It is said that there are 5 levels to truth telling.

• First, tell the truth to yourself.
• Second, you tell the truth to yourself about another.
• At the third level, you tell the truth about yourself to another.
• Then, you tell your truth about another to that other.
• Finally, you tell the truth to everyone about everything.

Its ironic that a healthy marriage requires telling the truth at all of these levels, but if we can all be honest, telling the truth can be one of the most challenging things to do at times.  It is challenging because we fear the truth will make things worse, or make you look like a bad person.

I learned the value in telling my wife the truth early on in our marriage when struggling with insecurities and the effects of issues from the past. I despised the person I became when I hid things from her, and I would come up with every excuse to why I shouldn’t share those personal things with her. But, then God revealed to me that this was all apart of the process to make us one! These are 3 benefits to sharing the truth with your spouse.

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