Commit to your Wedding Vows
- Marlene Bierworth
- Feb 23, 2017
- 2 min read
A THOUGHT TO HELP BUILD RELATIONSHIPS
The wedding day is planned.
The guests have arrived.
Everyone is smiling and the sun is shining.
You are finally ready to walk down the aisle.
OR ARE YOU?
New flash... This is not the time to second guess. But, it's sad to say many do. The nagging fear is pushed off as wedding-day-jitters, and the day continues. It is everything that you dreamed it would be. The cinderella syndrome satisfied and laid to rest.
Now you're committed. The vows were spoken in front of all your family, friends and God, best wishes extended by all, and with heads drifting high, somewhere in the clouds, the new couple move forward to embrace the next step in the relationship. That one is of course, the honeymoon, an equally pie-in-the-sky event, and today all is bliss between the newlyweds.
Then you return home, set up housekeeping, return to careers and outsiders are pushing you from all directions. It's suffocating and exhilarating at the same time. Love and life, colliding and paving a new path. When the new path becomes rocky and full of bumps let your mind escape back to day one when you recited your vows, under God, for the world to hear.
Return to commitment every time. It is the only stable force that will see you through the tough days and reward you in the good days. Not an easy road, but no one said 'forever after' would be easy, and if they did, you were misinformed. But, one partner, together forever, is a life worth pursuing.
I would encourage you to stay committed to the love of your youth and avoid the pitfalls of multiple partners. 'Forever seeking and never finding' is my description of this crowd and the longer it continues, the harder it will be to commit to anyone.
So, back to the wedding day and the jitters you passed off as normal: Maybe commitment should have been a priority word in your pre-marital counselling. You can do two things at this point. Throw your hands in the air and say, "I never thought..." or you can say, "Till death do us part."
Your choice and your life. Live it to the fullest and stay committed.
