Has your spouse ever told you that they have a bad feeling about something you’re about to do? And what if it’s something you really, really want to do?
We’ve all been there—we’ve gone to do something and suddenly, without knowing why, we strongly feel that we shouldn’t do it. Sometimes we listen to that little voice and we avoid an accident or something else that would have been either emotionally or physically painful for us. Sometimes we don’t know why we felt like we shouldn’t do it. Other times, we don’t listen, and we do it anyway, and we may or may not learn the reasons why.
So why is it important to listen when our spouse’s intuition is ringing an alarm?
I would say that the most important reason to listen is that it honors our spouse. When we listen to their concerns, we are showing them that we value their input. We care about their feelings. We may or may not agree with them, but in marriage, that’s not always the key issue. When we love someone, we listen to them, and we care about their thoughts and feelings. That’s one of the ways we show love.
I also think that often, when we have a plan and we’re excited about it, we get so caught up in the excitement that we don’t listen to our intuition as carefully as we could. It takes someone else, someone who loves us, to point out to us the possible pitfalls of what we’re about to do.
I’m not saying that we should scrap all our plans because our spouse doesn’t like what we’re doing. What I’m saying is that we should be willing to take the time to listen to the other’s concerns, to sit down and problem solve and compromise so that both people feel as though they’ve been heard. And when one spouse really has a strong feeling about something, that’s definitely a time to talk it out and to be considerate.
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