Instead of letting the world control how you react in your marriage, it’s vital to look at what you can do to grow in your marriage and to grow your marriage.

You want to make sure that you are actively participating in your relationship. If you expect that everything in your marriage will magically happen, you have another thing coming.

You have to be willing to make deposits in your relationship that lifts up your spouse.

A relationship is defined as the way in which two or more concepts, objects, or people are connected, or the state of being connected.

If you’re in a relationship, you are saying that you are “connected”.

So how are you connected?

• similar interests
• offspring
• share the same dreams

But then some would say, “Well, we are connected. But how?”. You’re stumped. None of the obvious choices are chosen.

I say all this, because we become disconnected when we get comfortable. No more deposits are being made in the marriage. One partner or both are living solely for themselves. There is no “dreaming” as a couple. There is a disconnect in the connection.

So forget me not!

The K.I.S.S. ~ Forget me not!

1. APPRECIATE who you have in your midst. Show them with words of affirmation. Tell them “thank you”.
2. SERVE because you can. Don’t wait until you feel like it. When you’re crabby, you won’t feel like it. One thing I say almost every day is “How can I serve you?” or “What can I do for you today?”. This elevates your spouse while humbling you.
3. LOVE unconditionally. Be careful not to confine yourself to your definition of “love”. Because what’s going to happen is that your definition of love will fall flat for your spouse. Focus on your spouse and loving him with all that you have in the good, the bad, and the ugly.

“How easy it is to forget. How powerful it is to remember. Forget me not!”