?

Recently we had another one of those conversations that we’ve had hundreds of times in our marriage and I felt that familiar feeling…can’t believe we are here again…this is just too hard.

I’ve wanted to quit many times. Not quit as in divorce, but quit trying to understand, to be patient, to try harder, to keep growing and changing. I wanted us to resolve this once and for all even if it meant we called a truce and agreed that this was how it had to be.

The conversation that day was about sex.

In the baby and kid season of our marriage my overwhelming need was for sleep. The demands of pregnancy, nursing, sick kids, potty training, allergies, and injuries kept me on the go from the moment my eyes fluttered open till the last little one was finally asleep. And then I still had the kitchen to clean or the laundry to fold or some task that always called to my growing sense of adult responsibility. Much depended on me and it was exhausting.

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