Carrying Together

Marriage wasn't designed for one person to carry everything while the other watches. Paul speaks of carrying burdens — and in marriage that's literal. Worries about the kids, the anxieties of work, the insecurities you don't tell anyone else about. When your spouse is carrying a weight, do you feel it? When you're carrying one, does he notice? There's a closeness that's built when both of you learn to notice each other. It's not about keeping score of who does more or carries more. It's the awareness that you're a team — and a team works when each person looks at the other, not just at their own load. Ask him today how he's really doing. And let him ask you the same.