Marriage: The Joining of Two Lives

     Growing up, I knew I always wanted to be married. However I did not see the hardships and the teamwork of both my mom and my dad. In my eyes, they were just my parents who I knew loved me. I was too focuses on just the being their child. I do not remember conversations they had about how their marriage was going or how they felt they were leading the family because like I said, I was too busy playing on old Ronald Mcdonald's Childrens Play Place.
     Now having been married, even though not for too long at all I have those conversations with my wife all the time. We will just be sitting at dinner together or we will go out for our date nights and we will have conversations on how we want to raise our family or things we would like to work on to make our marriage stronger. Marriage isn't just you get married, join two lives and there are no issues what so ever. It takes work. It take communication, love, compromise, understanding, compassion, empathy etc. Everyone word you can use to describe teamwork is how marriage is. Joining two lives and making one new life is a glorious thing! Its a hard thing, but a beautiful thing that you cant just say you did it and wont work on it.
      I have thought recently that marriage is like planting a beautiful flower. Yes, this will get a little sappy. However the principle I think is very much applicable. Planting a flower takes a lot of work if you want to to thrive and be beautiful. You have to prep the soil, providing a good environment as well as conditions for planting it. You have to plant the seed in the soil and then after you do that you cannot just leave it to do its thing. Marriage takes careful nourishment and attention. You have to continue to water the flower and provide proper sunlight for growth. You have to pull weeds around the flower so that it will remain healthy, allowing it to thrive more beautifully. There is a lot of work if you plan to be serious in planting and maintaining a beautiful flower. Same goes for a marriage. There are lots of challenges and lots of wonderful memories that contribute to making the flower bloom. I love being married to my wife. It teaches me everyday ways in which I can become a better person. I would not trade it for anything because nothing even comes close to comparing.