I pulled into my driveway not long ago from dropping my kids off at school and I spotted a big black crow eating French fries that had been dropped there the day before.  Knowing what I know about crows, my immediate thought was, where is the mate?  Seconds later the second one showed up on queue and started helping out. I learned years ago that crows are monogamous and stay paired for life. Apparently they’re not aware of any other options but to stay together and work through they’re problems and differences.

The most recent American statistic on divorce is one out of every two marriages and increasing fast.  I’ve observed over the years that we tend to be willing to spend so much time and money on the wedding, but so little time and money on maintaining the marriage.  Who would’ve thought that crow’s could give good marriage advice?  Maybe we can learn a bit from their “never-say-die” or “never-say-divorce” commitment and way of life in terms of marriage.

I challenge you to leverage your stubbornness and use it to stay in that marriage.  Stick around and invest your time and money in an attempt to work it out.  Can we do it is an easy question to answer “Yes” to, but Will we do it is much more difficult to answer with a “Yes”.  No need to answer out loud or raise your hand, just hear and understand and make your plan if you can.

Marriage advice from a couple of crow’s.  Hmmmm.

Let’s continue to Make it Great.