Is your marriage a competition?
Is your marriage relationship more of a competition than a partnership? A new article at the Winning at Home ministry describes an all-too-common situation in marriages:
…he makes a certain amount of money at work, so she does everything he can do to earn a paycheck that’s bigger. Or she devotes only three hours per week to household chores, so he proclaims that she won’t spend more than three hours on it himself.
Back and forth we go - battling for equal shares, for just as much fun, for the more significant contribution, and for identical time spent scrubbing the toilet. In some marriages, this competition is constant; twenty-four hours a day and seven days a week, the relationship is a rivalry.
It’s common for marriages to fall into this trap–but sometimes a simple change of focus can radically improve your relationship with your spouse. If your marriage is being ground down by continual small-scale rivalries like this, the article offers some good ideas for breaking out of the habit of competition.
