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All Wives Want For Valentine’s Day

Love Words

 

Don’t Stop Talking About It

 
Some years ago, the comic strip “Small Society” showed a man talking to his wife. He is saying, “Of course you’re my valentine. Of course I still love you. I’ve just stopped talking about it.”
I believe that this is a problem in a lot of marriages today. It’s a problem because, when we stop talking about it two things happen. One: We fail to remind the other person how important they are to us and two: we fail to remind ourselves how important the they are to us.

Our spouse needs to hear the words of love. They need to know we value them and we bless them when we use words of affection and value. But we need to hear ourselves say them as well. When we speak these words, they imprint themselves on our brains and our hearts. The words serve as reminders of who this person is and who we are as well. We are forgetful creatures and we need the reminder.

I think this is a problem not just in marriages, but in other relationships as well. Parents and children need to talk about love with each other. They each need to say words of love to each other, and they need to hear themselves say them to the other.

We need to talk about our love for God. We need the reminder of how important He is to us. We need to remind ourselves that we do love Him.

The fact of the matter is that those who truly love can’t stop talking about it.