Your marriage can die from within if you neglect your promise to love, honor, and cherish your wife. Honoring and cherishing are your key actions in establishing this defense perimeter. (And this applies even if you’re single: you want to honor and cherish every date, just as you hope every guy is honoring and cherishing your future wife when he goes out with her.)
Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word…In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. (EPHESIANS 5:25-26,28)