The Golden Rule

One way to figure out how to prepare for your future with your spouse is to train yourself on the people around you. The best people to do that with is your family but you can practice on your friends as well. This is great practice to learn forgiveness, humility, love, and serve those around you. Why not practice now? I have a hard time sometimes practicing any of this on my family but I know in the long run the way that I treat them will be the way that I treat my future husband and family. I was actually watching “So You Think You Can Dance?” tonight and I was closely watching Robert on the show. Now, I know he’s good looking and everything but that is not why I was watching him. I was observing his behavior with the women that are around him. He is very sweet, protective, caring, loyal, and among many other things with them. What’s funny? He is not related to any of them. But, when you look at the way he treats his mom, he treats her with the same respect as he does the other girls in his life. Just guess where he learned to treat those girls around him? That’s right. The way he treats his mom. He will be a great husband someday. Now, what kind of spouse do you want to be? Do you want to be the caring spouse that when you are away from your wife or husband that all they can talk about with the people around them is how amazing you are? Or do you want to be the spouse where all of your spouse’s friends are telling to leave? I know which one I want to be. So, I am going to start now on treating those around me with respect that they may not deserve but I will give them because I know that when I meet my future husband, I want to respect those around me the way that I pray my future husband will repect me, without him in the room.  I want to become a better person because of him.