I've decided to interview my parents, who have been married together for 25 years. Our conversation about this topic was fast, but I understood everything they were telling me.
The challenges my parents had are:
1. When they lost their family members ( their fathers and mothers ). This was resolved by providing patience, understanding, and allowing each other to work together or individually with this situation.
2. I think the most challenging challenge for both my parents is raising their children
( my sister and I ) while having busy work schedules. They managed to resolve this by having one parent working around the other, allowing at least one parent to be with either my sister or me each day. But, we both enjoy having the house to ourselves when both our parents have to work on the same day.
The only new challenge my parents are trying to struggle with is impending retirement for one of them, especially for my dad, so that I can go exploring the whole world with him.
I asked my parents on how to make things work when it comes to marriage, and the advice they gave me for a successful healthy marriage is to have commitment, patience, and forgiveness between you and your loved one. Another advice my mother gave me was:
"Don't get married until both people are willing to work together at their marriage."
Now that I know all I need for marriage, I hope to have a good and memorable marriage as my parents, and my grandparents, did before me.
