The health of your marriage is important.

The health of your marriage is just as important.

Happily married parents are vital to the best growth and development of their children. Loving, happily married parents are the foundation upon which love, joy and peace foster the most desirable environment for the children. Children thrive well and excel in such an environment.
With love, plans for the future of our precious children are constantly worked at delightfully. Have you noticed how tiredness disappears when love appears? So, there can be no neglect, there can be no slack and there can be no loss of interest when there is love.

However, love does diminish with time if there is no mutual care and concern. This is one pothole all parents must learn to avoid or overcome. To overcome it, we just have to water and manure the plant of love regularly. Remember how when we care for somebody, that person’s little weaknesses are acceptable and of no consequence. In the same manner, it is when small weaknesses become unacceptable that love walks out of the heart. And if we examine all those quarrels with our beloved, we will be surprised at how small the problems were; problems which should not have caused any rift in the family. Most of the problems needed merely some understanding and love to overcome them.

However, should there be a break in any marriage relationship, we can expect some sadness, violence and havoc which may sweep aside all thoughts of success for the children. How long this kind of storm has to be endured by the children and subsequently the type of damage to the children depends upon the intensity and period of the storm.

In such circumstances, where storms erupt often, can there still be a head start to success for the children? Where is the love? And where there is no love, can there be joy? Without love and joy, where is there the peaceful environment essential for growth and development of your children? Therefore, such a pothole must be avoided at all cost!