Concentrate on your own happiness
October 27th 2009 12:37
“You can either hold yourself up to the unrealistic standards of others, or ignore them and concentrate on being happy with yourself as you are.”
-Jeph Jacques
Remember this quote when you're pressured by others to be a couple you're not.
Remember this quote when you feel like you have to measure up to other couples.
Remember this quote when you feel like you have to keep up with the Joneses.
Remember this quote when you feel you're losing your sense of identity as a couple.
Remember this quote when you feel your couple life is being led by schedules and routine.
Some people will be nosy, asking you why you don't have kids yet when you don't want any yet. Some people will be prying, asking you why you have three kids already when you're just three years into the marriage. Some will ask why you're still renting an apartment when you should invest in your own house. Others will ask why the husband is a "houseband" and why the woman is the breadwinner. And so on and so forth.
Don't be bothered by others' expectations. Focus on your own happiness as a couple, and you'll coast through all the standards and expectations others set upon you.
Best of all, do it together. For as long as the two of you are happy together, all will be fine. It's your marriage, not others'.
-Jeph Jacques
Image by Gregory Bastien
Remember this quote when you're pressured by others to be a couple you're not.
Remember this quote when you feel like you have to measure up to other couples.
Remember this quote when you feel like you have to keep up with the Joneses.
Remember this quote when you feel you're losing your sense of identity as a couple.
Remember this quote when you feel your couple life is being led by schedules and routine.
Some people will be nosy, asking you why you don't have kids yet when you don't want any yet. Some people will be prying, asking you why you have three kids already when you're just three years into the marriage. Some will ask why you're still renting an apartment when you should invest in your own house. Others will ask why the husband is a "houseband" and why the woman is the breadwinner. And so on and so forth.
Don't be bothered by others' expectations. Focus on your own happiness as a couple, and you'll coast through all the standards and expectations others set upon you.
Best of all, do it together. For as long as the two of you are happy together, all will be fine. It's your marriage, not others'.
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Comment by Bea Santiago-Hernandez
We went through a lot of these incidents as a couple - during wedding planning - and am sure we will go through more this year.
We've made quite a few decisions independently and many of my relatives are nitpicking them. (my family is very pinoy. usisero silang lahat. hehe
pero, i'll be honest, sometimes, its me that presures myself to "live up" to the so called standards of tohers... i have to learn pa to fully let go