Choosing Marriage: Why It Has to Start with We>Me

by Debra K. Fileta

They go into marriage with the goal of what marriage will do for them, rather than what they will do for their marriage.

But marriage is not simply about your happiness. It’s not even about you. It’s about unconditional love, which we choose to give time and time again. It’s about sacrificing, serving, giving, and forgiving, and then doing it over again.

A good marriage comes from a series of decisions over an extended period of time, with the commitment of two people choosing to love each other no matter what may come their way.

Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away.6