Marriage is hard, I don't care who you are. That's why we write this blog, and that's probably why you're reading it. The fail rate on marriages is way too high. How did things get so screwed up? How do we build a better "us", rather than letting our marriage take the slow slide into a hole we can't climb out of? We propose this: we have to put "us" (our marriage relationship) first.

It's become a foreign concept... that we, as a married couple, should come first. But we should. "We" should come before the kids, and their sports, and their music activities, and sleepovers, and.... "We" should come first before guys' and girls' nights out. "We" should come first before finishing the last things on my to-do list.

It was easier said than done. We limited our kids to one sport at a time. They were a little mad at first, but they had the security of knowing their parents loved each other enough to fight against the peer pressure of doing what so many other parents were doing.
Now, when young couples ask us for advice, we say... Slow down. Simplify. Stop running 100 mph trying to please everyone. The two of you come first.
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