The document discusses five temptations that can challenge marriage: 1) Focusing on feelings of love over the power of love. 2) Focusing on getting more from your spouse rather than giving to them. 3) Focusing only on your own feelings rather than your spouse's feelings. 4) Focusing on your spouse's problems rather than finding mutual solutions. 5) Focusing only on actions to express love rather than both words and actions. It provides counter decisions to help overcome each temptation by focusing on things like power of love, giving to your spouse, their feelings first, mutual solutions, and expressing love through words and actions.

3. “ Marriage is challenging but it’s not complicated.”

4. Focusing more on the “feelings of love” rather than on the “power of love.” Temptation No. 1

5. 1 Corinthians 13:4-7 4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. 8 Love never fails…

6. Focusing on getting more from you rather than on giving all to you. Temptation No. 2

7. 1 John 4:9-10 9 This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. 10 This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.

8. Focusing always and only on my feelings rather than focusing first on your feelings. Temptation No. 3

9. Matthew 5:23-24 23 "Therefore, if you are offering your gift at the altar and there remember that your brother has something against you, 24 leave your gift there in front of the altar. First go and be reconciled to your brother; then come and offer your gift.

10. Focusing more on your problems rather than on our mutual win-win solutions. Temptation No. 4

11. Matthew 7:3-5 3 "Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? 4 How can you say to your brother, 'Let me take the speck out of your eye,' when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? 5 You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye.

12. Focusing only on action to express my love rather than on words and action together. Temptation No. 5

13. James 2:14-17 14 What good is it, my brothers, if a man claims to have faith but has no deeds? Can such faith save him? 15 Suppose a brother or sister is without clothes and daily food. 16 If one of you says to him, "Go, I wish you well; keep warm and well fed," but does nothing about his physical needs, what good is it? 17 In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead.

14. The Five Temptations Focusing more on the “feelings of love” rather than on the “power of love.” Focusing on getting more from you rather than on giving all to you. Focusing always and only on my feelings rather than focusing on your feelings first. Focusing more on your problems rather than on our mutual win-win solutions. Focusing only on action to express my love rather than on words and action together.

15. The Five Decisions Focus more on the “power of love.” Focus on giving all. Focus on your spouse’s feelings first. Focus on mutual win-win solutions. Focus on words and action to express your love.

16. “ Marriage is challenging but it’s not complicated.”