Real-Life Marriage by Traci Morrow

Author:Traci Morrow
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Brown Books Publishing Group
Published: 2022-05-24T09:54:49+00:00

Nonnegotiables

Every couple is different from the next. We come from different backgrounds, have different experiences, and are a unique combination of personality, giftings, interests, and observations from those experiences. This next part will look different for each couple, which is really the fun of this next exercise: determining through collaboration what priorities are “nonnegotiables” for your relationship. I made a list to help get you thinking of what you really want your marriage and family to look like. You will notice that the things we chose focused around not only being a couple but raising a family. We had our first baby two and a half years after we got married, so the priorities we chose for our relationship translated pretty quickly into how they would work and assimilate in a family setting. Maybe you’ve never thought out exactly what you want; perhaps up till now you have had a sort of ambiguous ideal marriage in your mind that wasn’t ever detailed out. And maybe you even held your real-life marriage up to that undefined illusion of a perfectly satisfying marriage and found it lacking. That’s not abnormal, but it’s not helpful either. I want to help you define your ideal marriage—together—so you have an actual measurable goal to work toward. And whether that includes children or not can all be a part of this step of collaborating.

To get you started, here are some of the ways we put into place our top priorities that supported our overall goals for our marriage. While these are some of the things we considered nonnegotiables, yours might be different and that’s okay. The goal is to define and then create the marriage and family that fits you and your person. Remember to read these for the purpose of viewing a snapshot of one couple’s story, and to get a picture of what you may (or may not) want for your own marriage. I’m not sharing it because we did everything perfectly; God knows we didn’t. I’m sharing so you can get an idea of one way to do things, and for it to hopefully instigate some great collaboration for you and your person.

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