Save My Marriage Before It Is Too Late
We are currently a very happily married couple. We have young healthy kids and are quite thankfully well off. We both have our own careers but know that our family is our anchor and is something without which we know things would be different and certainly not as pleasant. Hence we are quite thankful for what we have today. I know it is sounds unusual when we say that we have our own careers yet have a perfect family life, but somehow we have been able to manage all that quite well. I guess it takes practice. But the state we are in today does not mean that it was like this all the time. We all have had our bad times - times when things were not going our way and we have had ours too. In fact I remember things had gotten so bad for us at a time that I had to take some drastic steps to save my marriage.
I knew telling myself those days that if I had to save my marriage today, something had to change. I was suffering from problems at work and had been a lifelong sufferer of depression. Hence the stress was taking its toll and I did not want to take pills anymore. In fact my condition was so bad that getting out of bed in the morning was getting difficult. My bad mood was taking a toll on our relationship since I could not offer the kind words I usually did to my wife. Luckily I had been wise enough to always keep aside a portion of my earnings as saving for a rainy day. I decided to tap into those savings and take my wife on a vacation she deserved, spending a whole month in the Bahamas. That trip gave me a lot of perspective. I knew I had the worries of daily life behind me and enjoyed myself. Above all else, it gave my mind a much needed break and finally the ability to think about what I had been missing for so long. I also refigured my priorities and found out what I wanted from life. I thought that I had been delving too much into work and hence needed to focus more on my home life. Taking a vacation and actually having the time to think about what made me happy, refreshed me a lot and when I was back, I had a new vigor for life.
I knew telling myself those days that if I had to save my marriage today, something had to change. I was suffering from problems at work and had been a lifelong sufferer of depression. Hence the stress was taking its toll and I did not want to take pills anymore. In fact my condition was so bad that getting out of bed in the morning was getting difficult. My bad mood was taking a toll on our relationship since I could not offer the kind words I usually did to my wife. Luckily I had been wise enough to always keep aside a portion of my earnings as saving for a rainy day. I decided to tap into those savings and take my wife on a vacation she deserved, spending a whole month in the Bahamas. That trip gave me a lot of perspective. I knew I had the worries of daily life behind me and enjoyed myself. Above all else, it gave my mind a much needed break and finally the ability to think about what I had been missing for so long. I also refigured my priorities and found out what I wanted from life. I thought that I had been delving too much into work and hence needed to focus more on my home life. Taking a vacation and actually having the time to think about what made me happy, refreshed me a lot and when I was back, I had a new vigor for life.
