Great Commitment Song

Listen to this great song by Jason Mraz and then read about how you can use what you learn in your marriage.

How will we achieve anything and everything?  One word, commitment.

The song “I Won’t Give Up” by Jason Mraz has the word commitment written all over it.  “Well, I won't give up on us, Even if the skies get rough” or “I don't wanna be someone who walks away so easily I'm here to stay and make the difference that I can make”.

This song exemplifies the true meaning of enduring love through complete commitment to your spouse.  To be committed in marriage is to be dedicated to the one you promised to spend your life with.  Will there be hard times?  Absolutely!  “And when you're needing your space, To do some navigating, I'll be here patiently waiting, To see what you find”.  Are you patient with your spouse?  Even in the “I can’t stand to even look at you times”?

You cannot expect great things to stem from your marriage when only one person is making all the effort.  It takes 100% of hard work from both the husband and the wife, working together to obtain true marital happiness. When you’re seeking true happiness in your marriage you need to be sure to seek out what makes your spouse happy, to serve them, and they need to be seeking out the same thing for you.

Commitment is what keeps a couple together because sometimes throughout your life you’ll go through phases where you won’t love or like anyone, including your spouse and having that commitment is what will keep you bonded together.  Every husband and wife have a responsibility to love and care for one another.

Also, parental commitment proves in research to be associated with fewer behavior problems with children and between children and parents. Wives, you need to remember that commitment in marriage changes men more than women because of the large amount of responsibilities they are taking on.  Remember to help them and honor them for deciding to make those changes to permanently make you a part of their life.

Implementing:

Find a way to have a tradition with your spouse or your entire family that bring the feelings of warmth, unity, and commitment.

1.  Every New Year’s Eve or New Year’s Day sit down with your spouse and re-commit yourselves to each other and come up with ways that you can do that throughout the year.
1.  Be sure to continue to date each other: weekly, bi-monthly, whatever works best for you but be sure to make it as regular and often as possible.
2.  Make time to talk, just the two of you, once a week: avoid talking about money, work, and the children.
2. Re-visit where ever it was that you got married once or twice a year if permissible and remember the promises you made with each other.  You can also choose to renew the vows you made when you united as one.
3. Watch a movie or a TV series that exemplifies commitment between a husband and wife or all family members in general.  Seek out what they are doing to stay committed to each other and see if you can implement those principles into your life together.
4. Write letters to each other and express the characteristics that you love about each other and the things that they do to make you feel secure in your marriage.

Action Plan:

Ask yourself why you’re committed to your spouse and take some time to ponder that.  Then come together as husband and wife and discuss why you decided to commit to each other at the start of your marriage and why you’re still committed to this day and lastly, how and why you’ll continue to be committed from this day forward.

For the next month make a conscious effort to remain committed or to recommit yourself to your spouse, even during those times when you may not be able look at them, and then meet together at the end of the month and talk about how each of you did and how you can do better next month.