Okay, so this week in all of my family classes we talked alot about marriage and how it really takes hard work to get marriage where it should be and keep it there. I am using a book called "Successful Marriages and Families" I'm taking a bunch of quotes and points from different chapters so this is going to be more of random thoughts all about the same topic.
"While marriage is difficult, and discordant and frustrated marriages are common, yet real, lasting happiness is possible, and marriage can be more an exultant ecstasy than the human mind can conceive. This is within the reach of every couple, every person." - Spencer W. Kimball delivered in a BYU devotional in September 1976.
Happiness is something that we decide to be. If we choose to be happy then we will be. The same is in marriage if we choose to be happily married and each give 100% all the time then we will be.
"You sacrifice for [the relationship], invest in it, link it to personal goals, and seek the partner's welfare not just your own." When in marriage we have to eliminate everything else in our lives to cleave unto our spouses and none else. None else meaning not just no one else or nothing else. Our Heavenly Father wants our hearts to be knit together.
I believe that everyone, with the exception of very rare cases, if they work hard enough, can make their marriage last forever, but it is amazing that the gospel not only gives a purpose in life, but all of the principles make for a mentally, physically, and spiritually healthy life. Marriage is a wonderful thing that can really make one more happy than anything else.
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