Happy With What I’ve Got
I can’t help but write about Nadeen and Alex again. I mentioned them yesterday in my post about happily married couples seeming to have the secret to looking and feeling young. From the moment Nadeen and Alex heard about the Happy Wives Club, they began sharing with me some of the benefits they’ve enjoyed from marriage: having a partner throughout the unavoidable ups and downs of life, raising two beautiful boys together, enjoying “us” time, reaching for their dreams together, etcetera.
She and Alex told me they’d recently been talking about the fact that almost all the people around them were getting divorced or were unhappy in their marriages. Their relationship was a bit of an anomaly among their group of family and friends. I inquired about what they thought was the difference between their happy marriage and the unhappy marriages of many of those around them. It took only seconds for them to answer, “So many people think the grass is greener on the other side and they try [in vain] to find happiness somewhere else. We prefer our own grass.”
They told me how so many of those around them bought big houses outside of the city and then spent all their time on the road commuting to and from work, barely having any time for their families. Alex and Nadeen have always kept it simple. They bought a small home and made sure the entire family had dinner together every night. Now, that the kids are grown and it’s just the two of them, they spend almost every waking hour at their print shop. But they’d have it no other way because even when they’re at work, they’re still together. They’ve always made their family the priority.
I thought about them again today as I sit in my hotel room in Harrisburg, PA. I’m certain they’ll be a lot of beautiful green grass in this city. But the greenest grass, the garden I love the most, is awaiting me in Los Angeles, California and I can’t wait to return home.
Question: So many marriages break up because people think the “grass is greener on the other side.” What do you do to ensure your own grass is what you prefer most?
Until Monday…make it a great day!
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Fawn Weaver
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