Tips For A Successful Marriage
You may ask what credentials I have to be sharing tips to having a successful marriage.
The fact that I've been married to the same man for 37 years is probably a very good start! We're still madly in love after so many years together and we can't bear to be apart from each other for too long a time.
We have also worked together for the past 8 years, so if anything was going to pull us apart it would be the amount of time we spend with each other! We also have an expanding family.
We have 4 adult children, each married to a great partner, and 6 beautiful grandchildren.
We all live close to each other so there's quite a lot of family inter-action as well.
I believe that an essential element of creating an outstanding family is to set the right example to your children, especially while they are very young.
It has always amazed me how observant children can be.
They take in everything they see and hear, and they can even feel the atmosphere in the home, whether it's full of love and joyfulness, or anger, tension and hostility.
It's easy to understand how this can affect their own behaviour, their attitudes and even their personalities.
They really do become a product of their environment.
It makes you stop and think back about the kind of example you have been setting in the past.
Intimacy to me means a close loving relationship you have with another person while still retaining your own identity.
Sharing your life with people who know that what they see is what they get, is very satisfying.
Even though I'm "someone's wife and someone's mother", I've never felt that I've lost my identity.
My husband is of the same opinion and we have been on an equal footing since the day we met.
When my husband introduces me as his "wife", I feel proud of the fact that I'm married to this wonderful man.
I personally hate the term "partner" that's used a lot today.
To me it sounds like a business arrangement.
I've never felt that my husband "owns" me.
If you truly love someone then titles are trivial and don't have any real meaning.
The fact that I've been married to the same man for 37 years is probably a very good start! We're still madly in love after so many years together and we can't bear to be apart from each other for too long a time.
We have also worked together for the past 8 years, so if anything was going to pull us apart it would be the amount of time we spend with each other! We also have an expanding family.
We have 4 adult children, each married to a great partner, and 6 beautiful grandchildren.
We all live close to each other so there's quite a lot of family inter-action as well.
I believe that an essential element of creating an outstanding family is to set the right example to your children, especially while they are very young.
It has always amazed me how observant children can be.
They take in everything they see and hear, and they can even feel the atmosphere in the home, whether it's full of love and joyfulness, or anger, tension and hostility.
It's easy to understand how this can affect their own behaviour, their attitudes and even their personalities.
They really do become a product of their environment.
It makes you stop and think back about the kind of example you have been setting in the past.
Intimacy to me means a close loving relationship you have with another person while still retaining your own identity.
Sharing your life with people who know that what they see is what they get, is very satisfying.
Even though I'm "someone's wife and someone's mother", I've never felt that I've lost my identity.
My husband is of the same opinion and we have been on an equal footing since the day we met.
When my husband introduces me as his "wife", I feel proud of the fact that I'm married to this wonderful man.
I personally hate the term "partner" that's used a lot today.
To me it sounds like a business arrangement.
I've never felt that my husband "owns" me.
If you truly love someone then titles are trivial and don't have any real meaning.
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