How I Got Married 12 Years Ago

My advice to you for a successful relationship is to be open and honest with each other about how you feel. It starts by identifying barriers to effective interpersonal communication. In fact, being open and honest with your significant other is very important in not creating problems later on the relationship. When you are honest you build trust. According to Pope (2007) the article states “When you’re suppressing communication and feelings during conflict with your husband, it’s doing something very negative to your physiology, and in the long term it will affect

People need companionship to help them in times of hardship. Women tend to confide more in their same sex friends rather than men who, most of the time, find competitiveness in their friendships rather than telling them things that may show signs of weakness. People who have friends of the opposite sex at this time in their life, usually share some sort of romantic bond. These types of friendships normally come from school or work, but decline after the person is married. All friendships often decline after marriage because the people involved in the relationship find the closest bonds between themselves and spend most of their time together. During marriage people find friendships with their siblings to be closer than most.

Helen Keller once stated that “Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.” Friendship can be defined in many different ways. For example a four year old might say that a friend is the other boy that gave him a cookie. While an adult says someone to talk and relate to when they need it. They are also formed in a plethora of ways. For instance, the two four year olds could grow up staying friends, or you meet some random person in the supermarket and start talking, or even through another friend. Friends are part of what makes life fun, being able to enjoy the joyous times with another person, and lean on them in the challenging times.

First, kindness like super glue can make couples together. Smiths say’s “ Research independent from theirs has shown that kindness is the most important predictor of satisfaction and stability in a marriage.” That is how kindness works in people’s marriage, my grandparents are really good for kind to each other. They are sixty two years old, and they had never argued with each other. My grandfather is a restive person, he often has wrangled with others, but it never happened with my grandmother. My grandmother is really kind, she knows how to resolve the disagreement with my grandfather. She tolerates my grandfather’s crossness and she knows when is the best time to figure out the problems. When I grown up, kindness like a inherit that I

friends who were more than willing to help him out and help him achieve what he wanted to do

In “Friendship in an Age of Economics” by Todd May, friendship is defined as different types of relationships. Todd May starts the article off with a story of him being in the hospital. A friend of his had come by and sat with him for some time. May then goes into the different types of relationships and friendships. He finishes off the article with this quote, “To be able to sit by the bed of another, watching him sleep, waiting for nothing else, is to understand where else we might be”. This quote is very meaningful because it reflects on one of the true meanings of friendship. You should be able to be with that person regardless of the situation, you should always be there for your friend, and supporting

A quote from Author Truman Capote “Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.” Buddy, from A Christmas Memory, has one friend, his distant cousin, and is loyal and kind to her all the time. Like the quote, Buddy does not have many other friends and is very friendly with the one friend he has. Jimmy and Bob’s friendship starts to deteriorate, because they don’t spend enough time each other.

To many the ideal family consists of a mother, father, siblings and relatives of various ages, but many people don’t have the opportunity to experience this structure. For others family may come in the form of friendship. Can’t a friend offer support? Instill values? Be uplifting? If the answer is “yes” the only thing that doesn’t make them family is the approved definition.

Every couple eventually comes to the painful realization that the passion they felt for each other before and at the beginning of their marriage has changed or faded. Losing this spark of attraction and sexual desire can lead to questioning the basis of the marriage. If you no longer feel excited to be with your spouse, do you ask yourself, “What else is there?” Even if you aren’t asking yourself that question, the daily grind of life that includes dealing with children, work, bills and running out of time for anything other than everyday tasks can make you wonder about the number of years that stretch ahead of you in which you’ll be doing the same things every day, over and over again.

Although his trip was difficult; The people he encounter were more friendlier than he expected, helped him by providing shelter food and companionship. He meted many lifelong-friends, on that trip.(10)

"There is a sense in their friendship that by viewing one another's lives, they were better able to formulate their own futures. Each has been enriched by his ability to explore their thoughts and feelings together, and each has been enriched from experiences with the other's father” (Napierkowski 49). Pokot shows how friendship can help better people’s lives by being more mature as individuals for conflicts and encounters people must go through in life as people grow to be

He told me he is very close with his friends and sees them as another positive influence on his life that challenge him to become a better, more responsible person, and he likewise does the same for them.

"If I don't see you on the other side," he said in a sappy voice, "remember that I love you.” (pg. 112) and “Thank you for being my friends” (pg.84). I can absolutely comprehend with the importance of friendship. Without friendship, my life would be gloomy and unmeaningful. Thomas relied on his friend when he experiences grief and stress, so do I! The importance of friendship developed my outstanding kindness, happiness, and motivation to forget the negativity and embrace the positivity. Friendship also gave me a purpose in life, motivating me to achieve success and ignore the stress; friends are why I’m excited for

If you were to ask Jesus Christ whether he has friends, he would most likely say of course I do, I am certainly friends with all of God’s children. However, after reading Aristotle, the question becomes, ‘If Jesus has friends, of which sort are they?’. Aristotle defines friendship as, “Any association of people who spend time and do things together, share in pains and pleasure, and wish for each other’s good,” (Nicomachean Ethics 1166a 1-10). Addressing each aspect of this definition, with the twelve disciples in mind, the reader concludes that they certainly spend time together, share in pains and pleasure, but the sticking point is whether they wish for each other’s good. The answer to that question determines if in fact Jesus has friends what sort they are.

In life there are many changes that can cause a true friendship to go wary such as marriage, divorce, birth of children, new careers, and sickness. However, through each of those events the two must remember to keep the intimacy, the letting down of emotional barriers and the expression of innermost thoughts and feelings, “that which makes friendships thrive must be an enjoyable one” and to “always interact” (Karbo 3). Although psychologists continue to research the formation of friendships the great philosopher Aristotle knew exactly how friendships formed and how the lasted.