Marriage

If your loved one starts acting strange, distant, wants to play video games all night or watch TV for hours and gets angry at the slightest things then there is a deeper issue.  Some part of their life is causing them so much stress they can’t cope.  They would rather “check-out” for the evening by playing video games or watching TV.  For hours they leave their reality and escape.  What do you do?  The natural and easy response is to lash back or find your own ways to “check-out.”  However, since God brought you together and you are his helpmate then you must do what seems like the hard thing.  Love him.  He’s being bratty… love him.  He’s really screaming for help.  He doesn’t know or understand his stress to be able to communicate it and perhaps doesn't want to appear weak by sharing.  Love him, pray that God will reveal the issues to him and pray for him to have strength to be the man God has destined him to be.  We underestimate the stress on people today.  There’s pressure to perform at work, wrong thoughts from co-workers and bosses coming at you all day, there’s constant mountains to climb, pressure to produce money, to provide, bills weighing, children needing you, wanting to be a good dad example, wants you don’t think you’ll ever get and lost hope.  Plus, some men are trying to birth something and just the weight of carrying the “baby” is too much because the vision and dreams are so large.  These are just a few examples of stress in people’s lives.  Be gracious to one another and choose to go through life together.  The key is love and prayer.  You can make it.