RELATIONSHIPS
Can a
Christian Wife and
WORLDLY HUSBAND
Have a Happy Family?
By Anna Brown, Family and Faith Magazine Writer
K
AY AND HER HUSBAND HAD BEEN MARRIED
the withdrawal of customary favours,
for a few years with their fair share of problems, but after
privileges and rights as punishment or
she became a Christian, things got worse. Her husband
had been drinking, getting into fights and cheating on her.
Family members and friends told her to leave him. Perhaps
some of them even quoted the verse - Be ye not unequally
yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath
righteousness with unrighteousness? (2 Corinthians 6:14) Can
couples who were “equally yoked” (i.e. got married while
neither partner was a Christian) but are now “unequally
yoked” (at some point during the course of the marriage one
partner became a believer) have a happy marriage?
A newly-converted husband or wife, aware that he or she was
not previously living in accordance with God’s commands,
may find him or herself struggling with associating the
marriage relationship, particularly the conjugal aspect, with
sin. The wife may fear that doing the things she used to do