Russ and Maria’s love story has opened my eyes to a new perspective of relationships in my own life. My parents believe that faith, love, respect and communication are the key components to having a successful marriage. Listening to them tell their story from the beginning, I can see how their love has grown and changed over the years from just being infatuated with one another when they first met to now being full on compassionate for one another. For me, understanding how love evolves over time has helped me better understand the different aspects that come into play.
Love is a special gift from God that brings many joys to our lives, but there will be difficult times. While facing those difficult times with your partner, you’ll end up coming out stronger, closer, and more in love. As long as we cherish the love God has created for us, we’ll find the faith, respect and communication to share with another person. At first, the couple can spend all the time in the world obsessing over each other but eventually they will start a family. With that family, come greater responsibilities and possibilities for error and arguments. However, I feel that through my parents having my older brother, younger sister, and I, they were able to connect their love in a different way.
Nowadays, the relationships shown on television and the movies have a completely different outlook on the significance of marriage. Many couples are divorced, one may be an alcoholic or in jail, they may not show respect towards one another, or many times the children seem to run the family and make the decisions. For example, the reality TV show, The Kardashians. The parents are now separated/divorced living in separate houses. My personal outlook is that they did not try hard enough to fix their problems. I feel if they have a love connection there is a way to solve the issues. I know my parents have fights break out here and there but they’re willing and able to put it past them and continue to grow in love.
Another media misconception of marriage is the TV show Pretty Little Liars where one of the parents has an affair. To me, this is not the kind of example the media should be setting for us. It concerns me that they think it’s appropriate to depict marriage and love as such an ordinary “who cares” kind of object that can get thrown around here and there. However, there are shows that perceive love as a genuine gift except they’re reruns such as The Cosby’s and Full House. In these shows, the adults show love and respect towards one another as well as to their children they are raising. For a relationship between two people to last, the underling bond of respect and communication is most definitely needed in order to have success.
Thinking back to my interview with my parents, I believe the song that best model’s their love story is their wedding song, I Believe in You and Me. Whitney Houston sings, “I believe that love will never end / And like the river finds the sea / I was lost now I’m free.” Together, my parents created the love bond over the past twenty-five years they’ve been together. They taught each other how to love and opened each other’s eyes to new meanings in life. Houston also sings, “ I will never leave your side / I will never hurt your pride.” These lyrics express how they have respect for each other, how they think before they speak and how they’ll always stick together. And lastly the phrase, “I believe in you and me’” applies to their everyday lifestyle and how they know tough times may come and go between them but they both agree that the love they share for one another will come out ahead of all else.
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