Recently, my husband and I celebrated our Fifth wedding Anniversary. ๐ฐ๐ป๐คต๐ป๐
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I had someone tell me congrats and how proud she was of us. She said, โI donโt hear of many young couples staying married that long these days.โ ๐
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Her words shocked me a little. How sad that we live in a world ๐ that people so easily give up. ๐
๐ปโโ๏ธ We are so quick to just give up when things get hard.
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Iโm not saying marriage is easy. Iโm also not saying our marriage is perfect, but we work hard to keep it strong. ๐ช
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We communicate and tell each other everything so that we donโt have built up anger, resentment and other feelings that can cause problems later on. ๐ซ
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Itโs not always easy to love my husband, some days he really gets on my nerves and I have to choose to love him more that day. ๐๐ปโโ๏ธ I also know he puts up with a lot of my crap and loving me isnโt always easy. ๐ฌ
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Even when things are going great between us we still work hard on our marriage. Currently, we are reading โI said this, you heard thatโ in our small groups at our Church. ๐ It has really helped us with HOW to communicate better with each other based off the color of our personalities.
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Five years later, we now have two kids under the age of two. Itโs hard. ๐ณ It would be so easy to just focus on the kids and not work on our relationship.
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Things are good, so why make time to work on it when Iโve got two kids who need me, dinner to cook, a house to clean and a business to run? ๐คท๐ปโโ๏ธ
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Because our marriage comes first. โ๐ผ
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Show your spouse each day that you love them. โค๏ธEven on the days they annoy you. ๐คฏ
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Donโt stop working on your marriage. ๐
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โ ๏ธ Things that are worth it, donโt come easy. โ ๏ธ
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๐ Books that have really helped us to grow:
โข The Love Dare: https://amzn.to/2IMmeEA
โข The Five Love Languages: https://amzn.to/2PAE9P8
โข I said this, you heard that: https://amzn.to/2VwPpRU
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๐ท: Eternal Bliss Photography.ย She is the absolute best and we have been so blessed to have her capture sweet memories along the way as our family grows. ๐