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DID I MARRY THE RIGHT PERSON?
During one of our seminars, a woman asked a common question. She...
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DID I MARRY THE RIGHT PERSON?
During one of our seminars, a woman asked a common question. She said, ‘How do I know if I married the right person?’ I noticed that there was a large man sitting next to her so I said, ‘It depends. Is that your husband?’ In all seriousness,he answered ‘How do you know?’ Let me answer this question because the chances are good that it’s weighing on your mind.
Here’s the answer.
EVERY relationship has a cycle. In the beginning, you fell in love. With your spouse. You anticipated their call, wanted their touch, and liked their idiosyncrasies. Falling in love with your spouse wasn’t hard. In fact, it was a completely natural and spontaneous experience. You didn’t have to DO anything. That’s why it’s called ‘falling’ in love…Because it’s happening TO YOU. People in love sometimes say, ‘I was swept off my feet.’ Think about the imagery of that expression. It implies that you were just standing there; doing nothing, and then something came along and happened TO YOU. Falling in love is easy. It’s a passive and spontaneous experience.
But after a few years of marriage, the euphoria of love fades.It’s the natural cycle of EVERY relationship. Slowly but surely, phone calls become a bother (if they come at all), touch is not always welcome (when it happens), and your spouse’s idiosyncrasy, instead of being cute, drive you nuts. The symptoms of this stage vary with every relationship, but if you think about your marriage, you will notice a dramatic difference between the initial stage when you were in love and a much duller or even angry subsequent stage.
At this point, you and/or your spouse might start asking, ‘Did I marry the right person?’ And as you and your spouse reflect on the euphoria of the love you once had, you may begin to desire that experience with someone else. This is when marriages breakdown.
People blame their spouse for their unhappiness and look outside their marriage for fulfillment.
Extramarital fulfillment comes in all shapes and sizes. Infidelity is the most obvious. But sometimes people turn to work, a hobby, a friendship, excessive TV, or abusive substances. But the answer to this dilemma does NOT lie outside your marriage. It lies within it.
I’m not saying that you couldn’t fall in love with someone else. You could. And TEMPORARILY you’d feel better. But you’d be in the same situation a few years later.
Because (listen carefully to this):
THE KEY TO SUCCEEDING IN MARRIAGE IS NOT FINDING THE RIGHT PERSON;
IT’S LEARNING TO LOVE THE PERSON YOU FOUND. SUSTAINING love is not a passive or spontaneous experience. It’ll NEVER just happen to you.
You can’t ‘find’ LASTING love. You have to ‘make’ it day in and day out. That’s why we have the expression ‘the labor of love.’Because it takes time, effort, and energy, And most importantly, it takes WISDOM . You have to know WHAT TO DO to make your marriage
work.
Make no mistake about it. Love is NOT a mystery. There are specific things you can do (with or without your spouse) to succeed with your marriage. Just as there are physical laws of the universe (such as gravity), there are also laws for relationships. Just as the right diet and exercise program makes you physically stronger, certain habits in your relationship WILL make your marriage stronger. It’s a direct cause and effect. If you know and apply the laws, the results are predictable…you can ‘make’ love work.
Love in marriage is indeed a ‘decision’… Not just a feeling.
because my heart was breaking. It still is. After 3+ years, staying by him through all his crazy shit…. after questioning myself “should i stay or should i go?” …..after loving no other—not even feeling attracted to anyone else….. after empty promise after empty promise….. after hours of…
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Slice of Life
Good day, my pizza loving friends! I am happy to present you with our short video cleverly titled – Slice of Life. This video was shot in Mall of Asia together with my friends and this short flick simply explains how life is like a box of Pizza Hut Tuscani Pizza. Eight slices, eight people, one movie. Wonderful!
I have done a script for the movie but in the most part – the shots were just made randomly. But hey, spontaneity is fun and what’s more fun is that we got to taste this amazing pizza from Pizza Hut. The Tuscani Pizza has five different flavors and I was able to convince all of them to try the All Meat Tuscani pizza. Why not? I have heard a lot of good things about this flavor and if I were to win something from the Flavor Your Life contest – I have to say I’d love to get my hands on that Iphone 4. This baby will definitely add a LOT of flavor in my life (nothing like shooting a video in HD!).
The All Meat Tuscani pizza definitely delivers the taste I am looking for in an all meat pizza. The meat toppings were perfectly done and the mozzarella cheese compliments its meaty goodness. Some of the meat toppings I noticed were ham, sausage and bacon. Very tasty, indeed! We ordered the family size All Meat Tuscani pizza and when it landed down on our table, man, it was so hard to fight the urge to grab a slice! See, I need to shoot the whole pizza first – with its complete eight slices. That being said, I could have sworn I was hearing angry tummy growls around me the whole time I was shooting the pizza. Yep, one of those tummies was from yours truly.
After the gruesome waiting, finally, we have devoured the 14-inch All Meat Tuscani pizza. Talk about tummy satisfaction! I can definitely say that this pizza is my top one when it comes to meaty goodness. And by the way my friends’ faces looked after dining, they surely second the motion. So we thank you Pizza Hut for coming up with this Tuscani pizza!
Another reason to thank Pizza Hut is for giving me (and the other bloggers) the opportunity to win fabulous prizes by just enjoying their product and doing what we love most – blogging. In my case, making videos. My video entry Slice of Life was shot using my friend’s DSLR. Sadly, I don’t have an HD capable gadget to shoot with. It’s either I borrow a friend’s camera or just settle with a non-HD shoot. Quite pathetic if you ask me. So that’s when the Iphone 4 gets in the picture. Like DSLR, the Iphone 4 is also HD capable PLUS of course it’s a phone and internet capable at the same time. This phone will definitely add more flavor with the thing I love doing the most - movie making.
I hope you guys enjoyed my video blog entry and I hope this is enough for me to take home the super “meaty” prize under the yummy All Meat Tuscani pizza. For all the other hopefuls, cheers to all of you and may the Tuscani pizza force be with us all.
And as for you All Meat Tuscani pizza, I’ll see you in my dreams tonight (more like eat you in my dreams tonight, ha ha!).
Eeeeeeaaaat Bulaga!
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