Lindsay and I continually work on our marriage and full headedly believe that our marriage is partially the result of our association with World Wide Dreambuilders and the people in this organization we hang around with that also have great marriages.  I won’t say it’s 100% because of this because you still need to apply what you see, hear and learn and I think we do a good job at that.  Lets just say at the highly unlikely event that we end up leaving or quitting, our marriage will be better for it because of what we’ve learnt from the people and great organization we were a part of.  That won’t happen because we’ve seen example after example in succession of how this works at continually building a great marriage and family life.  Nothing anyone says can shake my tree because we are experiencing it first hand and seeing the fruits of our labour.

Something I’ve learnt over the years, outside of World Wide Dreambuilders and in World Wide Dreambuilders is that you NEED to work on your marriage constantly.  The minute you take your marriage for granted or start to slack is when you start having problems.  A great first book I’d recommend is The 5 Love Languages which I am about 1/3 rd the way through.  Just understanding exactly what Lindsay loves will do wonders for our marriage.  She’s already told me her love languages so it makes sense, but to read the book really hits home and makes it sink in even more. 

As much as the comment makes me feel good we still have to keep working hard at our marriage and try to set that example in a day where marriages are falling apart more often then in the past.  I could be wrong but that’s just my perception from what I’ve seen in my life and in the news.  I have to give a shout out to Bridgett and she made a great comment a few posts back about her take on marriages and divorce.

Because I know one of my wife’s love language is “acts of service” I decided to make part of my day cleaning up the condo.  Not because I need brownie points, but because I know my wife loves when I do this and it makes her happy.  Its one way that I can really give back and serve my partner and really show that I know her and what she likes. 

So while there are many things that I do for my wife, I know this is one of the big ones that really does make her feel good.  I would never have known that until she read this book.  I would have kept doing other things to make her happy but never know exactly what did.  I think she was also quite surprised when she read this book.

This is just one of the many ways of how we continually work on our relationship and one of the key things that World Wide Dreambuilders teaches.  We are in an amazing business and for a business such as this that cares so much about family life is really really awesome.  Try finding that in your 9-5 job!

 Find out your love lanugages here! http://www.5lovelanguages.com/assessments/