Today is my anniversary

Today, Jill and I celebrate 26 years. It has been full of highs, lows and everything in between. I wanted to talk with you about those lessons I have learned.

1- Stay committed. No matter what is happening in your relationship. For men, we can get to "i give up." This can more quickly then our spouse. Dad, don't give up. Stay committed. Do so with intentionality.

2- Keep working at deepening your relationship. Marriage takes commitment and it takes hard work. Sometimes this is incredibly hard. I do have friends that have told me they have never found marriage to be hard work. I seriously bow to them. This is not the case for Jill and I. I will just own that possibly I am the one that makes it hard. I don't know. But, what I do know is this. We can get complacent. Don't give in to this but keep working at getting better and deepening you relationship.

3- You are responsible for your family. I spoke this to one man. He said to me don't even put that pressure upon me. Dad's the pressure is upon us. We do carry the responsibility of our family. The success and the failure of it does fall upon us. Our culture looks to balme others. Take this responsibility, commitment and work at it.

Dad's can you give us any examples from these three lessons?