1. It’s more rewarding to run a marathon than it is to walk to your mailbox. That’s because nearly anyone
can walk to a mailbox. Only a few people have what it takes to run a marathon. Relationships are similar.
It’s easy to love someone during easy times. It’s a lot more rewarding to love someone through hard times. Few couples without a legally binding marriage certificate find the perseverance to stay together during
hard times.
2. Marriage allows you to take greater risks. helping each other financially
3. It often takes many years of marriage before two people can become honest enough to tell one another what they really need to hear. Marriage provides the painful feedback that is necessary for personal growth.
4. The Planning the Funeral Phase of Marriage does not last the entire marriage.
5. Few couples who have been married for 30, 40, 50 or more years tell me that they regret sticking it out.
6. Your spouse might be capable of hating you more than anyone. But your spouse is also capable of loving you more than anyone.
7. Marriage provides you with continual opportunities to grow. The harder it is for you to make things work,
the better of a person you will become.
8. When you are old and you can no longer remember things, your spouse just might be able to remember them for you.
9. Two people can more easily amass a nest egg together than either could ever do separately.
10. Your spouse can make you strong where you are weak.
11. Your spouse might not know how to love you, but you can teach him or her how.
12. Most of what you fight about now will eventually become something you laugh about later.
Why do you think it’s important to fight
for your marriage? Or why do you think
it’s not?
