Marriage is a life long journey of discovering yourself and your ability to become part of an us. Being a part of an us isn’t always easy.
There are going to be times when you feel like you can’t take another second of being with your partner.
And, there are going to be times when you feel like you couldn’t imagine being a single second apart. Hopefully, with the following rules for marriage you’ll find yourself loving every minute!
The longer you let a rift occur in your marriage the more each partner will begin to separate and disassociate with the other. This is even, and sometimes especially, true for unspoken problems as well.
Do not let a problem go unspoken. If you’re the type of person that holds things in, don’t. How can you and your partner handle the problem if they don’t even know about it?
If you’re the type of person that needs to feel right about every argument, don’t. How can it be more important for only one person to be right than the couple as a whole?
By handling a problem and coming up with a solution together you gain as a couple, and individually.
When you first met you probably thought your partner was capable of doing anything, including roping the moon. As time goes on you realize that they are fallible, just like the rest of us.
Realizing that your partner is human shouldn’t be a cause to nag, change or treat your partner differently. They are still the same person, just as you are.
The next time you’re thinking of what you don’t like, think about how you might have changed in your partner’s eyes and work on that instead.