By Kayla DeKraker
Country star Thomas Rhett and his wife Laura Akins prioritize their marriage, even in the midst of their busy lives.
“I feel like the [best pieces of advice] that are helping most days now, just with our life in total chaos publicly, but also just at home with four little girls, is don’t take it too seriously,” Akins said on Sadie Robertson Huff’s “WHOA That’s Good” podcast. “Learn to laugh a lot through a lot of things. One of my best friends is like, ‘I just laugh to keep from crying.’ I do think that helps a lot of times. But I think just in marriage, I think staying best friends.”
Rhett chimed in, saying, “I feel like it changes for me every year, the bits of advice, because it’s different in your first couple years of marriage than it is when you get past the 10-year mark, and we’re going to celebrate 13 years this year, which is crazy,” he said. “But I think it’s so cliche because I’ve heard this for so long, but I think learning…how to date your wife even when you’re, you know, five years, 10 years in.”
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He added, “I do think it’s really easy, especially once kids start coming in the picture, to become roommates or just like joint parenting partners. You know what I’m saying?”
He emphasized the importance of asking, “What do you need from me?” and sacrificing for one another.
“And she’s like ‘I just want you to get up at 6:00 in the morning so that we can read our Bibles together and we can have 30 minutes before the chaos begins,'” Rhett said, adding, “And what’s so funny is that waking up for me is the hardest thing on the planet.”
Akins said, “That’s like the one thing he’s like, ‘Why? Anything else, like I’d rather go paint the whole house.'”
Rhett continued, “But just I think just continuing to ask each other like in seasons of life, like, ‘Hey, what are you lacking from me and how and how can I do better in that area?’ I think just learning how to be intentional.”
Love often requires sacrifice, which Rhett and Akins do their best to do. John 15:13 says, “Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.”
In fact, married couples who live out their Christian faith are less likely to get divorced. One study explained, “For those who were active in their church, the divorce rate was 27 to 50 percent lower than for non-churchgoers. Nominal Christians — those who simply call themselves ‘Christians’ but do not actively engage with the faith — are actually 20 percent more likely than the general population to get divorced.”
Marriage can be difficult, but through love and sacrifice, it can become a healthy and Godly example to others.
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