Recovering from Valentine’s Day and Preparing for the Future
Have you recovered from the high of this weekend? Or was it a disappointment? Or simply another weekend of sharing your love with each other the same as any other? As we go back to real life this week, I encourage you to keep the specialness (is that even a word?) alive.
Friend, I have to tell you, I was determined to not fight with My Forever the week of Valentine’s. It was going to be my gift to him – to let go of the things that I would normally fight with him about. I didn’t last 2 hours into Monday morning. Seriously. That’s how long I can last without fighting with him about something.
This life we lead is hard. Like freaking hard. Like really freaking hard. Yours is too, I’m sure. Marriage isn’t an easy thing. Marriage is full of really, really crappy days and then some really, really amazing ones.
Marriage is all about remembering the good days to get through the bad ones. It’s about doing the things that people in love do, even if you don’t feel like doing them. It’s about showing up every single hard and exhausting day. It’s picking up socks and dishes that don’t belong to you. It’s going to events you don’t want to go to. It’s figuring out taxes together. It’s all the hard things.
Marriage is hard. I hope marriage is in a good place after this past weekend. I hope you snapshot those memories into your brain. I hope you have this weekend’s memories to pull out when the hard days strike. I hope you remember that it’s not going to be chocolate and flowers very often. I hope you remember the feelings you felt when you walked down the aisle or hayfield or Vegas wedding chapel, wherever you got married, when the bad days strike. Because it’s not if, but when.
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~Matt & Kelsey