Having fun is essential for a serious marriage!

SEEK GOD

FIGHT FAIR

HAVE FUN

STAY PURE

NEVER GIVE UP

Ecclesiastes 9:7-9 NLT
So go ahead. Eat your food with joy, and drink your wine with a happy heart, for God approves of this! Wear fine clothes, with a splash of cologne! Live happily with the woman you love through all the meaningless days of life that God has given you under the sun. The wife God gives you is your reward for all your earthly toil.

Having fun is essential for a serious marriage!

3 types of fun every married couple must enjoy:

Face to Face Fun

Song of Solomon 4:8-11 NLT
Come with me from Lebanon, my bride, come with me from Lebanon. Come down from Mount Amana…
You have captured my heart, my treasure, my bride. You hold it hostage with one glance of your eyes, with a single jewel of your necklace. Your love delights me, my treasure, my bride.Your love is better than wine, your perfume more fragrant than spices. Your lips are as sweet as nectar, my bride. Honey and milk are under your tongue. Your clothes are scented like the cedars of Lebanon.

Side to Side Fun

Song of Solomon 7:11-12 NIV
Come, my beloved, let us go to the countryside, let us spend the night in the villages. Let us go early to the vineyards to see if the vines have budded, if their blossoms have opened, and if the pomegranates are in bloom…

Belly Button to Belly Button Fun

Song of Solomon 7:6-10 NLT
(Solomon) Oh, how beautiful you are! How pleasing, my love, how full of delights! You are slender like a palm tree, and your breasts are like its clusters of fruit. I said, “I will climb the palm tree and take hold of its fruit.” May your breasts be like grape clusters, and the fragrance of your breath like apples. May your kisses be as exciting as the best wine…
(Bride) Yes, wine that goes down smoothly for my lover, flowing gently over lips and teeth. I am my lover’s, and he claims me as his own.

Man doesn’t know what happiness is til married—by then it’s too late. – Frank Sinatra

Without fun in a marriage, romance & sex lead to a marriage reduced to a business relationship.

2 people—existing in the same house—living two separate lives.

No one falls in love having a bad time & being bored. So boring…How many of you have ever been on a bad date? How fast did you get out of there?!

Let’s go out and paint the town red, then tomorrow we can go to the winery and look at the flowers!

Men especially crave side-to-side time.

Whenever Traci and I are out together, we always hold hands—if I let go—she shops.

Enter his/her world: Work trip, motorcycle, football game, fishing, golf.

Grocery store, Gardening, Canvas & Cocain, watch Hallmark movies and talk about the intricacies of the plot line.

I just want him to talk with me:

2 times when men are most likely to open up:

- - - - When he’s doing something with you he enjoys.
      - Right after he’s done something with you he enjoys.

Fun is not a luxury in marriage. If you don’t make time for fun in your marriage, you may not have a marriage for much longer!

Men: work on your approach: “I know you want this.”

Men can make anything sexual: change tire, mow yard.

Women: make an approach! Better in satin than in flannel.

Set a date, get baby sitter, nice dinner, light candles, bath, massage, turn on some Marvin Gaye. Little kids—Sofia the First, Peppa Pig, Paw Patrol—got 30 min!

Shocking revelation: Most men desire more sex.

Most women don’t realize this is a crisis, lack of sexual intimacy is as

emotionally serious to him as his sudden silence would be to you.

You are each other’s only legitimate way to find sexual fulfillment!

I don’t feel anything. Feelings follow actions.

Grass looks green—water your own yard!

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