BEYOND MARRIAGE CERTIFICATE

We had just ended our honeymoon and my wife was returning to school. I watched as she packed and I noticed her trying to find a safe place to keep our marriage certificate within her travelling box.

I smiled at her action and I asked "why are you taking the certificate along with you?" She replied "the certificate it's mine to keep, the officiating priest even handed it over to me".

She may be right, but what I told her next made her realised that we may not be needing the certificate except for official purposes.

"Why are you making efforts to keep the certificate instead of to keep me?" I asked. The question was like a thunderbolt to her. It sure made her to reappraise and readjust immediately. Needless telling you that her focus changed, because I became the center of her policy since then.

My last question goes to so many of us here. We spend efforts trying to protect what we may not be needing in our marriage. Spend all your time in trying to keep yourselves as one family and believe me, you will be happily married.

Certificate is for the event.

Marriage transcends beyond certificate.