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Marriage brings a ton of benefits to men. This isn't something many talk about in our hedonistic self-centered culture. People often focus on what marriage and family take away from us as men. Marriage isn't the end of who we are as men. Marriage helps men grow and expand their gifts. It challenges them in powerful ways and makes them better men.
Encourages Our Intimacy
- One of the biggest benefits of marriage for men is the fact that it pushes them into the journey of intimacy
- Building intimacy is different from winning someone
- Building intimacy takes lots of time together and a new level of familiarity
- Men have to learn how to get closer to their wives and really know them in an emotional way and not just a physical way.
- Men have very powerful emotions and when they learn to channel them toward their wives, they build deep and lasting relationships
- If men never grow in their emotional side, they lack a big part of what makes them a powerful man
Focuses Our Purpose
- Marriage moves a man from the focus of me to we
- This broadens a man's purpose from a self-centered focus to a higher focus - his wife and ultimately his family
- This challenges a man and pushes him to grow and step up in how he lives and thinks
- This is a powerful motivator for men to sacrifice
- Men understand this in a large sense, but with a family, it is brought to reality in his life
- Having a family helps to direct and focus our attention
- When men are responsible, they tend to step up
- A man's purpose is always better when it is focused outside of himself
Builds a Lasting Legacy
- Many men live with a desire to do something significant with their life
- Marriage gives men the greatest opportunity to bring significance to their world
- Marriage and kids are a built-in legacy for every man
- Healthy Marriages are an Example
- Kids will Outlive You
- Regrets Won't Own You
