This Divorced Man Wrote Some Beautiful Marriage Advice Every Man Should Read.

A newly-divorced man revealed on Facebook the advice he wished he’d known before tying the knot. Gerald Rogers, who works as a motivational speaker in Utah, wrote down 20 tips for men on how to save a marriage. Here’s the text in full.

“Obviously, I’m not a relationship expert. But there’s something about my divorce being finalized this week that gives me perspective of things I wish I would have done different… After losing a woman that I loved, and a marriage of almost 16 years, here’s the advice I wish I would have had” :

1. NEVER STOP COURTING. NEVER STOP DATING.

NEVER EVER take that woman for granted. When you asked her to marry you, you promised to be that man that would OWN HER HEART and to fiercely protect it. This is the most important and sacred treasure you will ever be entrusted with. SHE CHOSE YOU. Never forget that, and NEVER GET LAZY in your love.

2. PROTECT YOUR OWN HEART.

Just as you committed to being the protector of her heart, you must guard your own with the same vigilance. Love yourself fully, love the world openly, but there is a special place in your heart where no one must enter except for your wife. Keep that space always ready to receive her and invite her in, and refuse to let anyone or anything else enter there.

3. FALL IN LOVE OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN.

You will constantly change. You’re not the same people you were when you got married, and in five years you will not be the same person you are today. Change will come, and in that you have to re-choose each other everyday. SHE DOESN’T HAVE TO STAY WITH YOU, and if you don’t take care of her heart, she may give that heart to someone else or seal you out completely, and you may never be able to get it back. Always fight to win her love just as you did when you were courting her.

4. ALWAYS SEE THE BEST IN HER.

Focus only on what you love. What you focus on will expand. If you focus on what bugs you, all you will see is reasons to be bugged. If you focus on what you love, you can’t help but be consumed by love. Focus to the point where you can no longer see anything but love, and you know without a doubt that you are the luckiest man on earth to be have this woman as your wife.

5. IT’S NOT YOUR JOB TO CHANGE OR FIX HER.

Your job is to love her as she is with no expectation of her ever changing. And if she changes, love what she becomes, whether it’s what you wanted or not.

6. TAKE FULL ACCOUNTABILITY.

Take full accountability for your own emotions. It’s not your wife’s job to make you happy, and she CAN’T make you sad. You are responsible for finding your own happiness, and through that your joy will spill over into your relationship and your love.

A Man Decided To Follow His Little Boy On His Daily Walk. What He Saw Shattered My Heart.

Every day for two solid weeks, this man’s son would take a walk. They live in the rural Philippines, and since the father was curious as to what he was doing, one day he decided to tag along. What he found was both heartwarming and heartbreaking.

It turns out his son was taking those trips for the past two weeks to feed some stray dogs he met.

The puppies were starving and seemingly infected with mange.

25 Amazing Pictures Of Wild Animals And Their Babies

Animals can prove that parents love their kids more than everything. The following picture are really sweet because they show that the meaning of family union exists in the animal world as well.

According to ecologists, animal parenting is separated in two categories, the R and the K. Category R animals tend to have many offspring all at the same time who reach maturity faster. While K category animals tend to have fewer offspring that take longer to reach adulthood. Their young need more love and care, the kind of child rearing that we’re used to as humans (we’re also category K animals).

As you might remember from this article about unknown facts about animals, animals can feel love and empathy like humans do. The following photos can prove it:

Sensitive People

“Sensitive people are the most genuine and honest people you will ever meet. There is nothing they won’t tell you about themselves if they trust your kindness. However, the moment you betray them, reject them or devalue them, they will end the friendship. They live with guilt and constant pain over unresolved situations and misunderstandings. They are tortured souls that are not able to live with hatred or being hated. This type of person needs the most love anyone can give them because their soul has been constantly bruised by others. However, despite the tragedy of what they have to go through in life, they remain the most compassionate people worth knowing and the ones that often become activists for the broken-hearted, forgotten and the misunderstood. They are angels with broken wings that only fly when loved.” ― Shannon L. Alder

Sometimes your silent presence is more powerful

When someone is going through a storm, your silent presence is more powerful than a million, empty words.

When things are bad and there is no hope, just knowing that people are there for you helps.

Once In Your Life Someone Will Hurt You

No matter what, once in your life, someone will hurt you. That someone will take all that you are, and rip it into pieces and they won't even watch where the pieces land. But through the breakdown, you'll learn something about yourself. You'll learn that you're strong. And no matter how hard they destroy you, that you can conquer anyone.

You can rebuild yourself. Broken hearts can heal. Some people are cruel. It doesn’t mean we have to let them stop us. I’ve never stopped living, I just keep on moving forward. Keep loving! ~ Daniel Rodriguez

6 Signs Your Partner Thinks You're An Option, NOT A Priority

Most plans are spur of the moment.

Your phone buzzes. It's 11pm on a Friday night. You're about to turn in after a quiet evening at home with a book. "Want 2 hang out?" This is code for something, and you know exactly what it is. "I couldn't find anyone else so now I'm talking to you, Ms. Last Resort." Pass.

They don't take you to bigger events.

You know you're an option and not really a priority when they don't want to take you out in public to bigger events like parties, weddings, or birthdays. You're a side thing, not the real deal.

They frequently bail on you.

Their plans are spur of the moment, and while they might agree to do something you want to at a future date, they often bail on you. This probably means that they found someone or something better to occupy their time.

Eight Ways To Rebuilding Your Life

1. Love yourself, unconditionally.

2. Release your bottled up emotions.

3. Make time for long walks, alone.

4. Avoid living beyond your means.

5. Nurture your inner strength.

6. Stop apologizing for being you.

7. Surround yourself with positive people.

8. Embrace your situation, whatever it may be.

Nobody Knows The Real Me

Nobody knows the real me. Nobody knows how many times I've sat in my room and cried, how many times I've lost hope, how many times I've been let down. Nobody knows how many times I've had to hold back to tears, how many times I've felt like I'm about to snap but don't just for the sake of others. Nobody knows the thoughts that have gone through my head whenever I'm sad, and how horrible they really are.

I didn’t lose you

I didn’t lose you, you lost me. You’ll search for me inside of everyone you’re with and I won’t be found.

Beautiful Love Story

A guy met a girl online, and gradually began to chat to each other regularly and became good friends.

After a few months, they expressed their love for each other. They were happily in love for a few weeks, until one day suddenly the girl stopped responding to the guys messages. He waited and waited ..

Weeks passed, and he still sat by his internet awaiting her message, but nothing..

He was scared something had happened to her, his heart felt like it did but eventually he accepted the fact that their relationship was over. He was heartbroken .. He cried himself to sleep everyday reading her old love messages.

After a few years, he had just started university. After all this years, he stayed away from girls because he couldn't stand the heartbreak, but one girl took his fancy.

A beautiful women, it was weird as he never even looked at girls before, but there was something special about her. So he approached her, but was rejected instantly.

Boy: I'm sorry, if I offended you by saying I liked you.

How you will get the right woman?

A boy asked his mom: "How will I be able to find the right woman for me?" The mom answered: "Don't worry about finding the right woman, concentrate on becoming the right man."

To all us raising young men, single ladies if you complain you can’t find a good Man, remember it’s also our jobs to raise one. ~ Addie Kitchell

Why a Brother is so special

Your brother is always the first male friend you will have in your life. Nobody will ever be able to understand your craziness like your brother and although you don't see each other as much as you'd like, he will always remain your friend and be there for you when you need him the most. While people will come and go in your life, your brother will be in your heart fora lifetime. If you have a brother that you love with all your heart, SHARE this on your wall. 

If someone comes into your life

If someone comes into your life and has a positive impact on you, but for some reason they can’t stay, be thankful that your paths crossed and that they somehow made you happy, even if it was just for a short while. Life is change. People really do come and go. Some come back, some don’t, and that’s okay. And just because one person leaves, doesn’t mean you should forget about everyone else who’s still standing by your side. Continue to appreciate what you have, and smile about the memories.

25 Awesome Tips For Beautiful Life.

25 Awesome Tips For Beautiful Life.

1. Take a 10-30 minute walk every day. & while you walk, SMILE. It is the ultimate antidepressant.

2. Sit in silence for at least 10 minutes each day.

3. When you wake up in the morning, Pray to ask God’s guidance for your purpose, today.

4. Eat more foods that grow on trees and plants and eat less food that is manufactured in plants.

5. Drink green tea and plenty of water. Eat blueberries, broccoli, and almonds.

6. Try to make at least three people smile each day.

7. Don’t waste your precious energy on gossip, energy vampires, issues of the past, negative thoughts or things you cannot control. Instead invest your energy in the positive present moment.

When Trust Is Broken

I find that sorry has an arbitrary meaning anymore. People say it so often in life that when you mean it, it’s hard to differentiate when it’s real. If you bump into someone, you arbitrarily say, I’m sorry or drop a coin as your handing back change, “I’m sorry” but when itcounts you say it and how is one to differentiate what’s true and what’s arbitrary? No one means to do what they do and if they do, why should u be “sorry” especially if there’s intent. So don’t be “sorry”. Live with intent, check to see that they’re ok when you bump into them, pick up the coin and say “there you go”! Stop being overly polite. ~ Michael Bonacci

Sorry works when a mistake is made, but not when trust is broken. So in life, make mistakes but never break trust. Because forgiving is easy, but forgetting and trusting again is sometimes impossible.

The Last Person You Think Of At Night

It all comes down to the last person you think of at night. That's where your heart is.

The last person I think of at night is God and the first person I think of is also God. When I wake up in the morning, I think He is the one who keeps me going. It seems so peaceful to place my heart there. ~ Usha Venkatramani

A Note From a Mother

A note from a mother. I gave birth to you, but you came with no instructions All I knew was that I loved you long before I saw you. I know I made some mistakes and for that, I am sorry, but I was doing the best I could with what I knew. Everything I did for you, I did from love. You are my child, my life, my dreams for tomorrow. I will always LOVE you and there is nothing that could ever destroy my love for you.

A mother’s love is unconditional and father God always answer her prayers, so to all the moms out there embrace your children tell them you love them each and every day, kids are truly a blessing from God. ~ Karen Walker

Cutting Some People Out Of Your Life

You can love someone and forgive them a 1000 times over, but cutting them out of your daily life does not mean hate, you can still love them and forgive, but one must move on sometimes. ~ Joyce Marles

Cutting people out of your life doesn't mean you hate them, it simply means you respect yourself. Not everyone is meant to stay.

Sometimes the ones who you love the most are the ones that hurt you the most and are the ones most toxic for you to live connected to. It’s like cutting the umbilical cord. You cut that cord, you are not attached and you have to so you can grow and breath and live with positive because sometimes people just can stay connected in a way that they keep feeding from you in a negative way and or physically and mentally abuse way. Draining you of everything from the inside out. You are the keeper of your own being, you need to make positive choices for you. ~ Lynn DaSilva

If You Want To Know Someone’s Mind

Someone that says, “I love you” and continues to be disrespectful, or worse, is saying more with their actions than their words.

If you want to know someone's mind, listen to their words. If you want to know their heart, watch their actions.