Recently my husband and I got to see and hear James Mattis speak at USU. There were so many powerful insights and comments that he made. Several really touched me and gave me a deeper insight into marriage, I would like to share two insights I gained from this event. First, the world did not have to be perfect to fight for it and second he talked about while in boot camp it was unacceptable to give 90%, always give 100%.
With his comment about the world not being perfect for us to fight for it, I was inclined to think how often we see couples give up on marriage because it is not ‘perfect’. But when Mattis talks about WW1 and WW2 he shares that many people gave up their lives not because it was already perfect but because of the potential it had to become better. We need to fight for our marriage because as we do so we are showing our spouse, our kids, and the world that we believe in our marriage and we believe in its potential.
The second comment on 100% is the only acceptable effort. When it comes to marriage, giving anything less than 100%, even if it is 99%, we are allowing 1% to diminish the value of the 99%. We are telling everyone around us that our marriage is not worth giving our all. Let us give our all to our marriage because as we do so, we are keeping doubts of our commitment out of our mind but also out of the mind of our spouse.
Both of these insights I gained from hearing James Mattis go hand in hand. Fight for your imperfect marriage and fight for it with all you have.
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