Expectations … They’Re Not in the Bible!: Hop off the Highway of Expectations in Your Marriage and onto the Road of Respect.

By Laura Provencio

This book is for those of us who struggle with high expectations of our husbands. Expectations are not biblical.  Stop the expect and focus on the respect. The Bible tells us to respect our husbands and it is for our GOOD!

• Language: English
• Publisher: WestBow Press
• Release date: Mar 17, 2021
• ISBN: 9781664227620

Laura Provencio

Laura Provencio is a wife and mother of two cute teenagers. She has been married for 18 years to a wonderful man God created just for her. She enjoys reading, baking, and drinking coffee. Find out more at: www.lauraprovencio.com

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ISBN: 978-1-6642-2761-3 (sc)

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Library of Congress Control Number: 2021905287

WestBow Press rev. date: 03/17/2021

Contents

Preface

Introduction

Chapter 1 Define Marriage

Chapter 2 Newly Married

Chapter 3 Kids

Chapter 4 The Seven-Year Itch

Chapter 5 Ten to Twenty Years

Chapter 6 The Silver Anniversary

Chapter 7 Till Death Do You Part

Conclusion

This book is dedicated to my prayer partner Audrey Rodriguez.

Thank you for your prayers and encouragement

to write another book!

Put on then, as God’s chosen couple,

holy and beloved,

compassionate hearts, kindness,

humility, meekness, and patience,

bearing with one another and,

if one has a complaint against another,

forgiving each other.

as the Lord has forgiven you,

so you also must forgive.

And above all these put on love,

which binds everything together

in perfect harmony.

And let the peace of Christ

rule in your hearts,

to which indeed you were called

in one body.

And be thankful.

—Colossians 3:12–15

Preface

My husband and I were in premarital counseling when I heard for the first time in my life, You should not have any expectations of your husband. What? Did that counselor even know what she was saying? How can you not have expectations of your spouse? There was a laundry list of things I expected my husband to do. Thankfully, that kind