You Know You Have A Good Marriage If...
#15 You can't wait to come home to your spouse
After a stressful day at work, there's nobody's face you'd rather come home to see than that of your spouse. You understand one another's pain, toil, stress, and can relate, comfort, and remedy each others' ailments.
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You can't wait to come home to your spouse
After a stressful day at work, there's nobody's face you'd rather come home to see than that of your spouse. You understand one another's pain, toil, stress, and can relate, comfort, and remedy each others' ailments.
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Birthday, Anniversary and other important dates actually mean something
You don't put effort or schedule your smartphone to remind you of these days, you just know that you should prepare for them when they come up. You share the happiness of remembering these emotional milestones.
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You still buy or receive flowers
Flowers aren't just a thing couples do or are put at tombstones. Give flowers or get flowers to or from your date and that's not a habit to stop receiving or purchasing for your spouse. You show your happiness with love notes or flowers or whatever symbols.
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You still dress up and go on dates
Ever see that old couple that still holds hands? They make younger couples think about their future. You show others your happiness and let others realize that love is deep and lasting. Show your affection to others.
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Remember why you love
Marriages can last but if romance doesn't you just go through the motions. Maybe you fill the gap with kids or pets but marriages are based on romance. Romance justifies marriage in the first place, so don't let it die or fade. Romance must survive.
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Don't compare your marriage with others
Nobody should understand the happiness of being married to your spouse more than you. Do not let bad times make you easily give up. Bad marriages are like balloons, they pop when they go through rough spots. Endure the pain, fix the problem, and repair the emotional damage.
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There is only compromise
Arguments or disagreements are never won. There is only compromise. There is no right or wrong in emotional disputes. Be ready to concede your pride because winning the battle can mean losing the war. Understand points of contention and accept opposing perspective as valid.
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Your happiness comes second to your spouse
Instead of thinking about yourself, think in terms of "us", "we", and consider "our". Love your spouse and in turn, be loved by your spouse. Your happiness comes second. Then your happiness can become first in the eyes of your spouse. Work to please or satisfy each other. Marriage requires wanting to make sacrifices for the happiness of your spouse.
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There is no distance
Your spouse should be the person that understands you best. There is no embarrassment in having your spouse know everything you know. Understand your spouse in every way possible without judging them with a bias
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You accept your new identity
As Mr. and Mrs. you are somebody's husband or wife, father or mother. That means you act it by changing what you value to who you value. You have to understand that your priorities have changed as your roles have.
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You love with commitment
That means loving your spouse like you've never loved anyone else before. You promise to care, nurture, and provide for your spouse. That is not just the speech the priest/father gives at the alter. The alter is a place of sacrifice and in the case of marriage, you've sacrificed your freedoms as a single man or woman for the commitment to your spouse.
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There is room for growth
The next stage of marriage is family. Family starts with marriage and that is total commitment of resources, time and love. Your marriage open to the idea of a family and you will provide all the love and affection for marriage to grow into family.
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You can forgive
Everybody makes mistakes. People can become better by learning from their mistakes. It takes losing the trust of somebody you love to know the value of it. There is no justice, pure love is love that forgives as many times as it needs to. To love and be loved is be to forgiven and forgive the people you love so they may learn to love you more
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Love as equals
In all you do, do it as equals, as husband and wife. Nothing should give you power over your spouse nor should you feel inferior. Decide on important decisions together.
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You have hope for a future
You understand that there is a future with the person you have married. The future is bright and you will do what it takes to protect your future with your spouse. The situation may be difficult and dark now but the power of love is strong. If you truly love, then your love can endure and develop
