I Promise

I PROMISE

I promise from this day forward,
To always be as open with you as you are with me.
I promise to always consider your feelings,
As you consider mine.
I promise to make your welfare my first concern,
Just as you make mine yours;
And I promise to love and honor you,
For as long as you will love and honor me.

Please do not ask me to be obedient,
For I am not your servant.
Do not ask me to be perfect,
For I am only human;
And do not ask me to be what you think I should be,
For I am not you, and can never be.

I can only be what God has made me,
A separate personality,
And essentially different from you in every way.
I have different ideas and different ways from you.
That does not make me wrong,
Just different.
Accept me, love me, honor me,
And I will reply in kind.

                                                            Judy Ball

People often wonder what went wrong in a marriage.  
The answer is simple.
They forgot to accept each other as individuals and started thinking of each other as mere extensions of themselves.
They get angry and resentful because their mate, their "other half" can't read their mind or does not agree with everything they say or do.
They lose respect for each other as individuals with feelings of their own.
Remember:
Marriage is like a bank account. If you don't put anything into it you can't take anything out.

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James Foulk

July 3, 2011 at 10:18 AM

in a good marriage each has to give 100 percent, and put the other one first every time, lthis was a great piece and i agree with 100 percent what you have written. thank you for commenting on Bring on Summer. Those grandkids must keep you busy.

Judy Ball

July 3, 2011 at 10:56 AM

Thankyou so much James. Glad you liked this one. I don't get to see them near as often as I'd like. Wish they would all come over every day. God Bless, JB

Jancarl Campi

July 3, 2011 at 5:22 AM

Hi Judy! First thanks for your comment on my work, it was a college assignment many many years ago. I enjoyed reading "I Promise" it was a loving write. Your words were filled with a loving wisdom. My wife and I have been married for 36 years and it has been fun from day one. We are most blessed and so very lucky. May God bless you and keep you safe, Jancarl

Judy Ball

July 3, 2011 at 9:06 AM

Thank you Jancari for such a lovely review. Congratulations to you and your wife. It's important to let each otherknow how importnt you are to each other and that you are glad you are together. This July fourth will 45yrs. for us and sadly we do not have that. However when you take your vows you promise for better or for worse. Well, ours got worse. Thanks again and God Bless, JB

Andrea Dietrich

July 2, 2011 at 2:09 PM

this is a wonderful and wise lesson, judy. I always hated that line "promise to obey" in the marriage vows. Surely a man made that one up!! Your vows here are so much better!

Judy Ball

July 3, 2011 at 10:54 AM

Thank you so much Andrea. Glad you liked it. This is somethig that should be gone over before the vows are made. Don't you think? God Bless, JB