Jordan and I have an exceedingly strong marriage. We are nearly always in tune and rarely, if ever, bicker. While I’d like to say that we simply have excellent chemistry, that isn’t necessarily the case. All marriages take work.
But we have discovered a principle that allows us to shift our perspective from merely cultivating our emotional connection toward something else entirely: we build things together.
We build,
which is to say that
we seek to undertake tasks
with the express purpose
of achieving a tangible result.
We work together. We set goals and reach for them. Large or small, they engage our individual faculties, outside of daily tasks, in ways that compliment each other. We move our relationship from the space of raising a family together to the most basic level of team building.
Because we’re a team.
And the best teams continually work toward strengthening not only their friendship and mutual affection, but also their working relationship.
How do you and your husband work on building your “team?”
Introducing our guest blogger today,Jessica Heights…
Jessica is a passionately Christian, blissfully wed, full-time homemaker and mother of four. She is the author and founder of Muthering Heights and Other Senseless Sensibility, in which she grows alongside and encourages women as they blossom as mothers, wives, seekers of truth and conduits of grace.
She is also a co-host of Relevant and a contributing writer to Raising Homemakers, and Christmas Change.
