How Does Biblical Love Express Itself in Marriage? Part 2

Yesterday, we considered 5 ways biblical love expresses itself (from Tripp's, What Did You Expect). Today, let's consider 5 more:

6. Love means being willing, when confronted by your spouse, to examine your heart rather than rising to your defense or shifting the focus.

7. Love is a daily commitment to grow in love so that the love you offer to your husband or wife is increasingly selfless, mature, and patient.

8. Love is being unwilling to do what is wrong when you have been wronged but to look for concrete and specific ways to overcome evil with good.

9. Love is being a good student of your spouse, looking for his/her physical, emotional, and spiritual needs so that in some way you can remove the burden, support him/her as he/she carries it, or encourage him/her along the way.

10. Love means being willing to invest the time necessary to discuss, examine, and understand the problems that you face as a couple, staying on task until the problem is removed or you have agreed upon a strategy of response.