Loyalty

One thing that my parents have always taught me through their example is what loyalty is. They have lived their marriage with complete fidelity and this is a key aspect for why it has survived. It is so easy to find story after story of marriages falling apart because one or both were not faithful. I think this is a deep fear that I have had and if I am being honest it holds me back sometimes as I date. This fear doesn't come from my parents but perhaps from the countless stories of marriages failing. I hear these stories and it makes me want to sometimes give up on the idea of marriage.

I then look at marriages like my grandparents, my aunts and uncles, my bishopric, my siblings, and my own sweet parents. Loyalty and love is laced throughout their marriages and this brings me hope. Fidelity in these marriages mean that they not only are faithful on the outside to each other but they are faithful  with their whole hearts. This means that they do not think of others or even look at others because their spouses are number one in their eyes.

Marriage can be beautiful and wonderful and I know that I have examples from my own personal support system to help me know that marriage can survive and last.