I've been married for a long time

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This evening I was out cutting the grass and there was loud thunder not too far off. I decided to hurry up and finish before it started to rain.

It was at that moment that I realized I was less afraid of being killed by lightning and facing my final judgement than I was of being killed and facing my wife’s anger for stupidly staying outside, even though I’d be dead.
 
“Marriages are made in heaven, but must be assembled here on earth.”
 
They way things have been going, I am certain that I am going to drop dead on the wrong day of the week.
 
Well I hope you immediately went out to the shops to get more chocolate …😆
 
🤣 … thanks for that

No mans’ cave/shed?

Oh, dear … you poor soul …
 
Well I have heard we can ask God to allow us to serve our purgatory here on earth …

Marriage is also about helping ones’ spouse reach heaven.

I would have to agree - marriage can be a type of martyrdom. In fact, at Mass today (EF) Fathers homily was on marriage. 😃 Actually it was very good, though a bit long or perhaps it was just my wandering concentration at fault.
 
Things were awesome before you get married. Things change after you get married and the classic response “oh you have to work on it”. Don’t want to work on it and didn’t have to before marriage!
 
So true. Purifies us from our own wills … and can be offered up as penance as you say.

All relationships can potentially have this component in addition to marriage.

Such a blessing to be inspired to pray not just for our spouse and families, but all others, and not just those who cross our path in life.
 
Apologies ewohdrol, I was on my phone and between phone calls (I have a sister in hospital awaiting open heart surgery tomorrow) and text messages from family, all of which kept interrupting my typed reply being saved and posted - in one attempt to do so, my tapping the screen over my unsaved reply resulted in my “liking” your post!

So the below is what for the past hour I’ve been trying to post! -

I would think that would be determined by the personalities of the parties followed by external circumstances. Some marriages are happier than others, but all have their difficulties. Some major, but most daily irritations are minor. Thank God for the graces received from the sacrment of matrimony which help the parties through various difficulties.
 
It’s not hard and depressing for everyone.

It’s not Prince Charming and Princess Birds-dress-me-in-the-morning, but it shouldn’t always be hard and depressing.
 
The first twenty five years of marriage are the hardest - then it gets harder!

Marriage does not have to be depressing, but it is always work in progress.
 
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