Marriage is Like a Mountain

We celebrated our 30th anniversary in Prague, Czechia, a city that appears to have come straight out of the pages of a fairytale! Castles, rivers, draw bridges, and dungeons that are hundreds of years old, having survived the test of time.

Ah… perfection! The tale that is as old as time.

And yet, as we dove into Prague’s turbulent history of many wars, good and bad kings, deportation and eventual extermination of tens of thousands of Jews, and four decades of communist rule, we realized things weren’t so perfect after all.

As we left Prague, we took a train to the countryside, only to find there were no Ubers or taxis. So we walked to the inn at the top of a mountain, with suitcases in tow.

Our journey (thanks Apple Maps ) took us through lovely neighborhoods with lilacs blooming, on dusty dirt roads, through expansive grassy fields, and then dead ended at a forest. Luckily, a Czech woman (who spoke no English, but was willing to try out Google Translate with us) and her dog guided us to the forest…still uphill… to the main highway. We finally reached our destination an hour and a half after we started.

As we look back on our wonderful trip, do you know what was our very favorite part? Our journey and adventure in the countryside! (Yes, there’s even more to it!)

So I started thinking… maybe marriage is more like climbing a mountain than living in a fairytale.

As we look back on our own 30 years of history together, we can see both good and bad, peaceful and excruciatingly difficult, times of believing we were right and our spouse was wrong.

But the best thing is that we can still remember the beautiful parts. We are growing together!

And we still choose each other!

Check out this week’s episode of Marriage iQ where we reminisce about pivotal points and lessons learned.

Action Tip:

Turn to your spouse and instigate reminiscing about the pivotal points, lessons learned, and beautiful parts of your own marriage.

Look at old photos if you are having a hard time remembering.

And keep turning to each other.

Listen here on Spotify or watch two segments on YouTube.

(FYI: we can’t share the YouTube link anymore… we found it was sending our emails to junk mail… but go to YT and search for Marriage iQ if you want to see some of the pictures and videos embedded into the episode).

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