Mutual Admiration

One of the most important components of a successful relationship is sharing fondness and admiration.


 

Nobody Has a Perfect Marriage

Your parents didn't have a perfect marriage.
Your best friend doesn't have a perfect marriage.
Your neighbors don't have a perfect marriage.
The popular girl from high school doesn't have a perfect marriage.

The president doesn't have a perfect marriage.
Your friends who are so smug about their marriage don't have a perfect marriage.
Your marriage counselor doesn't have a perfect marriage.
I don't have a perfect marriage.

Valuing Your Marriage

By guest blogger Rick Reynolds

What's the value of your marriage? I have a friend who says you can always determine what's important to people by looking at their check register. How do they spend their money? If you look at your check register what would it say about the importance of your marriage? What percentage of your income is allocated to your relationship?

Just Overlook It

by guest blogger Rev. Rich

If you think about it, there’s something about everyone you know that bugs you. It might be a bad habit they have, it might be the way they do a certain thing, it might even be an attitude that you think they have towards you. Regardless of what it is, you put up with it for that relationship.

Re-read that last sentence. Now, why is it that we are so apt to overlook things that our friends and co-workers do, in order to maintain our relationship with them, but we have trouble doing the same thing with our wife? It would seem to me that love would make it easier to overlook something that doesn’t agree with us; but in most cases, we find more things that bother us in our mates, than we do in our friends. Why is that?