What valuable lessons about love and devotion have you learned from the most successful marriages in your family--whether they're your siblings, parents, grandparents or even ancestors?
My parents are the most successful love story in our family. We jokingly say they have been together forever already--and in a way they have been. They've been together since my mom was 14 years old and they have been married since 1964.
From them I have learned that sometimes you may not always LIKE the person, but if there is love at the bottom of it all, everything and anything can be weathered together.
From them I've learned that you love someone fiercely--with no excuses to anyone else.
From them I've learned that you love someone through thick and thin--and everything in between.
From them I've learned that you never give up on someone you love.
I have learned from them that really loving someone means you'll have to forgive them many times and ask for forgiveness a lot too
From them I've learned that event he hardest things are easier together.
From them I have learned that with a good partner at your side you can do just about anything.
From them I've learned that when you love someone you also love their family--good, bad or ugly.
And from them I've learned that when you love someone that love doesn't go away when things get hard, or boring, or tough, or challenges arise, or things are going beautifully. When you love someone, you choose to love them each and every day.
They are not perfect examples, but they are the best thing I have had to look to and see how to do this relationship-thing in my life.
Sunday, February 11, 2018
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