Is your spouse your friend?

This week one of my friends close family members died. She stated how hard it would be on the spouse becuase they had never had children and were reallly best friends. She said, "They actually liked one another". I like my husband, and we have children and we are best friends. As I looked around those at the table, I realized that I was the odd one out. Most of the people there were not friends with their spouse. Its really a sad thing for me to think about. Are you friends with your spouse? When you go out to eat, (or maybe have a meal together at home) do you talk to one another? Or are you like the couple I saw that each one was texting and talking on the phone through the whole meal. It was a nice resturant and they should have been enjoying the food and one another. Do you tell your spouse every day that you love them? Are the two of you just living in the same house or do you actually share a life in the house? What kind of example are we setting for our children? Do they see you laughing and sharing love with one another? I hope that if anything ever happens to me or my husband that people will say, "I sure willbe hard on him/her, because they were best friends." To me that would be the greatest testimony of the love that Christ has put in our lives. Think about it, what would you want said about you? More important....what do you want in your marriage today? For starters, think about what it was about your spouse that caused you to fall in love with them in the first place? When they do that now does it irritate you or do you even notice. Remember the early days of love and romance and bring them back. Oh yeah, tell one another "I love you" at least 2-4 times a day. It won't kill you, I promise.