Love Starved
I can't receive my husband with the mentality that I'm love starved because then I will make him the solution to my need for love instead of God ... and then I will get caught up in the desperation-compromise-manipulation cycle all over again (see previous post) instead of allowing him and I the freedom just to be ourselves. Being ourselves should always be enough because there should be no expectations placed on us from each other to provide something we may or may not have. I need to believe that God's love is sufficient for me. I need to know that God's everything is sufficient for me, and that I do not have to go outside of that relationship for any of my needs to be met. I want the relationship with my husband to be based on choosing to love him, regardless of what I get in return. I'll be choosing him, and he'll be choosing me, and that love will be independent from changing circumstances and situations. I want to always go to my husband whole; not bec