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he extent to which a user enjoys a product depends largely on the user’s willingness to painstakingly go through the manufacturer’s manual. After using a particular mobile phone for about 10 months, we realised while skipping through (not reading) the manual that it has a particular function which made life much easier. Many (if not most) of us have mobile phones, appliances and products which we are only enjoying just the basic functions, not because we enjoy mediocrity or are satisfied with just the minimal, it’s just that we couldn’t be bothered (or more dignifying, “had no time”) to read the manu-
facturers’ manuals. That same attitude seems to be carried into every aspect of our lives, including love relationships; such that, instead of having a blissful and enjoyable love life as the Manufacturer intended, many are just religiously coping or agonisingly enduring. Friends, we discovered from the “Love Manual” that our love life is to be enjoyed not endured, however, it’s entirely up to each marriage partner to make a choice. We will like to say it again that, “no marriage is destined to fail, and no marriage is immune from failing”; each partner only need to be conversant with the Manual, to enjoy love life as intended. John Hagee said: “Your marriage can be a better marriage, or it can be a bitter marriage. The choice is entirely up to you”. Since 42
the manual of a product plays a very significant role in enjoying the product, it follows that, for any spouse to enjoy the product called “marriage/love relationship” to the maximum, such must make time to go through the “Love Manual” - Holy Bible. It is the manual for enjoyable living and not just for adherent of a particular faith. Let’s consider few tips contained in this “Love Manual”:
Husbands A key enjoyment tip for the husband goes thus: “And you husbands, show the same kind of love to your wives as Christ showed to the Church when he died for her” (Ephesians 5:25). For an enjoyable union, every husband will do well to search through the Manual to study how Jesus loves the Church.
