The question is this: Are you surrounded by people who support and encourage your marriage (or marriage in general), or by people who don’t care one way or the other whether your marriage (or any marriage) lasts?

When I think about most of the people in our life, I realize that we are surrounded by people who support us and would do anything they could to see our marriage succeed. This includes friends/family who are single, married, divorced, and widowed. While there were a few people who thought we were too young when we first got married, once we were hitched, those few also jumped on the support wagon.

Marriage is hard. I’ve been around others whose marriages are made even more difficult by other people constantly criticizing and ridiculing either someone’s spouse, or the institution itself. I’m not saying that there aren’t problems that happen in a marriage that shouldn’t be brought into the open if they are unhealthy or harmful. I’m just saying, in general, that I’m thankful that, for all the issues that a marriage must survive, trying to justify it to those around us isn’t usually one of ours.

How ’bout you? Do you feel that your marriage is supported by those around you? Would it help your marriage if it was?

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