Influential Couples in your lives

That is such an adorable story!
Our influential couple would probably be my FHs Nana and Pepe. I never got to meet his Pepe but I've heard amazing stories about how they were the perfect couple, best friends! And my FHs dad (who is the least emotion showing, sentimental person ever!!) said one day that he is so proud of who his son has become because how he treats me and how we are best friends, he said he has never seen another couple like us other than my fiance's Nana and Pepe (not his dad's parents). They also meant the world to my fiance, they really were his favourite people ever. Everyone says since we resemble them so much as a couple it's only fitting that I have her engagement ring.

What a beautiful love story, your grandparents are definitely inspiration

My parents have been married for over 20 years so I look up to them. I also get influence and inspiration from other couples I meet in my day to day life. But most of all my fiancé and I look for inspiration from God and bible readings, which has taught us a lot about love, life and marriage. We are also currently in pre-martial classes so there are lots of newlywed couples, couples that are remarried and also couples that have been married for over 30 years so we get a lot of inspiration from the class as well.

Your grandparents sound so sweet!! I love that story!

My parents have been (and to continue) to be a great model for me! They are going over 35 years strong and are all about compromise. They did an awesome job while we were growing up of never fighting publicly, and compromising with each other on all decisions! They also work together (and always have) which is insane.

Wow! This has me in tears so beautiful! I look up to my grandparents as well they’re so sweet and humorous with each other.
My fiancé’s parents and my parents are both good influences as well which is why we decided to get married in between their anniversary dates (my parents is the weekend after and his is the weekend before ours). I also look up to a really good friend of mine who is one of my bridesmaids. Her and her husband met when we were in high school and they’ve been married 10 years already now with three children. I feel so far behind compared to them even though she’s the same age as me lol but great influencers too and they show that young couples can make it!
We’re blessed to have so many great couples to look up to!

Oh my goodness. Your grandparents sound like the cutest people ever. Beautiful story

My mom & step-dad have been together 18 years, and they choose to make each other a priority every day. They are my inspiration. I don't think you need to be together for a long time to be a great couple... for example, I love my future in-laws, but just because they've been together 27 years (my FH's whole life), they have a lot to work on with treating each other right, and with respect. I worry they sometimes take each other for granted. But, they definitely deal with all life throws at them together, and are a united front. They've been through a lot of crap and still choose to work through it together.

I told my FH, between my mom, dad and step-dad, there has been 8 marriages, so my hope is to have one. I know we can't predict the future, but I hope that we will be able to work through anything and prioritize each other.

Your grandparents sound like such a super couple! I think they are a great example.

I have TONS of examples of what not to do that surround me: my parents are divorced, my grandparents on both sides didn't really communicate and just ended up staying together because that was the thing to do, my SIL is getting separated. I have looked at these relationships and realized that I can take note of what not to do and learn from it. We always try to communicate with each other, be honest, be silly and love each other.

That's a beautiful story! Love that lasts a life time is always inspiration for me~ I do dream of growing old with my soon to be husband and hope we continue cute little things like that!

Both of our parents have been married over 30 years and they have been great role models for us! I think their relationships have shown us both things we want to strive for and maybe some things we can do better!

Now that’s a couple I aspire to be like! Also my parents and grandparents are couples we both want to be like: they aren’t super lovey in front of us but they seem to have so much fun and can handle any problem life throws at them. My brother and SIL are a relationship we are actively fighting to not be like: they argue constantly, neither of them do housework so they eat out constantly and live in a pig sty, and even their six year old daughter told me she wished they would live in separate houses and she could visit one and then the other (essentially divorced parents) before they got married!

My sister & her husband, along with their friends who are married gave me some insanely fabulous advice to my fiance & i after our enagagement along with words of encouragement and their congratulations.

I don’t necessarily have anyone that I model our relationship after but our own. We’re both young but have learned that honesty, consideration, and trust is key to everything.