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By David & Maureen Brown

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Each and every one of us has a need to feel appreciated. Every one of us needs to feel we have a value.

Appreciation and encouragement are very important in any relationship.

It is good to know we are loved for who we are.

Did you know that most marriages could be saved if ‘appreciation’ was expressed?

Little things mean a lot.

Divorce is a concession to your hardheartedness, but is not part of the original plan.

Not everyone is mature enough to live a married life. It requires a certain aptitude and grace.

Marriage does have a ‘largeness’ about it that requires every couple ‘to grow into.’

Be intimately familiar with each other’s word – ‘know’ one another.

Nurture fondness and admiration.

Turn towards each other rather than away.

Let your partner influence you – create a shared meaning.

Overcome gridlock.

Accept one another’s dreams/hopes/desires.

A sexual union does not make a partner for life. However, a life partner will produce a good sexual union.

Co-operation, friendship and companionship is the type of love that builds and strengthens a relationship towards the future.

A self-giving love is not something that happens to you but is more of something you make happen.

‘To know’ has a deeper and wider meaning that just a sexual union, it is more a deep intimacy and awareness of the whole person.

We have to apply love in five ways, in our words, actions, time, giving and touch.

Marriage is a love affair of the heart.

Acceptance in marriage is the power to love someone and receive him or her at the very moment we realise how far he/she falls short of our hopes. It is love between two people who see clearly that they do not measure up to one another’s dreams.

Love is based on a much deeper and powerful ingredient than a whimsical notion.

Love involves and requires something much more needed than purely an emotion; it needs a setting to grow in.

In our society today the word ‘love’ has been spelt SEX.

Sex is really the mortar between the bricks of our marriage building. It is to hold the building of marriage together.

Mortar cannot stand on its own, as it is the cement that holds the whole structure together.

Talk openly about things and have no barriers.

Try and do what is acceptable for and to each other.

Don’t take each other for granted.

If there are problems seek ways to resolve them.

Be clear about what you both want in your marriage now and in the future.

Make sure that your goals are still the same and take time to talk about issues that have arisen.

We learn every day therefore things will change.

Keep your relationship fresh and creative and never allow it to grow stale.

Take time to set out the dinner table nicely, occasionally with candles and flowers. It needn’t be expensive food or wine but the effect can be very worthwhile.

Leave each other love notes, it can mean a lot.

Do something together just for yourselves. Take turns to choose what you want to do. A weekend away or a special evening for you two.

Make the effort to go that extra mile and take time out to be together.

Surprise each other occasionally. A bunch of flowers or preparing a meal for her and then doing the dishes.

Don’t let romance die, keep it alive. Don’t leave it until St. Valentine’s Day!

Trust and believe in each other.

Love always hopes and looks forward to a better future.

Marriage does not just ‘happen’ it has to be built and continue to be built over the years if we are go enjoy the benefits to the full.

K Chesterton has said that, “The whole aim of marriage is to fight through and survive the instant when incompatibility becomes unquestionable. For a man and a woman, as such, are incompatible.”

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