One infallible rule for a strong and successful marriage: Each partner strives to give 51% in every situation the marriage encounters.
Or in other words, a good marriage requires each partner to work at making it a good relationship. Without such a commitment from both husband and wife, the marriage will eventually fail.
Oh, yeah ... “failure” doesn’t always mean divorce.
So true. That’s exactly why most marriages fail now days, people are not willing to give, all they want is to take, men and women.
Agreed.
It seems that too many today have incredible expectations of life in general, that just have no basis in reality. Marriage, parenting, work, real life all are hard, and at some point, will involve doing something you do not want to do, lol. Grown ups come to understand this, and do their best to deal with it in such a way, that it does not punish the people in their life that they are supposed to love.
Trouble is, culturally, we are not doing a very good job of growing adults : /
Nice post.
My hubby and I both work long hours.
It is not a shame to go to bed and just sleep. And sleep. That feels good.
Last weekend I realized that it has been some time that we just slept. Didn’t take me long to get his attention.
He was smiling the next morning.