Month: May 2023

Most people substitute their physical and emotional availability with money and gifts in their marital relationship and expect an outstanding result, forgetting that money, gifts, and time occupy different spaces in their partner’s heart.

Comparison is acting in foolishness; as it has no value to add to your marital fulfillment but to waste your joy. The two of you that make up your marriage is different from the other two people that make up another marriage.

The users of this quote must seek to have knowledge of what commitment is to him or her and what it means to his or her marital partner so as to have an understanding of how well they can both respond to love and find it more convenient to foster love for one another as their marital journey progresses.

Commitment is defined as the ability and the decision to pay the price that is required to stay with a person in a marital relationship for as long as it should take. Commitment is the force that is needed to drive a marital decision to its desired end, and therefore it must not be one-sided but should foster consistency by the two parties involved for a happily ever after relationship.

Most marital relationships start from the point of attraction, and there is nothing wrong with it in as much as the parties involved are able to commit to one another beyond their attraction, for infatuation is a weak force that cannot sustain the weight of marriage.

Though love is consistent and selfless, it is also highly principled, and it should not be taken for granted, dishonored, or abused because of its consistent nature. Hence, parties involved in a marital relationship should have mutual respect for one another so as to enhance consistency in their love for each other.

Love is a constant force; it endures and does not fail because it is a way of life, that is, a lifestyle. A person who does not live to love himself or herself genuinely and who finds day-to-day association with parents, siblings, friends, and neighbors difficult might find it difficult to foster love consistently in a marital relationship.

Based on the outcome of my experiences and exposition at the Sure Hope Counseling Clinic, I hereby define love as a consistent force of attraction that is potent enough to stir commitment in a person towards another in a romantic or an affectionate manner.