The best way to describe it is to say that Spouse and I are in love. We are crazy about each other. We've lived a lifetime of building a good marriage.But there are times when we disagree. Not argue - we don't participate in that activity much anymore. But we just plain and simple do not agree on a specific topic. Be it the children, the climate, the animals, or something else, we come at it from different perspectives and make dissimilar deductions.
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So, when we drop on two different sides of an issue - him on one side and me on the other - what do we do?
Our first line of defense is to pray. We just bring up the subject to the Lord and ask Him to show us His wisdom in this area. For him to bring us together on it, or give us the kindness to live together with different views. We have learned that we won't agree on everything, but we do want to agree on the major things: God, child-raising, monogamy. The basics of life.
From the very earliest days of our marriage, we were made aware of our extreme oppositeness in circadian rhythms. I am an early, early bird. Not just waking up when the sun rises over the hills. But, even before the birds arise, I'm up and about. Spouse, on the other hand, is the proverbial night owl. He starts slow in the morning, then gains speed all day, making it hard to stop at night. The early morning hours might find him just winding his way up the stairs to our bed, and me popping up all bright-eyed and bushy-tailed ready for a new day. Sometimes I think we only need a twin bed, because of our opposite sleeping shifts.
Mark & Kym Wright have eight children and live in Michigan, but call the South home.
