I was asleep but my heart was awake. A voice! My beloved was knocking (Song of Solomon 5:2). Marriage has a way of robbing our relationship of adventure and romance.
Now, our God, what shall we say after this? For we have forsaken Your commandments (Ezra 9:10). Anything of spiritual significance must always begin in one place—in personal, individual repentance.
Each individual among you also is to love his own wife even as himself (Eph. 5:33). The longer you are together, the more things you learn about this man or woman that are not very pleasant, not too pretty.