Enduring marriages Equal partnership between men and women (chapters 3,4)

You've done it! you got married you have made it past all of the awkward first dates, being single and living with roommates, and any holiday with family as a single person. If you ask me that is quite the accomplishment! Think back to your single life it wasn't as fulfilling at least mine wasn't I was always looking never really focusing on anything, and yet after marriage your not sure where to go or what to do? That is something that you decide with your spouse. Also have you felt like life just begins to drag on and that you as a couple need to get out and do something, i felt that at the beginning as well. This the part of marriage that we should be embracing, we get to know each other with no one else around. We get to see the different reactions of our spouse without anyone else in the way, its a wonderful time! It is my personal opinion that now is the time for us to prepare for the endurance, life is going to get in the way, but if we are consistently striving to be better individually and as a couple then when the time comes we will be able to persist and make it through on top, being even closer then before. Before I got married my father told me that "there really isn't a problem in marriage that cannot be worked out if both parties are willing and wanting to work it out." I think that is very true. Even through the storms of life we can pull through together if both are equally willing to share. This leads me to my next point. Being held equal in marriage. Men and women were created after imagine of God and Jesus Christ, male and female we both have significant parts to play in the role of the world. I think that even though we are different it has been proven that we have differences physically, mentally and emotionally, those differences are what make a marriage strong. We have our different strengths and weakness's so that we can lift each other in times of trouble! I am grateful for the example of love, hard work and dedication to each other that my parents have shown me and I hope that my husband and I can create a love and marriage that will be an example to our future children.