In the work of Thornton Wilder, The Skin of Our Teeth ", Maggie confronts her husband Jorge, which is about of leaving for another woman:
"Jorge, I will not marry you because you were perfect ... I married you because you made a commitment to me, because you made me a promise. That promise goes over your mistakes. And I promise that I will pass over my mistakes. Two imperfect people got married and was the promise that made our marriage. And when our children were growing up, it was the house that protected them, it was not our love that protected them was that promise. "
On Thursday, Philip and I completed four years of marriage, and how they should imagine have not been away the problems and difficulties in our relationship. Any person who is married should know that every year, every month, every week and even each new day of marriage is a challenge. But it is a beautiful challenge. It is a challenge that we set ourselves. Nobody beat me. I freely and naturally I decided to love my husband for the rest of my life. Yes, because love is a choice.
The first time I read this sentence, I was surprised. But after reading it several times, I realized it is totally true ... yes love is a choice.
love is a verb, a word that implies action. People who are proactive, make love a verb ... love, serve, sacrifice, listen, search, create empathy with others, appreciate, claim to be loved ... that way, they decide to love and commitment to each other. Love requires that we both increase the value of each and we focus on "What I can do for you?" instead of "What do I get for me in all this?".
When I married, I promised my husband that I love and respected by the rest of my life. I promised. I told him to accompany him into health or disease, for better or for worse, till death do us part. And, at any time during the ceremony, I demanded he do the same. He, like me, freely and spontaneously gave me a promise.
And we will respect that promise together as we did and take love as a value that must grow to keep working and not as a feeling which may disappear over time.
Thus I declare today to actively build my marriage and my husband choose to respond with the love that I promised.
Happy Anniversary, my love ... Today, like yesterday, I keep my commitment to you and the life project plan together.
I look forward to each day you take a chance and see what happens ...
Marriage is an art that must be created every day, with an "I Love You", looking at the faces to face life , relying on each other's feelings and innermost thoughts, with words of appreciation and demonstrating the love attitudes and ingenious ways.
Because, as I understand it, "Love is patient, helpful and without envy. It does not appear nor does the important, or not acting basely seek its own interests. Love does not get carried away by anger but forgets and forgives sins. never happy and always something unjust like the truth. The apology love everything always trusts, always hopes and always perseveres. Love never happen. " (First Letter of Paul to the Corinthians).
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