Great thought!

I just read this, and LOVED the analogy. Whether you have been married 2 weeks, 5 years, or 34 years....this is a great way to think of your marriage.

A friend at church once told me that we should always think of marriage as a room with the door closed and locked from the outside. If you think of the door as unlocked, then if a fire gets set inside, you'll be fixated on trying to get to the door and get out. But if you know the door is locked from the outside, all your energies will be focused on putting out the fire, rather than trying to escape.

The author then went on to explain that the fire IS going to come, and you want someone in that room with you who is just as determined to put out the fire. You fight together to stay together. "Co-fighters" she called it.

Love it.