![]() Final thoughtsĬhoosing a family theme has enabled us to grow together over the past few years in our marriage while nurturing our peaceful family. We keep a positive outlook that everything will work out one way or the other this helps us not to stress so much. ![]() We’re always together, which can seem impossible for some couples, but we love it. Which is a lot because we work together from home, and switch off who’s taking care of our daughters whom we homeschool/unschool. ![]() We enjoy every moment of our daily family time together. Plan trips and fun family activities to help make lasting memories together. We agree on child upbringing, respect each other, read at least one marriage or family book together each year. To help keep a peaceful family life, we have joint bank accounts, budget every month, we plan our goals for the year and break it down on the calendar. – Marcus Why you need to do it togetherīy working together as a team, trusting each other, listening to each other’s healthy critiques, planning, sharing duties and responsibilities, organizing our home to prevent clutter (As much as possible anyways with two kiddos), we were able to build a solid foundation for our marriage. With the information Ash passed on, our discussions, her support, and a whole lot of working together, we’ve come so far. As my wife showed me research upon research of how peaceful parenting, attachment parenting, and overall conscious parenting seemed like the best fit for us to raise emotionally intelligent children it was really hard to let go of some of the beliefs I held on to and the rigidity. In my family and culture, kids do as their told, and disrespect of any kind was not tolerated. When it came to parenting, I had a lot more challenges that brought me way out of my comfort zone. Whenever we talk about our first year of marriage, I tell Ash, honestly, if she hadn’t changed, thus improved herself, we would probably be divorced because neither of us wants to LIVE an unhappy life.Īnd she agrees as we both have done a lot of growing and changing. I needed to loosen up, listen attentively to her needs and not be rigid due to my vastly different upbringing. I had to learn to understand where Ash was coming from. And our home life is peaceful and loving as a result. I had to learn how to reparent myself, understand that my reactions were survival skills that were once needed, but now act as a prevention from connecting to others, becoming vulnerable, and are ultimately harmful to my relationships.īy learning how to respond rather than react, I’ve become a new person. I had to learn how to love myself and heal that inner child that was still so wounded from the home I grew up in. What helped us survive our first year of marriage was my husband being incredibly patient and understanding to me. Slowly and painfully, I swallowed my pride and took the steps required to work on these things, as well as the insecurities that popped up. Ash’s takeĭue to my upbringing, I didn’t know how to properly “disagree”, was very quick tempered, and had no patience the first year we were married. We both had different upbringing hence by identifying these, we were able to choose our family theme peaceful family. ![]() We quickly realized the best option moving forward was to identify what our past was, what our present is, and what we want our future to be. More importantly, we did not want to repeat some of our family or origin traumas or have our children have to go through them. We decided on this peaceful family theme for our peaceful home because of our future goals and past experiences. How do we have a peaceful family life?Ĭommunication, hand in hand partnership, working together as a team not against each other, agreeing on finances, and lots of patience are just some of the skills we use to make this happen. We decided that having a peaceful family and a calm and inviting home was our top goal for the kind of life we would like to have and raise our children in.Ī peacfeul family is what we want to be known for.Ĭheck out this post about how to create a peaceful home environment for your marriage. Peaceful family life! Having a peaceful family life (our family theme) is one of our important goals.Īs a couple, we believe it is essential to have simple, common, yet integral goals for your marriage, and family. ![]()
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