another. What is the larger vision that you and your spouse have given yourselves to? How would you rate the direction of your marriage? Sort of Aimless 1 2 3 4 5 Going with God 6. Your Children An author on the family for more than forty years, Howard Hendricks once said that nothing can be worse for a marriage than building it on children, and nothing can be worse for children than building a marriage on them. It may sound obvious, but I’ve seen a lot of couples get offtrack because they differed