Leaving and Cleaving

This was a great read today. Leaving and Cleaving. When you are younger the leaving involves family and creating a new family with your husband. However, when you are older it also involves friends and family. I needed to break the ties with friends, family and work to ensure my relationship with my husband is the highest held relationship in my earthly world. He is the most important part of my life given to me by God. Robb and I became one life and together with God on our side we will be one. I will cleave to him and he to me. Some don't understand that leaving doesn't mean I'm never going to talk to you again. It means that I'll listen and understand but ultimately if it affects my life with my husband then I may not be able to do it like I used to. For instance, going out with just the girls. I will go to hang with the girls at someones house, baking Christmas cookies or watching a chick flick, however, I won't go bar hopping and dancing into the wee hours of the night. That would be disrespectful to my husband. I know some will say that's boring but my life with Robb is anything but boring. I love him and the commitment we made together. It worth giving up everything I used to be to be with him forever! Are you prepared to leave your old life behind? Changing how you interact with others to ensure your marriage is one, first and foremost in your mind always?