By Klao Bell, ContributorA GOOD marriage promises to be a win-win situation for you, your partner and your relationship, so go on, throw yourself into building a strong union.
Marriage provides an excellent environment for personal development. The commitment, dedication, discipline, hard work and selflessness required to make a marriage work will help to shape you into a better, stronger person than you have ever understood yourself to be.
However, it's not a simple transition to shift from independence and autonomy to voluntarily sharing your life with someone and acquiring new labels - couple - Mrs. But, having entered into marriage, consciously and for all the right reasons, the new experience takes you down some mind-growing paths that make it a meaningful trade-off.
Before arriving at this perspective, I had to reconcile that being married also unveiled a few 'unconvivial' things about myself. But being keen on fully engaging in this new experience, I've been working on these tendencies and I just love the results. I've discovered a lot about myself; including that I have higher levels of tolerance, patience, kindness and consideration than any other of my environments would have elicited.
So I'm excited for all those young (and not so young) people who have made the decision to 'mek life together'. Get ready to invest in yourself vicariously through your investment in your partner and your marriage - and become a better person for it.
