Love Is Teamwork
Always give your spouse the best of you. Don’t give them what’s left over from everyone else.
I get it. You have responsibilities in your life.
One of these responsibilities is to the person you love. Make time every day for your significant other.
Remember, you love this person. Nurture that love daily and you will both be happier.
To have a strong relationship, you have to believe in them even when they’re struggling to believe in themselves.
Relationships grow stronger when you believe in each other.
When your significant other is struggling to believe in themselves, you are the one person they should be able to count on to help them through and believe in them.
Make sure they know they can count on you even when times are tough.
A good marriage isn’t something you find. A good marriage is something you make and you have to keep working on it.
So many people look at couples who have been married a long time and think, “That’s what I’ve always wanted.” They think it should be easy because these people make it look easy.
The difference between relationships that last and relationships that don’t last is the amount of work you are willing to put in. Every relationship goes through hard times. True happiness comes after all the hard work is done and then you work even more!
Marriage is a mosaic made up of tiny moments that create your love story.
Every relationship has cracks. Every relationship has a few tiny moments of happiness (some more than others.)
It’s when you put together all the memories and combine them with all the work you put into the relationship, that your love story starts to unfold.
Never talk badly about your spouse. It minimizes their integrity and weakens your character.
Saying good things about the people you love sends a message to the world that this person holds a special place in your heart.
Saying bad things about them shows that you are not supporting them; you are not a team. It makes both of you look bad (in the eyes of others AND in each other’s eyes) and puts doubts in your relationship.
Choose to lift them up in the eyes of others and it will lift them up in your eyes, too.
Happy marriages focus on the future not the past.
Focus on where you’re going, not where you’ve been.
Bringing up the past hurts is never a good idea. Find a way to let go of those hurts and move past them.
You can’t change what has happened, but you can make a fresh start, look to the future, and move forward together.
A great marriage is made when both partners make choices that say “I love you,” not “I love me”.
When you make decisions to work as a team instead of as an individual, your relationship will grow stronger.
While it is good to put yourself first, it is equally as important to make your relationship a priority.
What looks like a perfect marriage is actually two imperfect people who don’t give up on each other.
No relationship is perfect. I cannot stress that enough! Every relationship has problems.
A good partnership is two imperfect human beings working through their imperfections…together.
The goal in marriage is not to think alike. The goal is to think together.
Think of your marriage as a business. Two people enter into an agreement to share their life. That’s ONE life; ONE partnership.
Businesses have months where they are in the black, but they also have the months where they’re in the red. To make the business work, the partners need to work together to get their profits back up so they can make money.
Marriage is like this. You need to work together to get through the bad times so that you can spend as much time as possible living on the profits!
True love is when you stand by each other’s side on good days and even closer on bad days.
When I hold your hand, you know that I love you. When I celebrate with you, you know that I am there.
However, when I hold you close as you cry, pick you up when you fall, and listen without interruption when you need to talk – that is true love.
Be that person for your partner.
