Challenge Yourself to Celebrate Mistakes in Mid-Marriage

Feb 28, 2017

Celebrate mistakes in mid-marriage, because if you’re making mistakes, you’re growing. 

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Challenge Yourself to Celebrate Mistakes

Let yesterday’s mistakes go.  Make new ones today. 

In the middle of marriage, there’s every guarantee you’ve made mistakes. And you’ll be making more. Decide to let yesterday’s mistakes go. Treasure mistakes as fertilizer to grow.

In the middle of marriage…

You’re busy living – and that means there will be lots of mistakes made!

We have almost 33 years worth of mistakes to add up. But that’s OK – because it makes the blooper reel of our life extra humorous. Most of our flubbs, and muddles, and miscalculations are fodder for laughter.

When you and your spouse want to celebrate mistakes, step back from the bungle (once you’ve processed any pain) and try to see the lighter side of the issue.

Most times, when you seek to celebrate mistakes, you can view them as the inconveniences they are, and move on. However, it’s imperitive to remember these two parts of celebrating mistakes in the middle of marriage…

Two parts about mistakes to remember:

1 – Don’t blame your spouse for the mistakes… just move on.

2 – And, if you need to use those “oops” moments as a reference, then be respectful.

Don’t allow your mistakes to become your identity as a couple.

It’s not possible to solve every mistake. Some will need to be processed, and accepted. Some mistakes hurt – hurt terribly. But you can’t go back to un-make them. In every case –  even these challenging ones –  it’s important to learn how to apologize so your spouse feels your sincerity.

Learn how to apologize to your spouse, so your husband or wife can understand that you are truly sorry.  We’ll be writing a review of a favorite book on this topic – “When Sorry Isn’t Enough: Making Things Right with Those You Love” –  to provide some insight into this topic.

Dwelling on the oversights, ommissions, blotches, and errors won’t make them any easier to solve. Wallowing in the mistakes won’t un-make them. You have a choice!

Put all your energy into making things better.

Your challenge this week to celebrate mistakes:

Mistakes happen – and if you haven’t found it easy to move on, then we challenge you to remind yourself that mistakes are just fertilizer…  How?  We’ve created a PDF with some visuals/images (like those above) and a list of 29 quotes about mistakes.

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Make New Connections – Break out. Reach out.

Feb 21, 2017

Make new connections in the middle of marriage, and your marriage will grow.
Invite new people into your life – even if it’s only for a moment or so.
Reach out and make new friends.
You and your spouse still have lots to learn and other people are great resources.
In the middle of marriage, we can get stuck in routines.
Break out – reach out.
Make new connections.

Mid-marriage challenge – Make New Connections:

This is the first of (at least) 30 videos for couples in the middle of marriage – to challenge them to lead a life filled with meaning. We’re kicking it up a notch in 2017 – making videos for you! Take a look…

But it’s hard to make new friends in the middle of marriage…

Oh, yes. We understand. Time is at a premium, when you’re stuck in the middle between raising children and helping aging parents. It’s hard to make new connections when you’re tired. Or frustrated. Or challenged.

However, NOW is the best time to reach out to make new couple friends – friends are part of a meaningful life. They’ll support you, and help you cope with the ups and downs in life.

An article from the Mayo Clinic says that friendships will:

• Increase your sense of belonging and purpose
• Boost your happiness and reduce your stress
• Improve your self-confidence and self-worth
• Help you cope with traumas
• Encourage you to change or avoid unhealthy lifestyle habits

More on how to make new couple friends in the middle of marriage…

But we’re challenging you to do more… to also kick it up a notch in 2017!

Invest in your marriage relationship every week.

We have 30 weekly, mid-marriage encouragement challenges already planned, (that takes us to September, if you’re counting), with more in the works. Each weekly challenge will have supporting posts and documents to go with the video,

You might not be ready to do all four challenges in the month – but that’s the nice part… you have a plan…  a place to start.

Start what?

Start encouraging each other to lead a meaningful life as husband and wife!

These challenges are an answer to your question,

“Is this all there is?”

when you look at your marriage and your life together as husband & wife…

Make New Connections

Go ahead – reach out. Break out of your routine and make your marriage relationship more…

 Want more information about the book we referenced?

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