Marital love is meant to be a reflection of God's Absolute love to us. Eph 5:28 "In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself."           Love shown to your wife is better than loving yourself.     Eph 5:29-30  "For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church, because we are members of his body."            Now we who are called to believe in and love Jesus are cared for and nourished by Absolute Love.     Holding fast to your spouse is a picture of Christ holding fast to you. Don't trivialize your responsibility in love.   Eph 5:31 "Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh."        Absolute love is a profound mystery we will mine that mystery throughout eternity.   Eph 5:32 "This mystery is profound, and I am saying that it refers to Christ and the church."         Give your love the unyielding respect, you are loving yourself by doing so,.   Eph 5:33 "However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband."