Personal Narrative: Improving My Marriage

Reflecting back on everything we have read and learned so far this semester has been a little bitter sweet. I am sure that I am not alone when I say this has been a humbling experience, putting my marriage under a microscope looking for ways to improve it. No one likes to hear that they are doing something wrong much less that their actions could lead to the demise of their marriage and hurt their spouse. In the beginning of this class I felt I had a rock solid marriage, and I do, but I walk away with tools to keep it on a solid foundation. The best thing I can do to improve my marriage is to treat my husband with a Christ-like love. If I could look at him and see him the way our Heavenly Father sees him many of the little irritants would cease all together. Something Goddard talked about that has become my new mantra in life is that when we focus on fixing ourselves and love our spouses they grow. I really like that because it covers so much ground. Instead of focusing on the annoying habits my husband has, I should be focusing on his good …show more content…
This had to be one of my favorite chapters. The foundation of every great marriage is friendship and that is what love mapping focuses on. My husband and I talk a lot but it was still fun to go through the exercises in the book. I didn’t learn anything earth shattering about him, but we were able to talk and focus on each other which is something we don’t have the opportunity to do all the time as anyone with kids can understand. I realized while our normal “How was your day dear” conversations where important we were doing them more out of habit and less out of really wanting to connect. Setting aside time of one another, away from our children is something we have decided we would like to do. The goal is to sit down and share with each other, without folding laundry, or looking over our