Determine to guard your mate’s secrets (unless they are dangerous to them or to you) and to pray for them. Talk with your spouse, and resolve to demonstrate love in spite of these issues. Really listen to them when they share personal thoughts and struggles with you. Make them feel safe.
He who covers over an offense promotes love, but whoever repeats the matter separates close friends. – Proverbs 17:9
This one is hard. I know that Levi has a lot of personal and internal struggles. And he used to open up to me all the time, but now I feel like I have to pry it out of him. It hurts me that he can't open up like that, but I know that I also put out a lot of hurtful words and say mean things about his past when I'm angry, which I know is bad... I know I need to be conscious about what things like that I say. I don't want to hurt him.
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