Patience is a commodity that is not often talked about these days. It is one that is necessary in marriage.
That patience is that we need when marriage hits a rough spot as all marriages, no matter how good they are, do at times. We need patience when things are not going the way we would like or our spouse is not behaving as we would like or we are not able to do the things we want to do whether because of finances, family issues, illness or whatever it might be.
This has been brought home to me again over this week. Since Mick has been sick now for weeks, we both need patience as he is not getting well as quickly as either of us would like. We both feel a little stir crazy being confined to the house so much or with me having to go and do things on my own, which is not what we’d normally do.
Also this week since he was feeling able to concentrate a little, he has been helping me update my website and put up details of my new book coming out soon, as well as a few other changes regarding covers of books on my site. Because I am such a techo incompetent I need his input and help.
To add to the situation there was a glitch between the program we were using to update and my computer, which resulted in a blank pages a couple of times instead of my website coming up. It would have been very easy for him to become frustrated and decide it was all too hard. But he exerted patience and eventually, we not only got the website up he managed to set up a PayPal button for one of the books on my books page.
There are still things that need to be done but I felt his patience had been exerted enough for one day, so we’ll come back to them another day.
So sometimes it’s about exerting patience with our spouse and other times it’s about exerting patience ourselves that we don’t expect everything done instantly. That’s the give and take of marriage.
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