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My husband Manuel and I celebrated our first wedding anniversary over the weekend and I was inspired to share 10 important practices we followed in our first year of marriage!
10 Practices that help us have a Healthy Marriage
1. Putting your marriage first is the utmost important—nothing is more valuable than this.
2. Support each other’s happiness—don’t let your partner stay at a crummy job just because you’re scared of what will happen. Support them, help them, guide them—everything will ALWAYS work out the way it should. No amount of money is worth yours or your spouses’ happiness.
3. Celebrate each other—your spouse killed a presentation they worked on relentlessly for the past 2 weeks?—celebrate it! Small celebrations are feel-good moments and you need to be each other’s biggest supporters.
4. Don’t f o r g e t to date your spouse! Just because you’re married doesn’t mean you stop going to the movies, dinners or weekend getaways. Quality time with each other only strengthens your relationship.
5. When times are good pray together, when times get hard, pray even harder.
6. I know this may be broken record advice, but NEVER go to sleep angry with one another. This will not solve anything. Communication is the utmost important thing to have in a healthy relationship. You need some space? Okay, go to the store and get some fresh air—come back and talk it out. People can forgive, but don’t forget, so choose your words wisely when you’re angry.
7. Set goals and celebrate milestones. Yesterday, over dinner we made new goals to work towards for our second year of marriage and it felt so good to be setting these goals with my husband. We also celebrated the milestones we met this past year—I earned my second degree and he landed a job he really wanted! It’s important to reflect on what you both want (this ties into communication).
8. Something people misconstrue is that a marriage is 50/50—this is f a r from true. Marriage is 100/100, you should always give 100% —sometimes you may have to carry a little more weight but hey, that’s okay—no one is perfect—supporting one another financially, emotionally is vulnerability needed in a marriage that will only make you stronger.
9. Don’t be afraid to argue or disagree, you’re not going to love the same shows, shopping stores, etc. and that is okay! Your soulmate doesn’t have to love everything you do. This ties into independency, you still need to be your own and be able to make your own decisions. Now I’m not saying y’all need to be complete opposites—it’s also important to want the same things out of the relationship such as marriage, kids, etc. (deal breakers).
10. Love each other relentlessly & without limitations. Your partner is your other half & you should reciprocate one another. When you marry someone you are accepting them flawed and all, don’t go into a marriage thinking you can change them.
If you have any advice, I’d love to hear from you. Comment below or reach me here!
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