Serve Each Other

I have been learning a lot about the role of a husband and father the last year and a half that I have been married. If there is one thing that I have learned, it is selflessness. Or rather, I have learned the importance of selflessness because I am far from being completely selfless. I have learned that as my wife and I make conscious and concerted efforts to put the happiness of the other before our own, there is an added abundance of love, kindness, and trust.

As an example, since we've been married, my wife has cleaned the bathroom every week, and I have cleaned it maybe twice. My wife knows that I can't stand cleaning the bathroom, and so she has always made the concerted effort to do it, knowing that she is serving me. I am sincerely grateful for her, and it has made me that much more willing to help her do the things she doesn't like doing.

Often, we clean the house while the other is away at work to surprise each other. We love doing this, and it has made our marriage richer.

There are a myriad of things that put stress on a marriage each day, so by putting your loved one's needs above our own, and if both husband and wife do this, there is an increase in love, trust, and affection that cannot be matched.