If you want your love to die, just do nothing. It won't be long before the fire is out. Many couples simply fail to do the maintenance required to keep the love between them alive.

1. Sustain love in your marriage in 2018
Love, romance, passion—we all want it. We all
spend our lives searching for it. But few of us
actually find it. Finding love, developing love,
growing in love, and recovering lost love is all that
is needed to continue in marriage.
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2. • Marriage isn’t just about sex, but about
intimacy – emotional, physical and spiritual.
This is a commitment which is supposed to
take priority over every other relationship,
second only to our relationships with God
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3. • All couples enter marriage expecting their
passion to stay as vibrant through the years
as the day they wed. But without work and
attention, many couples find themselves
years later lacking excitement in their
marriage. They spend less time together,
have fewer conversations and less intimacy.
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4. • In the beginning, passionate feelings
flourished without much effort, and romantic
gestures seemed to come easily. But after
awhile, routine settles in and many couples
forget to do the things that keep their love
alive.
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5. • Sustaining first love in marriage is a great
task that married couples must face for the
success and happiness of their marriage. It is
easily abandoned as a result of other marital
pressures or challenges.
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6. • First love in marriage, if sustained, is like oil
that makes the marriage run smoothly. The
relationship will be fresh every day. Couples
will always enjoy their companionship when
they sustain their first love for each other.
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7. • Many people wonder why marriages crash
after the lavish of adoration, fondness,
devotion and passion during courtship and
honeymoon. The simple reason is that those
fantasies which brought and held them
together were not maintained or retained.
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8. • It takes determination to maintain them -
determination that over-rides every
contending factor which will want to
puncture those fantasies.
• Love embodies adoration, fondness, devotion
and passion and creates an impression in the
mind that something is good for you and you
desire it, and sometimes, get it.
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9. • Love in marriage should be sustained by the
fond memories of courtship and honeymoon
days. Your marriage should be growing
stronger in love instead of depreciating.
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10. • After all, old wine tastes better, they say. The
more you stay together, the more you
understand yourselves. And you are expected
to use the understanding to build a stronger
and more affectionate relationship in your
marriage.
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11. How to sustain your first love in
marriage.
• 1. Remember what you used to call your
spouse during the courtship or honeymoon.
That name; return to it. Some abandon that
name of their spouses immediately they get
their first baby or as they grow older in the
marriage. They allow their baby's name to
take over the name of their spouse.
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12. • 2. Remember also the passion you had
towards your spouse. Never allow monotony
to set-in in your marriage. Relive that passion
daily and your marriage will be fresh
everyday.
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13. • 3. Stay as close as you used to be in the
beginning. Desire the presence of each other
all the time. Employment or any other
activities should not put you apart.
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14. • 4. Make exchange of gifts a regular feature in
your marriage. Keep diaries of important
dates in your lives. Such dates as birthdays,
wedding anniversaries, your first meeting etc
should be celebrated yearly.
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15. • 5. Remember your first meeting from time to
time and tell your spouse how his or her
entrance into your life has been a blessing.
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16. • 6. Relive your honeymoon by spending some
time away alone without the children and
take time to be outside your home.
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17. • REFRESH YOUR
MARRIAGE
• The fading of romance can be really hurtful
and damaging. Right now if you knew how to
get things back the way they used to be, go
ahead and do them. There is great gain in it.
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18. • If you are no longer intimate with your
spouse then the problem started a long time
ago. I would assume that you and your
spouse are experiencing communication
problems as well. The lack of intimacy is a
sign of more serious problems.
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19. • You need to address the problems that are
causing you and your spouse to become
distant to each other. It's very difficult to be
intimate with your spouse if there is an air of
resentment between the two of you. You
need to solve the disputes between you and
your spouse and leave them in the past.
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20. • Keeping the romance alive is very necessary
when it comes to keeping a marriage happy.
• You should never stop saying I love you.
• Always say those affectionate things you used
to say when you first got married. Never take
each other for granted.
• You need to make time for each other. It's
really hard to be intimate when you are not
spending time together.
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21. • In a love relationship between a man and a
woman, the romance is the physical evidence
of the love that exists. When that
relationship progresses to marriage, the love
built between the man and woman only
grows deeper as the bond is made stronger
through the intimate union of body and soul.
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22. • Make changes today. Don't wait any longer. Your love
relationship can only take so much neglect. The
flames of your love can only take so much dousing
with water before the fire goes out. Stir up the
embers, take the action God requires.
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23. • Every action of love is like throwing another log on
the fire. The more you take deliberate actions of
love, the more the fire blazes. You will naturally be
attracted to the warmth of this kind of relationship,
and it will naturally draw you closer together.
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24. • If you want your love to die, just do nothing. It
won't belong before the fireis out. Many
couples simply fail to do the maintenance
required to keep the love between them alive.
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25. • Yes you can sustain your marriage in 2018.
Your spouse is the greatest gift God has given
you. Make your spouse better than you
found him/her. Grow is alive and is supposed
to grow.
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