In March my husband and I will celebrate 15 years of marriage - Glory!This did not come without trials, heartaches and pain.
You all know that, (I wrote a book about it) But that's not all we had to go through.
There were days I wanted to run for the hills and vice versa.
I also had days that I was floating on a cloud of love never wanting to come down.
To this day I can say I am still "in love" with my husband.
He is my friend, husband, partner and my lover.
I love me some him! He rocks my world.
Marriage is not a cake walk.
It is WORK! But you must be willing to put in the work.
It seems like people treat marriage like vehicles.
We trade up (or sometimes down) when we don't smell that"new"smell in the car anymore.
The brakes start sticking and low and behold you have to get a new transmission.
Smart people fix what they already have instead of purchasing something different.
They put money into the car as opposed to financing a new one.
Married couples should try and stay together no matter how many trials comes on their way.
Marriage is not a bed of roses and both partners need to sacrifice themselves to make sure that the marriage institution really works.
When one commits his/her self to getting married, there are many things that one has to get used to which you are not used to doing and this means that you have to adjust so that the marriage can work.
Most marriages today are breaking up due to several reasons but all that is needed is the understanding and commitment from both parties.
Understanding each other makes married couple to be able to stay together as well as enjoy their marriage.
Love is the most important thing when it comes to marriage.
Without love a marriage cannot work as the partners will not value each other.
As the saying goes, love conquers all and when a marriage is built on love, it is bound to overcome all the obstacles that come on the way and enable you to stay together for long.
There are many challenges that married couples have to come across but without endurance, they can never make it.
After you get married, there are many shortcomings you will notice about your spouse that you had not noticed when you were in courtship.
If you are not going to endure, there is no way that you are going to stay together as a married couple.
There is no person that is perfect and all that is needed and especially if you want your marriage to work is to understand your partner.
It is a good thing for married couples to stand by one another in good and bad times.
Most married couples are there for one another in good times but when a misfortune befalls one, the other abandons him/her.
If your partner for example looses a job, you are supposed to stand by him/her and encourage him/her all the time by helping him/her to look for a job instead of criticizing him/her.
On your wedding day, you vow before God and man to stand by each other during good and bad times even in sickness and in health.
If you are able to stand by each other during good and bad times, your marriage is bound to last and you will end up staying together.
Being faithful to one another is important if married couples want to stay together.
Faithfulness to your married partner enables a marriage to last as you gain trust from your partner.
If one partner is not faithful and the other one gets to know about it, it can break your marriage.
Trust is another thing that all married couple should have.
Without trust in a marriage, the marriage foundation will become shaky and it can even lead to separation or divorce.
So if you want to stay together as married couple, trust each other.