Gordie 23 one year after she dropped the D

[Gordie]

From the MWD newsletter:

"I think you hit the nail on the head. Commitment is what makes marriages work through all kinds of challenges.

Those of us who have been married forever (Wayne and I have been married 47 years and counting) know that life has its ups and downs not to mention the twists and turns no one can predict when you first fall in love.

If you want to know before you get married if it will work you have to look not only at your future partners values, behavior and the way they deal with challenges--you must become aware of your own.

You and your partner need to be committed to making it work. Long term happy marriages don't just happen-- you make them happen.

And by the way they won't always be happy--there will be some very tough times when you will question not only why you married this person, but why you are staying married.

Love will seem far away and very difficult to find--that is when commitment and "right attitudes" and having healthy values and even skills keep you there trying until you can find the love that was there all along just buried under the suffering that life sometimes dishes out....

Thanks for the inspiration--I just wanted to let you know I think you were right on."

April