Continuing yesterday’s post on Rumpel, we perceive the combat inside the character, with him being forced to choose between magic, his power source that keeps his fears and inadequacies at bay and his son, whom he loves most, and whom is now lost and gone into another realm.
Welcome back to the blog! Today we are continuing the Relationship Series with one of my favorite topics. Having a thriving marriage when divorce rates are 50% may sound like a ruthless joke and depending on where you find yourself in life, it can seem impossible especially if you have been burnt and hurt like many people’s hearts have been. This will NOT be another post about marriage and relationships meant to take you foreign paths and run after an impossible ideal such as “4 tips ensuring he never leaves” or “how to get what you need right now”. A successful marriage takes diligent work yet not the kind of work that sucks the energy out of you because it has this unique exponential quality that the more you work on yourself the more the marriage grows. There are so many tips I could list that build a strong foundation for marriage it would hardly fit in one blog post. I will try and share the most important pillars that will grow your marriage’s roots stronger:
Firstly, I would like to mention that it is a very reasonable question to ask especially after trying for a long time to patch a relationship or after trying to reconcile two very different personalities, ways of being or thinking. As some of you may feel guilty, as I certainly felt in the past for even conceptualizing such a question, I would like to say a word of encouragement: it is very liberating when we relax our assumptions about how God is supposed to act and take Him out of the box we tend to put Him into. Additionally, I believe every human being will deal with a dying relationship at some point in life so opening mind and heart to this topic will only bring benefits!