Marriage Wisdom

Being Wise or a Wiseguy by Giulietta Passarelli

Marriage can be and is a beautiful way to live. It’s a choice, and it doesn’t matter if you chose not to have a partner or if you didn’t find anyone that shared your feelings, common interests, or dreams. It’s okay because relationships come in many different packages, whether it’s a friendship, a partnership, or a family relationship. They are the door to sharing a person’s life, their company, their feelings, and all that goes with sharing, like halving a piece of pie together. It’s wonderful in that way, being present in a person’s life. Yet, as you know, relationships are work and tend to be harder than they are supposed to be, or you’d expect. There seems to always be surprises from a lack of communication or contact or just plain, “Surprise!”

For those of you that are in the throes of a partnered relationship or maybe one where you are divorced or no longer together, you’ve probably learned many things or gained wisdom. Here I offer a few that come to mind about marriage – some from what I’ve learned myself and from others. You might know or have experienced some of these. If not, pay attention, because knowledge is power:

· Blood is thicker than water

· That it’s better to have a happy short marriage, than a long, drawn-out, unhappy one