Married People Know

Married people know that it's just as important to remain separate, individual, amazing people while at the same time being everything to and for someone else.

Married people know that being able to laugh at themselves solves more problems than anything else.

Married people know that there is always someone who they can lean on.

Married people carry each other through the harder times...both take turns carrying and being carried.

Married people know that the path they walk on isn't as straight and narrow as they used to think;

But married people also know that bumps in the road eventually even out.

Married people sometimes find that one another changes in an unexpected way, but they also know that those changes allow them to grow together.

Married people know that living to honor each other is more than a promise;

It is an act that they have to consciously do every day.

Married people look at each other with knowing glances after congratulating newly engaged couples,

Because they know that marriage is the most wonderful, most difficult journey that a couple can begin.

Married people know that as the months blend into years, keeping love fresh and alive is a daily job.

It is a wonderful, rewarding job, but one that must be done every day without fail, and that's hard.

Married people know that loving each other through the years is different than feeling in love when you first meet.

Married people can tell when each other need something and do their best to provide it.

Married people know that marriage is a marathon.  

Married people know that sometimes they have to be the first to say, "I'm sorry".

Married people know that they can trust each other to be forgiving, because there is no room in marriage for grudges.

Married people know that there is no person on earth that knows them better.

Engaged couples think they will always feel as in love as they do the day they get engaged.  Married couples know that it gets so much better.

Married people work hard to make each others' dreams come true.

Married people know that some dreams take longer to come true and do everything in their power to help them happen sooner.

Married people know that there isn't another person on the planet that will go to bat for them like their spouse.

Married people know each other well enough to calm each other down when one wants to take a bat to something else.

Married people know that taking time alone with each other sometimes is more important than any party, get together, or social event.

Married people sometimes have to laugh at how much they didn't know when they got married.

When you're single, married people seem like they know more than you.  That's because they do.

They know that you can't rush things, that finding that person you're meant to be with happens in its own time.

And when it does, it just works.

Married people don't just talk about being there for each other during hard times.

They have lived through those times and can say "Thank God we were there for each other"

Married people aren't on their best behavior like when they were dating.

Married people love each other fully, all the good and the bad and everything in between.  They laugh at it all.

-Anonymous-

My sister sent this to me after the blog post I wrote yesterday.  I liked it so I thought I would share.