Have you ever been in a tough marital situation that ended all wrong, but you weren’t surprised because you knew the ingredients brought into that “situation” created a recipe for disaster?

What ingredients do you bring to your marriage that create a recipe for disaster? Insecurities, manipulation, baggage, a bad attitude…

My attitude plus my husband’s lack of communication are two ingredients that simply don’t blend well. Over the years, we both worked hard to leave these ingredients out of our marriage, however admittedly they still find their way into our marital recipe from time-to-time.

So how do we substitute these ingredients? We substitute them by doing the prep work to create a foundation that reminds us of what we want as the outcome of our marriage, (even if that means starting over from scratch)!

A few months ago, I discovered a podcast called, Mastering Marriage. The couple is dynamic in the fact they rebuilt a marriage after going through tribulations that would have absolutely broken today’s average married couple.  Prior to restoring their marriage, the ingredients they brought into their marital recipe (specifically the husband) created a recipe for disaster. They essentially started over from scratch and restored their marriage with ingredients of unconditional love, effective communication, and friendship. I wanted to share an episode that stood out to me: The 10 things your marriage should be built on. Click here to listen to it (the Mastering Marriage podcast is also available on iTunes and Google Play).

XO, Rhea

Rhea