A cynic once observed: \u201cAll marriages are happy. It\u2019s the living together afterward that causes all the trouble.\u201d836<\/p>\n
Marriage has been described as the relationship of \u201ctwo reasonable human beings who have agreed to abide by each other\u2019s intolerabilities.\u201d837<\/p>\n
Marriage is like taking an airplane to Florida for a relaxing vacation in January, and when you get off the plane you find you\u2019re in the Swiss Alps. There\u2019s cold and snow instead of swimming and sunshine.<\/p>\n
Well, after you buy winter clothes and learn how to ski, and learn how to talk in a new foreign language, I guess you can have just as good a vacation in the Swiss Alps as you can in Florida. But it is a surprise when you get off that honeymoon airplane and find that everything is far different from what you expected.838<\/p>\n
Unhappy spouse to marriage counselor:<\/p>\n
When I got married<\/p>\n
I was looking for an ideal.<\/p>\n
Then it became an ordeal.<\/p>\n
Now I want a new deal.839<\/p>\n
Someone has likened adjustment to marriage to two porcupines who lived in Alaska. When the deep and heavy snows came, they felt the cold and began to draw close together. However, when they drew close they began to stick one another with their quills. But when they drew apart they felt the cold once again. To keep warm they had to learn how to adjust to one another\u2014very carefully.840<\/p>\n
\u201cFor best results, follow instructions of maker.\u201d So advised a brochure accompanying a bottle of a common cold remedy. If such advice is good for the relief of a simple physical ailment, how much more it is needed for the relief of sick marriage relationships! God, the Author of marriage, has given us clear instructions in the Bible.841<\/p>\n
All of us have seen two rivers flowing smoothly and quietly along until they meet and join to form one new river. When this happens they clash and hurl themselves at one another. However, as the newly formed river flows downstream, it gradually quiets down and flows smoothly again. And now it is broader and more majestic and has more power. So it is in a marriage: the forming of a new union may be tumultuous\u2014but, when achieved, the result is far greater than either alone.842<\/p>\n
Some time ago, the Saturday Evening Post<\/i> ran a humorous article that traced the tendency for marriage partners to drift from a height of bliss into the humdrum of routine attitudes. Called \u201cThe Seven Ages of the Married Cold,\u201d the article likens the state of the marriage to the reaction of a husband to his wife\u2019s colds during seven years of marriage.<\/p>\n
The first year: \u201cSugar dumpling, I\u2019m worried about my baby girl. You\u2019ve got a bad sniffle and there\u2019s no telling about these things with all this strep around. I\u2019m putting you in the hospital this afternoon for a general checkup and a good rest. I know the food\u2019s lousy, but I\u2019ll bring your meals in from Rossini\u2019s. I\u2019ve already got it arranged with the floor superintendent.\u201d<\/p>\n
The second year: \u201cListen darling, I don\u2019t like the sound of that cough and I\u2019ve called Doc Miller to rush over here. Now you go to bed like a good girl, please? Just for Papa.\u201d<\/p>\n
The third year: \u201cMaybe you\u2019d better lie down, honey; nothing like a little rest when you feel punk. I\u2019ll bring you something to eat. Have we got any soup?\u201d<\/p>\n
The fourth year: \u201cLook, dear, be sensible. After you feed the kids and get the dishes washed, you\u2019d better hit the sack.\u201d<\/p>\n
The fifth year: \u201cWhy don\u2019t you get yourself a couple of aspirin?\u201d<\/p>\n
The sixth year: \u201cIf you\u2019d just gargle or something, instead of sitting around barking like a seal!\u201d<\/p>\n
The seventh year: \u201cFor Pete\u2019s sake, stop sneezing! Whatcha trying to do, gimme pneumonia?\u201d843<\/p>\n
People in our nation spend more time preparing to get their driver\u2019s license than they do preparing for marriage or parenting.844<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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