posted April 14, 2017 10:33 AM
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It's hard to find the positive in anything!!
Good practice for what marriage is like???
If you can FIND the positive, and cultivate it, then you actually have a tool for working on a marriage relationship.
A lot of people look forward to the fantasy of Togetherness-- the party, the dress and suit, the starting-over in life. It's like the death of one world, and a rebirth into a whole new state.
I like what I read some astrologers say-- be engaged, but don't marry until you 'see' that spouse go through their Mars-Return. That's a two-year engagement! ... but most people don't want to put their lives on hold that long. ... Thing is? Two-years, for investment for a Lifetime?
I know the 'pang' inside where you wouldn't have wanted THAT long of a wait with your Beloved. The crush inside that you could have been in married-state for two-years, if it winds up being a glorious match. There's a magnetism, a longing to be ONE. Almost like there's a resentment for having Bodies, because it Separates you from their Heart, from their DEPTHS, from their Inside. You want to be THAT Close!, and can never full-fill it as earthly animals.
I guess too, it would depend on the 'reason' for getting married.
In the past days, marriages between kingdoms were arranged for safety and property reasons. There was no room for a personal wish such marrying for Love and romantic notions. It was a Business deal.
Marriage is a day-to-day relationship. You're together, AND, you discover who you each are, day to day to day. ... Definitely for 'grown-ups' and your most selfish desires must die (ego).
Rewards come, with each adversity, and each personal time you master your own self. You build and climb the steps, one at a time.
Married is definitely a 'portal' you cross...
And you in deepest psychological romantic levels really don't know what to expect until after the magic-words "I do" are uttered in (expensive) Legal Vow! You find out "what you did!!"
I still think it's Worth it. Lots of HARD work-- but if you have a worthy-partner, who's IN it for the Long-Run, it's stable and a wonderfully secure place to be.
You Belong WHOLE-Self WHOLE-Heart to One Another.
(music) Do You Love Me? (clip from Fiddler on the Roof lyrics) [2:35] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6A2MBneb7lc
It's an extreme different Portal, crossing a threshold into a TOTALLY different Life you take on willingly together. Filled with sorrows you can face Together, AND Joys.
The words and tone of this song... so much Wisdom. So touching.
So dire. So permanent. Ah Life! Ah Love!
(music) Far From the Home I love (clip from Fiddler on the Roof, lyrics) [3:11] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JNTNU7etW8