What I Learned in Marriage-6

Beware of Nostalgia-I think it appropriate to follow the encouragement to “only remember the good” with this warning. While we definitely should strive to only remember (or think about) good things/times, we need to be careful what place we give those memories and thoughts. They should serve to encourage us, in good and bad, to remind us that times aren’t always hard, to remember a person’s qualities when you are faced with their faults. The danger is when those memories become something that we strive for in themselves, when we try to regain that fond time or happy feeling.