Marriage One Year Later. What I've Learned

[Manwë Súlimo]

My wife does love the way I look physically,

Truly love is blind.

[ApologiaPhoenix]

Wrapping it all up.

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Hello everyone and welcome back to Deeper Waters where we are diving into the ocean of truth. Tonight, I'm going to be wrapping up the series I'm on of looking at marriage one year later. I hope that it's been illuminating to all readers despite their marital status. So, what final message will I end with?

Have fun.

Marriage is full of ups and downs. There are no perfect marriages. I do not believe Jesus was married, but if he had been, he would not have had a perfect marriage because he would have been married to an imperfect woman. If he could not have had a perfect one, don't count on your having one either.

You have two people coming together with all their positives, yes, but also all their negatives. When you're close to someone, it's easy to get careless also and let some of those negatives show. In marriage, you get to see the person as they really are entirely. However, in seeing the other person, you can often see yourself as well. Can you control yourself enough to overcome your own faults and can you manage to not make the faults of the spouse everything?

However, you also get the fun and adventure, and that's not just sex my male friends who might be thinking that since we tend to think about that the most. Marriage is an endless adventure as you're connected to a person and every day you are constantly learning new things about that person.

These kinds of things are the things that could easily be taken for granted. That person has chosen to share their life with you and will always be a part of your life. Do not take them for granted. Do not act like their love is commonplace. I am constantly amazed when I hear the devotion that my wife has for me.

Do not lose sight of the simple pleasures. I find it amazing to realize I sleep in the same bed with a woman now and that I am at that phase of my life. It's like being on a whole new plane. You really do change. To my male friends, I can assure you that marriage will change you and you will see the world through new eyes and you will find more and more your thinking changing, particularly with how you view the new woman in your life.

The relationship takes hard work. The more serious a relationship is, the harder it is. The greater also, however, the rewards are.

There was a night we had one time that I have not forgotten the main part of. We were getting set to turn out the lights and I was reaching down from the bed to get something and moving in a way I shouldn't have and started to fall. My wife gets quite concerned since I have a steel rod on my spine. Before anything could happen, she had immediately wrapped her arms around me and said "I won't let you fall."

That's the way it is. You don't let one another fall. You fight alongside each other on all the battles. Through good times and bad, you are a unit together. You are a new family. It is a privilege that is to be enjoyed. Thus, make the most of it and have fun together. You have the rest of your lives.

[ApologiaPhoenix]

Truly love is blind.

I don't know what she sees in me still, but I'm glad she does see it and I'm sure the more she sees it, the more I do.