Marriage is a life time partnership and we should cherish it for its beautiful moments. When your boss is demanding, your customers behave like kings, and friends have no time for you, a loving partner is a source of comfort and support.
What Makes a Marriage Last
Love
It is a choice that one makes to continue to give, to express and to exercise the will to love in-spite of the differences and the pain. It is a decision.- Support Marriage - A legal agreement between two individuals, but it requires the support, encouragement of the family and friends to make it work. Social support is always welcomed in times of celebration, in times of suffering, in times of birth, illness and death. Social support in tough times helps to keep a couple geared up towards their goals.
Values
A strong reliable set of values help to keep couples focused on a standard higher than they can individually and personally uphold. These values may bind a couple together, but it also reinforces the idealism of maintaining healthy and respectful relationships in the home.Commitment
Saying "I DO" is an expression of commitment to each other in marriage. Commitment to each other is not only to stay together for better or for worse times. Commitment is also about being willing to work things out when things out when things are not going right.
Cherish The Bond
In the time of stress, whether arising from the family or work, it helps to think of some wonderful things your partner has done for you. Learn to be appreciative and give compliments. Adopt a give-and-take attitude. Spend time together. Show affection.Basically, we have to work hard for marriage to work. After all it's a life time commitment.
Marriage is a life long process of living with your partner and enriching your relationship with each other. It is expected to have its ups and downs. To strengthen the marriage and to learn how to cope with conflicts which may develop, couples should attend marriage enrichment programs.
After all some one has very rightly said "It is the things in common that makes relationships enjoyable, but it is the little differences that make them interesting."
