Marriages

I am working through The Power of a Praying Wife by Stormie Omartian--wow, there is so much I was never told about marriage.

I think that I and many of my friends feel marriage is about happiness, and when the initial excitement is gone, then the marriage must be doomed.

We have two close friend couples at the point of separation right now. Its very hard. Its where my husband and I were in July, but they've moved past us and neither couple is sleeping in the same bed or even house tonight. Is there anything I can do but pray? They believe, but don't believe that God has much to do with them. But neither did I a few years ago, right? How do you tell your friends that they're about to make the worse mistake of their family's life? Its the wives initiating the separations, both couples have two little kids, and all four adults are well educated and have good careers. No adultery or addictions etc. The enemy really has his hold on them. How did we move past that point and how do we encourage them to come back to each other? We love all four of them, and its really hard. We pray for them, together and separately.