Marriage Minute Monday- Give 100% Of Yourself

Published May 7, 2012 | By Jennifer Sikora

I’ve decided to start a new meme around here. I haven’t done one before but I love them as it is a way to meet like minded people who love to share about the same things you do! I love talking about marriage so the first one of course is gonna be on marriage

So what shall we talk about?

Today I wanted to share with you what it means to love your man — I mean really love him. This December, I will have been married to my husband for 19 years — been together for 22 years. WOW! When I sit and think about how many years we’ve been together I am just blown away.

Our marriage was not always rock solid. In fact, there was a time when we were gonna get divorced, but God had other plans. I’m so glad that He intervened. Because of that time, God has shown me over and over again what it truly means to love my husband. Here are a few of those things

Give 100% of yourself and expect nothing in return

This of course is SO hard, but I have found when I put ME aside and focus on his needs, he will in return put his needs aside and focus on me, so it all works out in the end — most times. And sometimes, that doesn’t happen. However, that doesn’t mean that I stop focusing on him ( I do sometimes and I lose sight of the bigger picture). It means that I should focus all the more on his needs and then GOD will meet mine.

Learn to overlook the petty issues

Every marriage has its ups and downs and we all find little quirks that drive us NUTS! If we focus on those, then we will start to see all of their flaws and before long, we kind of just do nothing but nit pick those petty things to death. Instead of focusing on those, find the traits about your spouse that you love and focus on those things. It will make the petty things seem trivial.

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One Response to Marriage Minute Monday- Give 100% Of Yourself

Joshua Velez says:

May 22, 2012 at 11:51 am

Hello,
You have a wonderful site. My name is Joshua Velez and I represent CoupleWise. To get straight to the point I would love to see Couplewise.com (a web application that helps marriages with their communications and troubles) on your site. Unlike many of these relationship sites we look to help and keep the couples together. If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact me.
Thanks,
Joshua J. Velez

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