We are inundated daily with magazine articles, reality television, and social media news feed that show an endless barrage of negative images, stories, and statistics about marriage. All of these images seem to report that every marriage is doomed for one reason or another.
One could easily begin to believe that their marriage will be plagued with money problems, unruly children, constant discontent, or a “grass is greener” mindset by one or both partners. I have to admit in my work as a Relationship Life Coach, I do work with couples that have faced some of these marital woes.
However, these are not issues that every couple I work with has faced. In fact, I have to admit and am happy to report, that I work with a lot of couples that have happy healthy marriages that are merely seeking ways to continue to strengthen their union.
I am writing this article because I don’t want you to fall victim to all of the negative hype that we constantly see and hear about marriage. There are so many couples that LOVE being married and genuinely LOVE the person they are married to. Happy marriages are not a fairytale. They are real and they do exist. Since bad news always seems to travel faster and is reported more often than good news, allow me to take a moment to share some good news today.
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What the non-believers, haters, dream killers, undercover jealous, and chronically negative, lonely, and miserable people don’t want you to know is that Marriage ROCKS!!! It’s fun and exciting, deeply spiritual, and intensely intimate and romantic. Marriage is sexy. Simply put, Marriage IS the New Black.
Married Couples Do Reconnect, Recharge, and Restore
There are so many things that I have encountered in my professional life that confirm for me that there is a huge segment of the population that truly enjoy being married. I have a successful career as a Relationship Life Coach because committed couples proactively search for ways to enhance or save their marriage. Couples in large numbers attend relationship seminars, workshops, retreats, and seek individual relationship coaching.
In all of my years as a Relationship Life Coach, I have never facilitated a workshop or retreat or spoken at a seminar where couples were forced to attend under court order, or as a requirement to keep their jobs, homes, or children. It has been my personal experience that every couple has willfully and willingly, although sometimes nervously, registered to attend.
I have even had the pleasure of working with several couples multiple times because they enjoyed the events so much and they were able to walk away with tools they could implement immediately. My work has further proven that happy married couples exist in unreported hefty numbers; in that I no longer have to advertise or plan workshops and retreats for couples to sign up for. My client base has grown immensely from word of mouth and repeat business.
It’s a frequent occurrence for me to have a group to contact me with an engagement, venue, or cabin ready to go in hopes that my calendar can accommodate their request. Moreover, I’ve never been invited to an empty room to serve as a keynote speaker for a relationship conference. There is never a shortage of excited committed couples lined up to fill an audience at relationship seminars. Happy marriages do exist. They are not mythical like unicorns, nor are they legendary folklore like the Loch Ness monster or Big Foot. There are many couples in love that take the initiative to learn how to live happily ever after.
LaQuisha Lankford says
This article is wonderfully confirming my thoughts on marriage. As my husband and I draw close to ten years of marriage, we talk about how so many if our friends and some family continually give marriage a bad rap. We simply love being the We, Us and sometimes the Them. Marriage is what you want it to be and if you choose a happy marriage you’ll have a happy marriage.
LaDawn Elliott says
Amen LaQuisha, I commend you and your husband for being the We, Us and Them. Continue to be the Good example of what marriage is and can be. You are correct in that you have to choose daily to be happy in your marriage. Once you resolve that you are going to be fully committed to your relationship and your mate, your thoughts and actions are predicated on making it the best relationship possible. You won’t always land perfectly in the love zone, but you will come pretty darn close more often than not when your plan is to be successfully committed. Thanks for taking the time to read my article. Please feel free to share the article with those that you feel may find it to be beneficial.
LaDawn The Relationship Rescuer