Marriage has its up and downs, that’s for certain. It’s a matter of how we deal with the rollercoaster ride of marital life. This will determine if our marriage will succeed or fail. Of course, this is often easier said than done.
There are a lot of factors at play that can affect any of the applicable situations inside married life.
Spouses encounter problems everyday, some more often than others. It’s a part of life… not just married life, but life in general. But some of these problems are too daunting. Some of them are too painful.
Some of them are perceived as too grave and they make us lose our proper senses of what is right and what is wrong.
This is quite unfortunate. A marriage is a union of two people, a union of two hearts, and a union of
two souls. The truth is, both parties in a marriage are bigger than the problems they encounter, if only they’d open their eyes to see this fact. But the problem is, more often than not, our eyes are blinded by the pains, the frustrations, the disappointments, the depression, and the hatred that the said problems bring about. The result: we fail to realize the beauty of what we have and the reasons – the real reasons – why we are with our partner.
The statistics reflect this at an alarming rate. There have been 957,200 reported cases of finalized divorces in the year 2000 alone, and this does not include the non-reporting states in the United States. That’s almost a million occurrences of divorce, and the number doesn’t show the pending petitions filed in court.
