WHOLESOME COMMUNICATON - A Key to a Good Marriage

Conclusion of How to Promote Wholesome Communication

Yes, how something is said is very important.  the apostle Paul wrote:  "Let your utterance  be always with graciousness, seasoned with salt."  (Colossians 4:6)  Endeavor to be gracious in your tone of voice and choice of words.  Bear in mind that "pleasant sayings are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul and a healing to the bones." -Proverbs 16:24.

For some couples, working together on projects at home can provide a fine atmosphere  for communication.  Such cooperation can promote a sense of sharing while affording time for wholesome conversation.  For other marriage mates, a quiet time alone together without trying to do some work is better and is more conductive to wholesome  communication.

Much can often be learned  by taking note of how compatible marriage mates communicate with each other.  What  has made them that way?  Most likely, their harmony and the ease with which they communicate have resulted from personal effort, patience and loving consideration.   They themselves apparently had a lot to learn, for good marriages do not happen automatically.  How important it is, then, to consider your partner's viewpoint, to appreciate his or her needs, and to defuse potentially stressful   situations with a discreet word.  (Proverbs 16:23)  If you are married, then, work at being pleasant to live and easy to apologize to.  That will go along way in making your marriage a good one.

Jehovah God wants  people to enjoy happy, lasting marriages.  (Genesis 2:18, 21)  But the key lies in the hands of those united in wedlock.  It takes two loving people who really work together to unlock the door to a  successful marriage by mastering the art of wholesome communication.

Next time: Philip A Zealous Evangelizer

Watchtower, 2000