Somehow, women are able to remember everything. This includes sins, times they were wronged, and disappointments. They are able to recount all these things.
The speaker has seen this happen many times. Slowly the individual become less thoughtful, less giving, less patient and become more distant because something has happened in the marriage. Something happened, some event, and one individual is unwilling to free the other person from the sin.
Many things will happen in a marriage (and any relationship). Some bad. But there is a beautiful thing called "Forgiveness."
A Terrible Petition
There is a portion in the Lord's Prayer that goes:
"[LORD] forgive us of our sins
as we have forgiven those those who sin against us"
This section is also called A Terrible Petition*.
If we don't forgive, it brings into question if we are truly forgiven.
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Footnote:
*I didn't write down much about the Terrible Petition, so I looked elsewhere online. I found this site that elaborated a bit more.
We all know to pray and confess our sins and we will be forgiven by the grace of God. But it doesn't stop there, the second line sounds like the way God treats us is tied to how we treat others. If we do not forgive others, God does not forgive you. Augustine called this part in the Lord's Prayer "a Terrible Petition" because if we pray the Lord's Prayer with an unforgiving heart, you are cursing yourself to not be forgiven. Preacher Charles Spurgeon described this as signing your own "death warrant".
Being unforgiving can lead to a whole host problems such as trapping yourself in feelings of resentment and bitterness, grudges, broken relationships, imprisoning yourself with addictions, creating a barrier between you and God, not living life as God had intended, hindering others' emotional and spiritual health, not welcoming God's blessings and forgiveness in your own life, becoming an enemy of God, and living an unfulfilled life.
Choose to forgive as an act of free will. Pray for the other person and do not judge them.
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