I’m writing this while I’m sitting in the airport waiting to
board our plane to Idaho! Colbie is sitting next to me coloring in her coloring
book and this trip is already going 10x better than I expected! Jake has to
stay home this trip for dental school, so it’s just us.
A couple weeks ago, I got a new phone and when I got it, it
didn’t transfer over all the contacts. So for the past few weeks I’ve been
trying to figure out who’s who when they message me. Well, just after that I
got a message from a random friend that said: “I saw this on fb and thought you
might like it for a wedding blog!”. Then she sent me a quote.
That text made me super happy both before and after I
figured out who had sent it! It was so sweet that she thought of me and my blog
of all things!
As I’m sitting here in the airport, just after saying good
bye to Jake (my husband) for a week in a half,
I couldn’t help but reflect on the quote she sent me!
“When you are married, be fiercely loyal one to another”. –
Gordon B. Hinckley
Fiercely loyal! I loved that wording. It automatically made me think of a blogpost
my dear friend wrote a few years ago. I loved it so much that it’s stuck with
me since. I wish I could just give you
the link to read it because it was so much better than anything I could write, but I searched and searched and couldn’t dig it up in time
for this blogpost. If I do find it I’ll share it!
So I’ll just briefly sum it up! She said that a study was
done on two groups of people who were told to select paintings from a studio for their
home. One group was told that they could select any painting they wanted and if
they didn’t like it they could return it and trade it out for another one. The second group was told that they would
only be able to select one painting and that they couldn’t exchange it or
trade.
Each group went through and picked out their paintings,
comparing and contrasting.
What they found from this study was interesting. The people
who had the choice of going back and selecting a different painting were less
satisfied with their choices, while they also found that the group that only had the one choice were generally more content and happy with their
decisions.
What does this have to do with marriage? Well she went on to
say that when you go in to marriage with the idea that you can exchange if you
don’t end up liking it, it leads to less satisfaction with your choice because
you end up always comparing it to what you could have. And then the
opposite, that when you go into marriage, with the decision from the beginning
that this is your one choice, you compare less, work harder, and are more
satisfied with your decision and marriage.
I loved that blogpost. I didn’t really do it justice, but
you get the idea! Hopefully I’ll get to share the link sometime. So, with all
that being said, think about that quote again.
“When you are married, be fiercely loyal one to
another.”. –Gordon B. Hinckley
Maybe it’s the fact that I’m going to be away from my hubby
for two weeks and am feeling emotional
about it, but I just have to say that I am so grateful for my husband, for how
supporting, loving, kind, and fiercely loyal he is to me. I could never have
found a better husband, even if I searched a thousand years! We’re not perfect,
but we work hard and love each other "fiercely".
Hope you all have a fabulous week!
Xoxo
Trisha
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