So many women make the mistake of neglecting their marriages after becoming moms.  As moms, we know that it's our responsibility to care for our children.  We feed, comfort, clothe, encourage, educate, discipline, nurture our children, and so much more.  We understand that caring for our children,and even tending to the home, is our responsibility, but so many of us forget to continue to care for our husbands and nurture our marriages.  Keeping the marriage strong is not just important for the sake of your husband's happiness and well being, it's also important to your own happiness and even more so for the happiness, security, and contentment of your children.

Children thrive under the umbrella of a loving and healthy marriage.  Children get a strong sense of stability from living in a loving, nurturing, and happy home.  This type of stability gives children from intact homes more confidence than children who come from broken homes.  They also have an easier time resisting peer pressure and staying true to the values and morals that you and your husband instill in them.  Children have an easier time respecting and listening to their parents when they present a committed, united front.

A good marriage serves as a wonderful model for your children.  Girls typically grow up to marry men that treat them as their fathers treated their mothers.  Boys learn how to be husbands by observing their fathers.  It's very hard to break this cycle.  Kids learn so much more by observing than they do from anything you attempt to teach them..."do as I say, not as I do" simply does not work.

One final note, though our children are very young (our daughter is 3 years old and our son is a year and half old), they are noticebly happier when they watch my husband and I hug, kiss, or display some other visible sign of affection.  Our children depend on us as parents to keep our relationship happy, loving, and committed, which in turn keeps our home loving, secure, and pleasant for the whole family.