For a successful marriage to work, sacrifice is essential. The same can be said for any two people trying to work together to accomplish a goal but it more vital in a marriage setting. Before you are married you have your way of doing things, the way you have been doing things for years. From doing your laundry, cooking, cleaning, and spending your free time. For myself I knew I was going to sacrifice some of these things to make my marriage work but I was not sure what it was. For a little bit of context I was one of the oldest of my friends, about year. When I got back from serving my mission, all of my friends were pretty much gone to school or on missions. With this head start I was the first of my friends to get engaged. When we got engaged I quickly realized there was a divide between my friends and my future wife. My wife got frustrated at one point and I needed to show her that she was my number one priority. I never thought I was going to need to make a sacrifice like that but I ended up proving my love for her, which was what she needed to see in me. As we got married and I wasn’t spending as much time with my friends, it was hard but as time went on my wife also understood that my friends were important to me and now all of us get together often. This was a tough sacrifice but I knew that taking care of my wife was the most important thing.
I love this quote by elder Holland “No one would wish a bad marriage on anyone. But where do we think “good marriages” come from? They don’t spring full-blown from the head of Zeus any more than does a good education, or good home teaching, or a good symphony. Why should a marriage require fewer tears and less toil and shabbier commitment than your job or your clothes or your car? Yet some of you will spend less time on the quality and substance and purpose of your marriage—the highest, holiest, culminating covenant you make in this world—than you will in maintaining your ’72 Datsun. And you will break the hearts of many innocent people, including perhaps your own, if that marriage is then dissolved. “You must [not give] half-hearted compliance [to a marriage],” said President Kimball. “[It requires] all [our] consecration”. So every worthy task will require all that we can give to it. The Lord requires the heart and a willing mind if we are to eat the good of the land of Zion in the last days.” (However Long and Hard the Road, Holland)
We are required to sacrifice many things and it requires that we give everything to it.
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