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Does success in marriage depend more on communication or obedience?

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Obedience to God is what exactly? Adhering to rules? Or is obedience best done naturally, implicitly? As if the law was written on our hearts?

Sounds like you've been reading C.S. Lewis. ;)

It's a good point you're making. A really good point. Honestly, it makes me understand some things about myself in the past that I hadn't really been able to explain before.

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So maybe the question should be: Which is more important, communication, or living as God decreed? Because non-Christian couples may very well live as God decreed, without it being obedience to Him.

Bingo! I think it's living as God decreed.

Loving and cherishing and submitting can't happen if you don't communicate, because there's no way to know another person without communicating with them, I don't think. So I guess the question in the OP is moot, because they're part of the same thing. :idea:
 
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