For Loving Couples

We Have So Many Plans as to How our Life is Going to Be.

The relationship that we typically imagine goes something like this: We are young and fit and in love, we know we are better together then apart and so we get married and vow to stay that way till the end of time. We work hard to make all the right moves and create a fun-filled exciting life, one that will provide both security and financial gains of some level.

But we also want to leave something behind, we want our own legacy to carry on through the ages; we start building our family tree. We continue building and making sacrifices for the family because we want our children to have the very best in life. Eventually, a day arrives when you realize you have set aside your own dreams and aspirations to have the family you dreamt of. But now there you are, 30-40-50 years older, and you want to go and climb to the highest points on earth or swim with the biggest mammals in the deep blue sea.

 It’s when we realize that we made choices, choices that only the lucky few get to make. We had felt a need to create future generations to share our world with. These are the things we do as loving couples.So when is it our turn?
You have grown children and life is settling back to normal. Work has lightened to a manageable rate and you’re enjoying your run of the house like you use to. Yes, life is good. You start dreaming again—planning things—like you use to. You’reonce again setting goals about where and when you want to be and things to do. You begin to pick up where you had left off. Sure there will be changes, because you’ve changed over the years. Now you and your loved one find new things to enlighten you. You get a small taste and start enjoying more interesting travels and decide this is going to be “ok”.

 But wait, there’s more. One child is having an issue and needs financial support and another is having challenges in completing college—they need your guidance and help. Another has started a family of his own and you both have to be there for that. This is what we wanted? Right… There are just good times and bad. It comes with the territory of having a family.

 We have to lead by example and that means putting aside our own wants and desires for the betterment of our family. We are parents. It a phase of our relationship that neither of us could have planned for or had ever thought of as we first met. But together we have helped each other and we have done a good thing, we have raised our children to be good citizens and we pray they do the same in their lives.

So did we do it right? Nobody knows. There comes a time in your life when you realize that this was a path you chose and these are the things that have made life worth living. That’s what makes us complete—and the loving couple that we now are.