Romance to many of us, might mean gifts of flowers or jewelry or declarations of undying love. It might be special celebrations and candlelit dinners. And yes, there are times when every marriage could do with a little dose of those romantic moments. But what about the real romance of being married?
The real romance can just be the joy of curling up next to the same person each night and knowing that they’re going to be right there when you wake up in the morning, every morning. It can be having that special someone to share important news and excitement with or even just to vent with and to listen when something has upset you, or when you just want to unwind about another person or the world’s injustices.
This week Australia is heading towards an election and we’re getting all the campaign ads in the letterbox and add all over the TV, so there’s been a bit of that venting going on at times in our house about the way the campaign is being run.
Sadly the majority of the politicians seem more intent on running the other party and its leader down than they do on concentrating on what they are going to do if they get in to benefit our country and its people.
In a marriage too, we need to be thinking about what we can do for the partnership, what we can do to spur our spouse on. We won’t do it with negative comments and criticism. We will do it by encouragement and praise. Encouragement and praise are romantic. That’s real romance, real attitudes and values in real life.
Too often politicians aren’t faithful to the promises they made during election campaigns. In marriage we need to be faithful to the promises we made back on our wedding day. That’s what real romance is all about, faithfulness, commitment, encouragement, praise and sharing a life together day by day.
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