I read an article today that has resonated with me. The point of the post was about why marriages are falling apart today with our constant attention to technology. Instead of calling our spouse, we text them. Instead of having sex, we're scrolling through Facebook to see what every one else is up to. At the beginning of the post it discussed how our great grandparents and grandparents stayed married for life. You didn't hear much about divorce. They worked their problems out by speaking to each other and WORKING together to get through it. You didn't hear much about divorce in those days. As I get older, hearing about divorce doesn't even phase me. It's everywhere!
In this house, we TALK a lot. Sure, we communicate by text when it's necessary and I realize having a husband who works from home makes it very convenient for us to communicate but even when he worked out of the house and drove to the office every day, we communicated. It's always been a priority, an importance in our relationship. It's part of what makes our marriage work. My hope is that our kids see us communicating and working on problems together and take that with them when they leave home one day and decide to marry because believe it or not, marriage is still meant to be "till death do us part" but sadly, there are so many out there who don't want to put the work in to it. Don't get me wrong, there are situations in which I can see that divorce was necessary but in so many other situations, the marriage could have been saved.
In this house, we have sex. Yes, we are two married people and we have sex! We flirt, we joke and we laugh, EVERY DAY. When we disagree, we talk and move on. If one of us messes up, we apologize. We swallow pride, get over it and get on with it! Life is too short to hold a grudge against the one you love and have agreed to be with for the rest of your life.
I believe technology has many good things about it but I think it works like anything else, all in moderation!
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