"Mawage is wot bwings us togeder tooday..."Is a quote from the classic movie, "The Princess Bride." Much research has been done to figure out why some marriages stay together and why others fail. John M. Gottman is the author of a book called, "The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work." He introduces the idea that the most important aspect of marriage is actually, friendship. This is an incredibly simple but profound principle. It just makes sense. When we are friends with someone, we care about their interests, we enjoy being together, we share secrets, we laugh, we cry, we eat, and we make memories. Friendships are a vital part of life. When our spouse is our best friend, this can truly be "the best of the best."
As we are all well aware, no marriage is perfect. Men and women are different. We each have unique strengths, weaknesses, and abilities. When we commit to marriage, we live and learn together and experience successes and failures. One way we can enjoy greater happiness in marriage is to put our spouses' interests before our own. When we do this, we are putting off the natural man. In the Book of Mormon, specifically Mosiah 3:19, says, "For the natural man is an enemy to God, and has been from the fall of Adam, and will be, forever and ever, unless he yields to the Holy Spirit, and putteth off the natural man and becometh a saint through the atonement of Christ the Lord, and becometh as a child, submissive, meek, humble, patient, full of love..."
This will take lots of practice but as we follow these steps, to be submissive, meek, humble, patient, and full of love, we will enjoy more unity in marriage, happiness in our families and love in our lives.
To finish the quote from the movie,
"Mawage, that bwessed awangment, that dweam wifin a dweam...And wuv, tru wuv, will fowow you foweva... So tweasure your wuv."
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