Comments on: Are You Best Friends With Your Spouse?

By: Your Spouse – Your Best Friend | Marriage Moments

Your Spouse – Your Best Friend | Marriage Moments — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 16:21:39 +0000

[...] While searching the web for the best thoughts and resources on marriage enrichment, I clicked into a wonderful blog entitled Motivate Thyself authored by a young man named Eric Hamm. I read several posts and one really spoke volumes to me. It is entitled, “Are You Best Friends With Your Spouse?”* [...]

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How To Be Successful | Motivate Thyself — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 15:14:52 +0000

[...] how to love and be loved: We assume that because we have feelings, we know how to enjoy a healthy relationship, but anyone [...]

By: Eric Hamm

Eric Hamm — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 20:56:25 +0000

@Rayne: I’m glad you enjoyed it and got something useful out of it. Our lives complicate themselves with such ease, yet clearing out even just a little time can feel like a huge undertaking.

Thanks for stopping by and hope to hear more from you. Eric.

By: Rayne

Rayne — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 20:32:43 +0000

I love this post. It really makes you take a step back and realize what you have. My husband and I used to do stuff together all the time. Yet, since our daughter was born 2 years ago, we've pretty much stopped doing stuff together. We are either too tired to do anything period or one of us is taking care of the baby. I think we probably do take each other for granted; after 13 years together, it's easy to do. But I'm going to definitely try to spend more quality time with him from now on, and not let life and parenting take over so much. Rayne´s last blog post..NKOTB and a Girls’ Night Out

By: Eric Hamm

Eric Hamm — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 02:28:16 +0000

@Rosie: Wow, 7 kids! Sounds like a busy life.

Thanks for your kind words and a few tidbits about your relationship with your husband. It sounds like a wonderful story.

By: Rosie : )

Rosie : ) — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 18:53:30 +0000

You describe your wife wonderfully, with your emotions clear for us to see. My husband was my best friend for a year before we decided to go out together, and he was also my best friend during our engagement year.

Twelve years and seven kids later, we are still best friends. It is so nice to have that security of knowing each other.

Rosie : )´s last blog post..Ketchup, anyone?

By: Eric Hamm

Eric Hamm — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 13:49:29 +0000

@Patricia: “I think part of our strength is that we are not best friends. I would just like to offer up the possibility that there are many combinations which results in strength and love,…”

This is a great point and I agree that this can be the case. I’m glad that you and your husband are the ‘right’ combination.

@Avani-Mehta: “I see lot of commenters above with a more than a decade of being best friends with their partners – like angel, sean (writer dad), urban panther, patricia … would love to know what their secret is?”

I don’t think there’s any secret, just patience, love, and more patience.

@Daniel: Thanks for the great compliment!

@Evelyn Lim: Thanks. We’re still very young, but have been through our share of trials and come out stronger because of it.

@Matthew: “I sent her this link, thanks for giving us something to chat about tomorrow.”

You’ll have to let us know what conversation ensued.

@Maya: “Recently, he suggested I put away the laptop one night of the week, so we can have some together time, chatting about nothing, after the kids went to bed ….”

I’ve thought about this. I’m a lot like you, getting caught up in my work. We speak with our actions and if I can’t put my work down to spend time with my wife, what am I saying to her?

“I still need to hear your secret wrt being first on the ZenHabits comment list ”

I might turn this into a post at Up-And-Coming-Blogger, but then again, I might not.

By: Maya

Maya — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 06:42:52 +0000

I am so lucky that my husband (my friend for 8 years) is the one that says things like your wife just said. Recently, he suggested I put away the laptop one night of the week, so we can have some together time, chatting about nothing, after the kids went to bed …. and I readily agreed …
I was so glad he said what he did, since I am the kind of person that gets carried away with my work ….

Such a well written post…and congrats on being featured on NBOTW. I still need to hear your secret wrt being first on the ZenHabits comment list

Maya´s last blog post..The key to happiness and balance is right with you, just learn to use it – Part 1 of the thinkmaya framework

By: Matthew Dryden

Matthew Dryden — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 05:55:42 +0000

I was visiting from Blogging Without a Blog from Blogger Dad’s interview. This post struck a chord with me because I feel like my wife and I are best friends, but we hardly have the time for each other. It makes me really sad because I do love her dearly.

I sent her this link, thanks for giving us something to chat about tomorrow.

By: Evelyn Lim

Evelyn Lim — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 05:34:44 +0000

What a lovely picture!! It is also great to know that your best friend is your wife. There are so many stories of a lack of communication nowadays, contributing to the fall in marriages. It's not often that I get to read a success story! Congrats! Evelyn Lim´s last blog post..Soul Revelations From Past Life Memories