Help Make Your Marriage Great By Being Grateful For Your Spouse

Happy Couples Think The Best Of Each Other

After all, with such an amazing person, does it really matter if he isn’t that neat? Does it really matter that much if she always runs late? Or “Yes, this was a bad year financially, but she is amazing the way she has stood beside me.” Or “He has been so sweet the way he has reassured me we would get through this.”

And in being so aware of their partners’ “amazingness” (I love that word!), these folks certainly did not take each other for granted, nor did they overlook the great things that were right before their eyes. In the end, they expected fewer problems—and found fewer! Putting it another way, their perception became reality. What each saw in the other became what each experienced.

We don’t have to wait until we lose what we love to realize its value. We can start today to change the weather in our marriages by intentionally minding our “gratitudes”—and letting our spouses know how blessed we feel because of them.

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