Lesson 11 Ways to Protect Your Marriage

In the world that we live in, there are so many temptations.  Unfortunately, one of those temptations can ruin your marriage.  More than likely, you know someone who has cheated on their spouse, or been cheated on.  This can happen for different reasons and in many different ways.  Even with so much temptation around, there are some things that my wife and I do that you can do to protect yourself and your marriage.

Early on in our marriage, my wife and I promised to be faithful to one another and wanted to take precautions to make sure that we put ourselves in a position to succeed.  One way that we help each other is that we share social media accounts.  We have had friends that just “wanted to catch up” with an old friend of the opposite sex.  It started out innocent enough but after many conversations, they went out on dates, and later began an affair.  When asked how they met, they said it was through facebook and if it hadn’t been for that, they never would have reached out to each other.  Another thing that we share is our email account.  That allows for communication to be monitored on all fronts without the idea that you can hide something from your spouse.  The last thing that my wife and I do is we have a couple’s inventory every month.  That allows us to know how we can improve as spouses and helps us to know what we can to do to support each other that we may not otherwise be doing.