HeartfeltMarriage

When and where did marriage begin? And whose idea was it, anyway? Listen to the PODCAST! Marriage began in the Garden of Eden when “God put the Man into a deep sleep. As he slept He removed one of his ribs and replaced it with flesh. God used the rib to make Woman…” (Genesis 2:21-22) Listen to the PODCAST! As soon as Adam’s divine anesthesia wore off, the Father of the bride, God himself presented the Woman to the man. She was made by the hand of God specifically for Adam, and some say God made some very nice improvements! God was the first Father to give away the bride! The podcast is approximately 10 minutes. Listen to the PODCAST! An expanded version of the information in this podcast can be found in Dr. Ross's book, Seven Assumptions About Marriage -  Kindle Edition  or Print Edition ) on Amazon.com

Dr. Ronald D. S. Ross The day you were married is burned on your memory. You can recall every moment of it with little effort and hopefully, a lot of joy. Your engagement, the marriage ceremony, and your honeymoon were something you worked hard to achieve. The differences between a wedding and a marriage are significant; a wedding lasts a day but a marriage lasts day after day after day. Ideally, it should last a lifetime. You thought getting through your wedding day was something significant, and it was. However, getting through the first year is/was even tougher. Make it through the fifth year of marriage and the odds of you staying married for the rest of your life increase exponentially. To reach the goal of a lifetime happy marriage will take all the love and fortitude and forgiveness you have. When my wife and I said, “I promise … until death do us part,” we meant it. Every day of our 52+ years together demanded sacrifice, compromise, and pardon. The journey w...

A marriage based on a fifty/fifty arrangement is headed for disaster, asserts Dr. Ronald D. S. Ross in this 9-minute podcast!  If marriage were a business arrangement, then such a process just might work.  But it’s not.  Nor would we want it to be.  A business contract is a cold impersonal agreement made with the presumption that each party might fail to fulfill his responsibilities if not for a legally binding pact.  It is a loveless pledge which bears no resemblance to the covenant made between two people who have vowed to “have and to hold” through every trial of life.   If a couple endeavors to found a marriage upon such terms, it will be a bitter ordeal, and they will seek to end it long before their fulfillment of the vow “til death do us part.”  The podcast is approximately 9 minutes. For more, visit www.HeartfeltMarriage.com