Reply to If you’re happily married 16 plus years what do you attribute it to? What factors?

Forum Index » Relationship Discussion (non-explicit)

Reply to "If you’re happily married 16 plus years what do you attribute it to? What factors? "

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous]1.  You just take the commitment part of marriage seriously even with all the bad parts (and there can be literal years of bad).

2.  The most blissfully married people I know are not married to the most attractive, intelligent, least annoying spouse.  But they really seem to act like they’ve hit the jackpot.  If you really treasure the other person I don’t think it’s possible to fail.

3.  An understanding that you know pretty much nothing about the people around you and the marriages around you, especially when things seem so bad and everybody else seems happy or fine.

4.  Lots of grace towards the other person and their mistakes.

5.  Laughter, like the other person said.

Re- the person whose marriage fell apart at year 18- I think things can fall apart very quickly no matter how strong the union seems.  When my marriage was rocky it was like our bond was very broken.  And we are close!  I don’t think less of people who end a marriage.

I am somewhat on the other side of a rough patch with DH.  Honestly, I think both of us would have been fine in the end if we ended it.  But this is better for our kids and I honestly feel really content for now.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics