How to Begin to Fight For Your Marriage
If your marriage is in serious trouble, you need to begin by making a strong commitment of the will to undertake the following experiment. You risk further pain and rejection, but you also stand to regain a healthy and fulfilling marriage. Count the cost: it’s worth the attempt.
Total Useful Life of the Wright Flyer
1 Day, 4 Flights, 1,347 Feet
It never flew again.
Ask how you can be a better spouse, and regardless of the other’s attitude, act on what he or she tells you. Continue to both seek more input and comply with those wishes with all your heart and will. Assure your spouse that your motives are pure.
When you receive positive feedback you know there is progress. Each month make one non-threatening but specific request that is easy for your spouse. Make sure it relates to your primary love language and will help replenish your empty tank.
When your spouse responds and meets your need, you will be able to react with not only your will but your emotions as well. Without overreacting, continue positive feedback and affirmation of your spouse at these times.
As your marriage begins to truly heal and grow deeper, make sure you don’t “rest on your laurels” and forget your spouse’s love language and daily needs. You’re on the road to your dreams, so stay there! Put appointments into your schedule to assess together how you’re doing.
The Final Flight of the Wright Flyer – Distant view of the Wright Flyer just after landing, taken from the starting point, with wing-rest in center of picture and launching rail at right.
Taking turns, the Wrights made four brief, low-altitude flights on that one and only day that the Wright Flyer ever took to the sky. The flight paths were all essentially straight; turns were not attempted. Each flight ended in a bumpy and unintended “landing.”
The last flight, by Wilbur, was 852 feet in 59 seconds, much longer than each of the three previous flights of 120, 175 and 200 feet. The landing broke the front elevator supports, which the Wrights hoped to repair for a possible four-mile flight to Kitty Hawk village.
Soon after, a heavy gust picked up the Wright Flyer and tumbled it end over end, damaging it beyond any hope of a quick repair. It was never flown again.
Yet, that one day inspired the world. 66 years later, when the first spacecraft landed on the moon, it carried onboard a piece of the Wright Flyer.
Fight for your marriage! You may inspire the world around you.
