5 Prayers for Wives That Don’t Feel Loved

Sometimes people take love for granted. This doesn’t just go for romantic relationships, but also marriage. The truth is, there’s no real relationship without love, and not feeling loved in a relationship can really hurt. While love isn’t everything in a relationship, love is an essential part of your marriage. If a woman isn’t feeling love in her marriage, it’s important that she first look inward. There are far too many women who blame their partner for not making them feel loved, happy or complete, when the simple truth is that each person’s obligation is to fill their own emotional tank. You must tend to your own emotional needs before you can tend to the needs of someone else. When you do tend to those needs, you become much less needy. Ladies, if you’re feeling a lack of love in your marriage, one of best sources to turn to is God. Not gossiping friends, family members with hidden agendas, or those of the opposite sex to fill a void you have. Turning to God will help you find the love and happiness you need to feel whole in your marriage. Here are five prayers for wives that don’t feel loved.

Help Me to Continue to Grow in Love

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If you’re feeling an absence of love in your marriage, it’s important that you restore that foundation in your marriage. You can turn to God who will help you to continue to grow in love and open you up to the power of intimacy. Also know that God has the power to strengthen love in your marriage. Believe that God has indeed given us His Holy Spirit and that we therefore have the Spirit’s power to enable us to live the life God intended for us. If there’s an absence of love or the feeling of it in your marriage, turn to God and ask Him to strengthen that bond between you and your spouse. You can begin with this prayer: Dear God, thank you for the gift of marriage. Thank you for allowing me to be a wife and thank you for my husband. I pray that my husband and I would continue to grow deeply in love with each other. May our understanding of each other and our needs increase, may we seek to serve each other always, and may we draw our marriage towards you God. I ask that You would speak to my husband every day and teach him Your ways. Help him and strengthen him as he leads me. Amen.

Help Me to Remain Committed

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Commitment is a conscious choice but it is always faced with the challenges of an unconscious brain. Despite how committed we may want to be, the unconscious brain, especially in those who want to be committed poses some serious challenges. Sometimes, we may deny the love our husbands are giving us because commitment keeps us answerable to our conscience and the resulting guilt feels like too much. When you’re feeling a loss of love and are trying to stand strong and be committed, pray this prayer: Dear God, I commit my marriage to You! Please help me to remain committed to my marriage no matter what may come. I trust in You to help me be a great wife. I trust in You during the hard days and the difficult challenges marriage brings. May You be honored by my marriage. In Jesus’ name. Amen.

Give Me Strength

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True love, the kind of love that keeps a couple together for a lifetime, is not a feeling but an attitude. It says, “With the help of God, I’m going to do everything I can to enhance the life of my spouse.” If you’re feeling unloved in your marriage, it’s important that you have an attitude that leads with words and actions that are beneficial to your spouse and stimulate warm emotions in your spouse. It’s also important that you have an attitude that encourages inner strength. If you’re feeling a lack of love in your marriage and need additional strength, pray this prayer: Dear God, please guide my footsteps today. Help me to be the woman that You desire me to be and the wife that my husband needs me to be. Give me the strength to put aside everything that hinders me from walking in virtue, and the wisdom to see when selfishness and pride stand in my way. Thank you for Your love, Your kindness and Your unfailing grace. Amen.

Help Me to Not Be Tempted

When your partner is tempted outside of the marriage, it can lead them down a dark path and when discovered can definitely have you sensing a loss of love and trust in your marriage. You can easily move from a natural human response into a danger zone. Sexual temptation is particularly problematic because it can lead to infidelity and eventually divorce. If you want to protect your marriage from temptation, pray this prayer: Dear God, I pray for my marriage right now. Please guard my relationship with my husband and protect us against elements that tempt us or taunt us to ruin what we have. Convict our hearts when we are wrong or unrighteous, fill us with a passion to get better, and bless us with a deep love for each other in Jesus’ name. Amen.

Give Me Peace

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A lack of love in your marriage will not enforce peace in your marriage when peace is imperative. It’s important that peace lives in your marriage. Power for love, joy and peace comes from the Holy Spirit. We need the Holy Spirit if we are to have lives – and therefore marriages – characterized by love, joy and peace. If we want to invite the Holy Spirit to produce His fruit in our lives, we must first turn to God and acknowledge that we need Him above all else. If you are experiencing a lack of love in your marriage and want to experience more peace, pray this prayer: Dear God, I pray for more peace in my marriage. Some days are difficult between us. Some days we argue and bicker and read each other wrong. I pray for Your peace to fill our hearts and home. I pray Your peace will be present in my marriage. In Jesus’ name. Amen.