Enjoy this song, everyone. ❤
Read the articles below. I got the first one from the Facebook Page of my former professor. The second one is an excerpt from the online magazine. I recommend you young couples to follow and read the articles there. Really a big help.
Loving people and using things, and not the other way round
(using people and loving things) could very well be a major key to building a
marriage or any type of relationships for that matter. Couples should bear in
mind that the best things in life are NOT things, but relationships. Things are
meant to be used for our convenience, but people are meant to be loved and
nurtured. Our relationships in life, that we create and allowed to flourish,
would ultimately prove to be the real source of our happiness and fulfillment,
we were designed as social beings, after all. Even if these relationships have
the potential to hurt us and fail us, they cannot be replaced by things and
mere objects which cannot respond and relate to us. The best way to enjoy a
marital relationship is for parties to give and take with balance, to mutually
support each other and to intentionally meet each others needs and make each
other really happy. Indeed, it is terrible to live with an unhappy partner.
With these thoughts in mind, it would be obvious that in the couples hands lie
the key to the quality and outcome of their marriage relationship.
Of course, marriage requires sacrifice. And sometimes it will feel as if it takes and takes. However, when we return marriage to its rightful place in our priorities, it can quickly turn from something we have to maintain and sacrifice for into the greatest asset to every other layer of our lives.
-Relevant Magazine
-Relevant Magazine
I am now 23, and my partner is turning 26. We've been thinking to put our relationship to the next level, seriously thinking and planning for it after being disconnected for three long months. Sometimes, we are thinking that getting there will be easy as long as we have each other. But, I come to think that it should be "it will be difficult but it's going to be okay as long as we're working out the hardships together". You bet it right, relationships will always be oh-so-sweet at the start, quite cocky-rocky in the middle, and when you pass through that... it'll be HEAVEN.
As of now, we enjoy doing things together: working on the things we missed, satisfying each other's needs, continuously discovering little things about each other, honesty, forgiving, working on the middle of our differences and supporting each other. We read and talk how we can do things together and make it all good and better everyday. I am not sure if all couples do this as preparation to getting to the next level of their relationships. We know, there'll be hardships and as long as we put Him in the middle of this relationship... We'll be fine. We'll be okay. :)
