2 best friends, married, with kids, coming together to create a blog that will help us track our thoughts, lives, and progress on our journeys to learning how to love...better...
We both have felt like something is "lacking" in our relationships with our husbands, and we think it's because we ourselves as wives, need to learn a different, and possibly, better way to love the most important men in our lives!
I don't know about Andrea (I'll give her a chance to talk about it herself), but for me, I think a lot of my relationship "problems" has to do with my attitude. I've realized that most of the time I expect WAY too much out of my husband when it comes to love and romance. I see all these people around me getting married and how madly and happily in love they are and I think "why can't I have that? We used to be like that once upon a time!" I see friends with their husbands/boyfriends and see how sweet or romantic their guys are to them...I think the worst is Facebook...Girls posting all these beautiful pictures of them with their significant others, or writing posts about how amazing they are...But, I've come to realize that comparing my husband to all these other guys is NOT helping either of us out one little bit! In fact, if anything, it just makes things worse because instead of see all the wonderful things my husband DOES do for me, I see all the things he doesn't, or isn't doing and then feel sorry for myself for not having this fairytale romance.
Reality is, I have a great husband, he does so many things for me and he tries to show his love for me, just maybe not the way I've been expecting!! We do have a great marriage, we ARE in love, and I CAN get that "madly in love" feeling back, I just need to change my attitude and try MY hardest to show my husband my love for him...
Have any of you seen the movie "Fireproof"? If not, you should. I'm not going to sit here and explain the movie...In the movie there is this thing called the "Love Dare" and was a way for a man to create a better relationship with his wife. He did the love dare challenge over 40 days (well, he went on to do more on his own) and it greatly improved his marriage...Well, I found the Love Dare in an app and downloaded it to my iPod and, well, Andrea and I are going to do this for our husbands!!
The main thing about this Love Dare is that it is all based on the scriptures and I am really excited about that. I feel like this is not only going to help me with my relationship with my husband, but, it is going to improve my relationship with my Savior and Heavenly Father and show me the REAL meaning of love!!!
So, pretty much what Andrea and I are going to do, is follow the love dare challenge day by day, complete it, and blog about our experiences with it......ready, set, go!
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