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6 Life Lessons We’ve Learned After 6 Years of Marriage
Emily is the best thing that ever happened to me. She is so much more than I ever thought I would ever have in a wife.
And far more than I’ll ever deserve.
It’s hard to believe that today marks six years of marriage for us. I feel like it was just yesterday that we were meeting and falling in love.
Here are a few of the many life lessons we’ve learned in our six years of marriage.
1. Go to bed angry
I don’t know who started the idea of “never go to bed angry,” but they were dead wrong.
When you’re mad, you are not in a good place mentally. You say and do things you don’t mean. It’s challenging to resolve anything when neither of you is thinking straight.
I’ve also learned that willpower decreases throughout the day. This can have an especially detrimental effect on marriage because most of the time we have with our spouses is at the very end of the day when our willpower is the smallest.
Makes you think twice about why your marriage may feel strained at times. You may need that quality time together at a time of day that isn’t the evening.
