Summary: The Relationship Takes Work We try to talk about the topic of marriage here on Parenting on Purpose, once a month. Here are some of the reasons we feel that it is so important to discuss. First, if you are married, the parenting won’t work to its potential if the marriage isn’t working. Second, your marriage is training your children how to do their marriage in the future.  Your marriage gives your children a secure environment or an insecure environment. Your marriage is a team of two people with different complimenting gifts which, when working together, can divide up the training tasks and bless the children. Lastly, your marriage is the team that builds the child or hinders their potential. It is the foundation the children can grow up on. One thing that may shock us as we get married is that marriage is work. It takes work to make two separate lives, personalities, backgrounds and families into one life. It is continued work. If we don’t continue to give to our marriage relationship it can become stagnant.  Everything that is alive grows. We must put the work into our marriage to maintain growth. Check back with us all week as we discuss how to put into your marriage relationship to keep it alive, healthy and fun.    Â
