Still Think She's looks like A Babe...Always & Forever!

You must be curious enough about my life to read this. Am I normal? Not even close.... Well, normal is relative.

I have been talking with my wife Sarah about how crazy it is that this July will be the 2nd year we have been married. The time has gone by with each day being an amazing opportunity to get to know each other better than we did the day before. We just keep finding ways to compliment each other. We both graduated from college together this April and have the world in front of us. Always having different input from family members about how to best live out our lives, but at the end of the day, we work together to figure it out. I got a job offer in July to work at a finance company but both of us being business minded coupled with the spirit of entrepreneurship, we want to continue to further the work of decentralizing the world by doing our part.

Marriage is something that is failing in so much of the world... but Why?

If Marriage fails, then families will fall apart and communities will be weak and unable to progress.

When my car is breaking down, I often know what the problem is or how to fix it, which allows me to get it back up and running in no time. I believe that many people feel that some problems in marriage are too big to fix or the solution is one that can not be found. Just like a car needs preventative maintenanc, a marriage does too.

You may have grown up in a home where your parents did not have a healthy, successful marriage so you lost hope of what a healthy marriage can look like. Marriage is at the heart of a successful community because it is a foundational building block at the core of humanity.

What We have Been Taught

First off, when Sarah is sad, feed her mostly chocolate. Ha! Not really, but doing this sparingly is okay.
When she needs a photo taken, she is really saying "I feel beautiful, will you capture this picture of me?" Often times these things are not my first thoughts. Learning to recognize what she is meaning has been huge. Sarah is a remarkable woman to say the least, I married up. Every man should feel that they are happy with the women they have by there side.

Growing up, my parents did not have a successful marriage because of mental health problems that were extreme that my mom ended up facing two years after my parents got married. My poor dad had a rough road ahead, but looking back, all those experiences have built some rock solid charicter. How else do you build character whithout really trying experiences?

How We Keep A Strong Marriage

We work at it every day. Having more awareness than we did the day before about one another's needs. We have found that praying together each night brings us closer together and the things that were annoying or frustrating are forgotten while the sweet thoughtful things are remembered and brought to light when we pray together.

This is so out of my comfort zone to write because in the last 26 years of my life, writing has been somthing that I have always felt that I never had anythnig to say that was worth reading much becasue I did not have a mother to teach me as a young child. I had a little bit of a late start that many other children don't have to worry about. It was not until High School that I would begin to fell comfortable reading out in public. It is amazing how far we can come as we work and strengthen a weakness that we have. Hope this helps you understand me a little bit better as I reveal more about myself and how human I am and we all are. We all have a story to tell and this is a part of mine.