Emotional Love Versus Intentional Love

by Rev. Sophia Okunowo | Oct 26, 2021 | Couples

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The opposite will always attract in marriage. You fell in love with your spouse because he/she is different from you. This is so not to encourage disagreement but to bring a different viewpoint into your covenant relationship.

Your love should move from being emotional to being intentional. This is where commitment, maturity, and understanding come to play.

You don’t do marriage because of feelings, you do because of commitment and respect to God who instituted marriage

Emotional love is when you have butterflies in your belly. When your spouse is so nice, loving, caring and he/she is just dope. No faults. No flaws. Everything is just right about them.

But you move to a point of maturity when even though you don’t feel loving towards your spouse because of what they have done or what they have not done, you are intentional and committed to doing those things that keep the love alive.

You don’t kill the embers of the fire of love. You keep on servicing love. Serving and maintenance is an important part of anything we hold dear and anything of value to us that we use.

We maintain our cars, clean up and repair things in our houses so also we should be ready to service our marriage.

Just because things are broken in your car or house doesn’t mean you throw them away.
You are committed to spending your money and time fixing whatever needs to be fixed.