...Saying “I Do” What’s the first thing that pops into your head when you think “marriage”? Do you smell a home cooked meal waiting on the table, after a long-hard day at work? Do you picture a beautiful home with a white picket fence? Maybe you think about a gorgeous white dress, that was altered to fit you just right. Or maybe it’s not white at all because your favorite color is black, and you refuse to be cliché on what’s supposed to be the most important day of your life. Maybe you see half of everything you own being taken out from under you if this whole “marriage thing” goes south, and that’s just not a chance you’re willing to take. Maybe the thought of being committed to one person for the rest of your life frightens you, and all of a sudden that beautiful woman standing next you is looking more like a prison warden, rather than your future wife. Whatever your views or opinions on marriage may be one things for certain; no one ever walked down the aisle, said their vows, and pledged before God and everyone most precious to them expecting to fail. Marriage was not always based on the idea of two people falling in love and wanting to spend the rest of their lives together. In the 1800’s marriage was not just regarded as the joining of two people, but the joining of families, businesses, and wealth. Many women had suitors pre-arranged for them by their fathers. Although most marriages were based on the idea of security and companionship, that doesn’t mean that love did not...
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... I fell in love with my high school sweetheart “A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person” A happy marriage is one where you both work on issues to solve them, you both respect, and love each other, and want to be with your spouse like it was the first day you met, it’s when you know there may be bumps in the road, but together you will ride them out and emerge with them even stronger and have a stronger bond it’s when you know someone and that someone will always have your back and vise versa, it’s when you see each other after being apart even for a couple of hours and smile in a genuine way and having that happiness of being reunited. I would always not expect perfection to me a happy marriage means good communication skills both talking and listening, respect and responsibility for oneself. You should be able to be happy for each other when things are tough. You can be down on your luck, but a happy marriage means that at the end of the day you are happy to be with you your partner no matter what the circumstances may be. When you signed that paper, you made a promise to be with that person till death till you part. Falling in love with your partner many times might mean you should try different things. I fell in love with my boyfriend many times all over again like it was the first time I met him. I met him when I was in high school I was...
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...A Wonderful Life Changing Experience Kimberly Manuel American InterContinental University Life Changing 2 Abstract This essay is a major part of my life, and it means the world to me. So I want to share my experience of me getting married and/or being married. I will be informative with how it came to where I am today of being married and how I have learned from prior mistakes that was made in my life. And I will also tell how our love for each other has grown stronger and how we have become closer in our path of life. This is a hard journey to accomplish and make it last a lifetime. Life Changing Experience 3 A Wonderful Life Changing Experience I was young and had lots to learn about being married and becoming a wife, the thought I had in my mind that marriage was supposed to be easier, as they make it look in fairy tale stories. I then realized it was not so easy. I was married to a man that never took marriage seriously and it affected our relationship drastically. Our marriage lasted for only six months. In those six months he refused to work to support our family. After several months of financial struggle, I woke up one day with the realization that my sons and I did not deserve this type of life. I decided to move on and search for someone who valued a marriage the same way I did. When I think back on when I first met my husband, it still gives me butterflies. Our...
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...Have you ever had someone tell you what or what not to do in your life, even though you felt that you should take a completely different path? Well my name is Lindsee and I am going to tell you about how I’ve dealt with this for the past year and a half. Just to give you my relationship timeline in a nutshell: I met Brett in August of 2012. Two weeks after we met he went to boot camp and training for the Marine Corps. That was six long months of barely seeing each other or talking. We wrote many letters and talked as much as we could, which was not a lot at all. He came home in March, in June he found out he was deploying to Afghanistan some time soon, and proposed to me in July. After debating possibilities for a few days, we decided to get married before he left. We planned an entire wedding and were married two weeks after the engagement. We got to have a week and a half of married life before he had to leave. So for the next few minutes I would like to tell you how we overcame the criticism, what life is like being married to a Marine at such a young age, and what I would do differently if I could rewind time. Brett was in boot camp for 3 months, with no communication except for snail mail. After that he went to more training, and then to schooling. Six months of almost no communication outside of letters. You can believe that people were calling me insane for being so devoted to a guy I knew for two weeks before he left. I was told it wouldn’t last, he would be different when...
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...chance of being successful, but this percentage really comes from the divorce rate. The days of “Happily Ever After” and “Till death do us apart” are gone for many people. However, I have learned from my parents that happily ever after and till death do us apart still exists for many couples like them. That is why I believe that despite the big amount of people getting divorced now a days, happily ever after still exists and can be possible. As kids we were shown movies with all having a happy ending and we grew up with the idea of one day getting married and living happily ever after. But in real life things are not so simple. There are many ways to define a marriage as successful or happily ever after. Here, Ill define it this way: Two people who have been married in the eyes of God for 25 years or more and still have mutual interest for each other. They like to spend time together, enjoy each others company, and don’t keep secrets from each other. A couple who is together for love rather than just out of habit. I'm happy to know that my parents meet these standards. My parents have been married for 33 years now and I've seen the struggles and obstacles they've had and how they managed to overcome them. If you ask my parents, they will be the first to tell you that marriage isn't always easy and that there are many days where both parties want to quit, but they will also tell you that life is good on the other side. Every marriage goes through rough times but it is the way...
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...MAMA’S MESSAGE TITLE: FEW QUESTIONS TO ASK YOURSELF BEFORE YOU SAY “I DO” Welcome to Mama’s corner. In this edition we shall be looking at salient, important and vital question that must be asked before saying “I do”. Mark 10:6-8 (NIV) “At the beginning of creation God made them male and female. For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife and they two will become one flesh”. Question 1 Why am I getting married? After salvation, walking down the aisle is probably the most important decision you will ever make in your life time because who you marry alter your destiny positively or negatively. Secondly marriage has only one door which is the front door and no back door that is, if you are in, you must remain in. Ask yourself why you want to marry now, why you want to marry this particular person. Be sure that your motivation for marriage is not due to peer pressure, parental/societal pressure, competition or trying to prove a point, the feeling that marriage provides you with financial security. Be certain that your reason(s) for marriage are pure, realistic, purpose driven and the fulfillment of destiny. Question 2 Do you truly trust each other? To trust someone is to believe that they are honest and sincere and will not deliberately do anything to harm you. A wise man once said that “trust is a burden” in other words, when you say you trust someone you have given the person the assignment of delivering on his promise. It also means that you...
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...Blessed with love, joy And companionship For all the years of your lives! ☻That special day is here again That special day is here again The day we took our vows You're just as special to me today As you still get me aroused. Happy Anniversary Lover ☻I'm sending this bouquet of love I'm sending this bouquet of love To say that I love you so much I hope I say it often enough I want you to know it's true,On this special occasion I want to remind you That you are my everything And my love is true,Happy Anniversary Lover! ☻Long after our anniversary And thi Long after our anniversary And this greeting has been thrown away Think of the thought behind it,Each and everyday, Happy Anniversary Lover! ☻if I met you on tomorrow I would still if I met you on tomorrow I would still give you my heart If you should say, "do you still love me?" I'd say, "Till death do us part"Happy Anniversary ☻Best wishes to you both on ur anniversary, Best wishes to you both on ur anniversary, May the love that you share Last your lifetime through,As you make a wonderful pair.Happy Wedding ☻To the beautiful couple in all the land To the beautiful couple in all the land, May your anniversary be Happy and Grand.Happy Anniversary ☻How true my feelings were I found How true my feelings were I found out to be The best thing in my life Was when you married me Thank you my loving wife(loving Husband), For the years we share I know one thing for sure We make a wonderful pair ☻On this special day,best wishes...
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...had one son, Hindley, and one daughter, Catherine. One day Mr. Earnshaw took a trip to Liverpool. He came back with a young boy, Heathcliff. Although Hindley did not like him, the daughter Catherine approved of him. Catherine and Heathcliff spent every day playing with each other and eventually grew to love each other. When they became older, Catherine decided to marry a man named Edgar Linton instead of Heathcliff. Heathcliff was so mad that he left the house, called Wuthering Heights, for three years. He returned soon after Edgar and Catherine got married. Heathcliff is still infuriated and wants to get revenge on everyone who did not treat him well. Hindley started drinking heavily after his wife died from giving birth to his son Hareton. Heathcliff gives money to Hindley to gamble with. When Hindley died, Heathcliff inherited Wuthering Heights. In order to get back at Catherine for getting married, he marries a woman, Isabella, who lives four miles away at a place called Thrushcross Grange. Soon after, Catherine gives birth to a daughter, also named Catherine, but dies giving birth. Isabella moved to London because Heathcliff did not treat her properly. While she was there, she gave birth to Heathcliff’s son, Linton. About twelve years later, Heathcliff went to London and got his son. Edgar did not let his daughter Catherine leave the house so she had no idea Wuthering Heights was close by. One day Catherine sneaks out and finds...
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... 2013 I chose the topic Gay Marriage, and I chose this one, because I have such a strong view and opinion on this topic. I wish that one day we could all live in a world where everyone is accepted, no matter who that love, that is my idea of a perfect world, that and no violence. Gay Marriage I know though will never be 100% accepted everywhere, and it does not have to be, everyone has the right to their own opinion and freedom of speech. I am completely for Gay Marriage, I do not see an issue at all, but I know others feel differently. I feel that the gay community should get the same treatment and same benefits we do with marriage. My opinion on this issue has always been the same as long as I can remember. I have never had a problem with gays, nor will I ever; I just view them as people. I wish everyone could have the same views, I think this world would be a better and more comfortable place. I know gays are viewed as different, and outcasts but I know I would not want to feel that way. I follow the golden rule, treat others as you would want to be treated and do unto others and you would wish them to do to you. I have never had anyone close in my family that was gay, but I have had friends that I knew were gay, and they were honestly no different than my straight friends. They treated me the same, treated their families and other friends the same, nothing different. I had this girl, who used to be one of my best friends, and she is a lesbian, and I seen how she...
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...Elizabeth Wurtzel: Why I Will Be Wed - NYTimes.com http://nyti.ms/XBIyo5 SUNDAYREVIEW | OPINION Getting Married Is Easy By ELIZABETH WURTZEL SEPT. 20, 2014 I DID not expect to fall in love at 46, and I did not expect to plan a wedding at 47. Except that I always expect to be surprised. I would love to say that I don’t know why I never got around to this until now, but that would be a big fat lie. I never got married because who would want to? I was the worst girlfriend ever. And yes, I am the crazy exgirlfriend you hear about. I had no regard for time of day or time of year or time at all. Perhaps I just had no regard. It’s not like I called boyfriends at 2 a.m. because something was wrong: I did it because I liked to talk in the dark when there was nothing good to watch on TV anymore. I also called when something was wrong, and something was always wrong, because I could work my way into serious bother about something said in passing between the appetizer and the entree the night before, and that would turn into obsessive thoughts and long, intense conversations that would stretch across business hours and interrupt meetings all the next day. I needed — always absolutely needed — to get things resolved when it was not at all convenient. I called so repeatedly that I was impossible to ignore. When technology enabled me to be demanding in many formats, my long voice mail messages became longer text messages and the longest emails. I was often hysterically...
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...Bleecker 19 sept. 2016 Love Inside My Belly “Is this the second line?” My friend asked me. I was happy with what I had seen in the test, which said: “not pregnant.” After she asked me, I looked closely again, and I saw a faint line appear which meant I might have a baby. My brain was filled with the thought: “What am I going to do? What about my parents? What are they going to think?” I was so scared to think about it. I was a good girl who had a job at school and studied hard; I was too young to be a mom and did not know how to take care of a baby. After this day, however, everything in my life changed, and I became a mom. Before I had my baby, I was a girl who always thought that the world was all pink....
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...What I Have Become | Sandtron Leon Harrell | | | | Approaching the end of my Fall Semester of 2011 I had accomplished one of the greatest things in my life. I had become a member Omega Psi Phi Fraternity Incorporated. All was well and I felt as though there was not too much else for me to conquer. Then as the semester drew to a close being advised and selecting classes for the Spring Semester began to be advertised all over myUWG. So to rid myself of all the irksome alerts of West Georgia I went and got advised. While selecting my classes my advisor brought up Personal Relationships. When I first heard it the first two things I thought were “my girlfriend took that class” and “she said it was easy.” So with me being the collegiate student I am I decided I would take it. I figured why not I’m in a personal relationship I should be able to relate. The first day of class was definitely not what I expected. I did not know that my teacher would look, think and talk like a student! From then on I knew that this was class was going to have the biggest impact on me, the way I thought, the way I talked, the way I evaluated relationships and how I looked at my life’s up and downs all together we’re going to change in due time. From the time I got advised up to the first day of class I honestly thought that this was just going to be another class. When in reality it wasn’t just another class, it was going to be THE class. From January 10, 2012 and so on, my life would...
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...TREDFOR Before I did the interview, I was already worrying about finding a married couple to interview for our TREDFOR Vocation Exposure Program. Some of my classmates said that I should just interview my parents if I really can’t find other married couple because I can easily interview them whenever both of them are in the house. But then again, I can’t imagine myself sitting down with them, asking them questions about their young married life like how they met and fell in love with each other, what was the sweetest thing that Dad ever did for Mom or what they did on their first date. I know that Dad is a very serious man, and is not the type to share stories about how he wooed Mom to get her attention so it would be really very awkward to interview him about those things. You get what I’m saying? Regardless, I still can’t find a couple to interview for the subject. And then I remembered, I have my sister who was only married last July this year. So I decided to interview her and his husband, Kuya Mac. The first question that I asked her was about the details of their first meeting. She told me that she was in a party with our cousin, Ate Raisy when my sister met her husband. Ate Raisy happened to be the girlfriend of one of kuya Mac’s friends which encouraged her to introduce my sister to Kuya Mac, whom she knows, has already separated with his wife though he already has a daughter with his last wife. Ate Raisy knew that Kuya Mac really needs a wife that will take care...
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...I think about how prevelent cheating has become now these days. It is actually so disheartening to know and hear about how people are able to look into his or her significant other eyes, say, “I love you” and not be faithful. It actually hurt my heart to read that Myrna Ten Bensel thought people were supposed to be married forever and have a happy ending, but then came to the realization that was not what God had in store for her. “‘He came home one evening, the evening of my son’s swimming banquet, and got all of us together and said, ‘i’m moving out. I’m divorcing your mother.’I did not know anything about it. He didn’t say the reason,”’ (Collins 275). I could not possibly imagine ever having to go through that. What an awful person her husband is. I cannot fathom how people could even remotely feel that to cheat on his or her significant other to be okay....
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...“ The Goddess of Education” -SARASVATHI- Sarasvathi is the person who brought me to this wonderful earth from her womb. She is my mother who had carried me along for almost nine months in her belly regardless where she goes or what she does. Her name itself carries a great meaning within it, which is “The Goddess of Education” in the Hinduism. For a woman who is 55 year old now, she has all the experiences needed by a normal human as she had gone through many stages in life which are commonly considered as hardship and difficulties by others. It all started when she was a kid. At the age of five, her father passed away. Being the fifth child out of six children in her family, she did not realise the loss as she was only a small kid by then. Since then, her eldest brother was the source of income for the whole family while my grandmother spent her time working as ‘ayyahma’ preferablely known as maid in a military officer’s house. Her early education took place in the Residensi School which is now known as S.K. Jalan Residensi. She continued her secondary education in St. George’s Girls School. Unfortunately, she did not manage to finish her schooling. Instead, she started working at the age of 15. She entered the working...
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