Below are marriage counseling which me and my wife have gone through before my marriage solemnization.
Genesis 2:24 For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.
Spice Girls song '2 Become 1'. You and your wife will become one union body under God Marriage.
Ephesians 5:24-25 Therefore, just as the Church is subject to Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything. Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the Church and gave Himself for her.
Wife should be obedient to her husband. Husband should love his wife.
Matthew 19:6 So then, they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate.
For Christianity, there is no such thing as divorce. Once you get married, it is for life.
Malachi 2:15-16. ..... He seeks godly offspring ...... For the LORD God of Israel says that He hates divorce.
We need stable marriages to produce godly offsprings. Therefore, God does not approve of divorce.
1 Corinthians 13:4-8. Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no records of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails.
You need to know what God expects how we should love our wife.
Psalm 127. Unless the LORD builds a house, the work of the builders is useless.
Seek God to help build our marriage.
Notice the husband need to quit pornography to save his marriage. The satan's pornography will zap away your wife fate, making you divorce your wife.
Notice the husband need to give up his price yacht dream ship to save his marriage. If you keep buying expensive non-necessary items, you will not have enough money for your marriage.
Male. I _____, take you _____, to be my wedded wife. To have and to hold, from this day forward, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness or in health, to love and to cherish 'till death do us part. And hereto I pledge you my faithfulness.
Female. I _____, take you _____, to be my wedded husband. To have and to hold, from this day forward, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness or in health, to love and to cherish 'till death do us part. And hereto I pledge you my faithfulness.