Human beings are supposed to be intelligent and smarter than the animal and bird kingdom right? But maybe we’re not so smart after all. Sometimes we could take note and learn from them.
For example we have a dog, part Shih Tzu part Maltese Terrier. Whenever Mick and I come home, no matter whether we have been gone five minutes or hours, she is so pleased to see us she lets us know by greeting us enthusiastically and affectionately.
Do we show the same enthusiasm when our spouse comes home? Mick and I always kiss and hug before one of us goes going somewhere and again when we are back together. It doesn’t matter when the absence is a few minutes or hours. It lets the other person know they are missed.
When it comes to the bird world, the swan, barn owl and albatross are three species that mate for life. That’s what marriage should be too. Instead, some people seem to view marriage as a temporary arrangement that like a revolving door can be walked out of when it no longer meets their needs, and walked back into when it suits.
In a blog written by the wife of one of my favorite Sydney Swans footballers, Hayley wrote about lessons learned from geese. She was thinking about them in relation to a team but some of the lessons can be applied do marriage as well. She was talking about geese and the way they fly in formation.
‘When the lead goose gets tired, it rotates back into the formation and another goose flies at the point position.
Lesson: It pays to take turns doing the hard tasks, and sharing leadership, interdependent with each other.’ Doesn’t that sound to you like a picture of what should happen in marriage? It sure did to me.
When one person is struggling and finding it hard to cope the other spouse should be there to share the leadership and help out. In that way each on is dependent and upholds the other at various times.
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