Being Spiritual as a Mature Couple (Part 1)
Depending on when the last child was born, couples may expect to have many years together without children. A husband and wife who have had children young, may live together for up to forty plus years without kids in the home. Unless death comes first, you will be spending a significant amount of time with your spouse when you are older. It is important that you continue to work on this relationship as husband and wife anticipating those coming years. God wants faithfulness “’til death do us part.” This will require some amount of planning. Additionally, couples must be faithful to each other to continue to set the example for adult children who decide to marry and rear their own children. Our purpose of bringing up godly children does not end when the children leave the home. We set an example of godliness until death.
Couples who are friends will have a much easier time adapting to life after kids. Maintaining friendship while children are in the home is important. It establishes a pattern of behavior with one another upon which you may draw and expand when the children have left the house. Friendship will certainly include a host of fun activities in which to participate. Having “dates” where couples go out and enjoy one another’s company without children is a good idea. However, friendship is not all fun and games. True friendship requires sacrifices which is not easy. The older we get, the more sacrifices we make. Friends will stick together, and they do not abandon one another even under difficult situations. Proverbs 17:17 says, “A friend loves at all times, And a brother is born for adversity.”
God bless you, and I love you.
Kevin Cauley