POS or Porsche #1
The Difference That Make All the Difference
Marriage and cars are a funny combo. Who would have ever thought that cars and marriage could teach us about each other. I have never owned a Porsche, but I have had a few POS. I am one of the blessed ones that has had a Porsche of a marriage, but not a POS.
When you think about cars, you think about maybe a difference between a classic and a car you are enduring. The difference between the two, cars I mean, can give us a clue as to how we view our marriages. So, if we treat a car like a POS that is what it will become eventually. So, what if we treated our marriage like a Porsche? I want to look at the difference between the two views of our marriages and cars.
Let’s take a minute to compare both sides of the cars, (Marriage).
You wash and wax a Porsche but hope for rain with a POS
You understand that the more something means to you, the more you take care of it. I wonder how many affairs happen in the first few years of a marriage. I’m guessing not that many. When we have a fancy new car, we take care of it and wash and wax it every chance we get. Sound familiar to like how we all start our marriages? The problem is that we get comfortable and then trouble starts. When we have a view that it will take care of itself is when the car and marriage run into trouble.
Park in the garage or wherever
When we are really attached to a car we park it in the garage. You know, out of the weather, safe from harm and where you can watch over the car. It is all about protecting what we value most. So, we look after our marriage and do whatever it takes to care for it and guard against those nighttime dangers. If we look at our marriage in the wrong way then we just park it on the street and hope our insurance covers the damage.
Maintained or Comfortable with the Knocks
When our cars, and marriage, are new we make sure the oil is changed, we keep up with the suggested maintenance. But, over time the oil change can wait until we get around to it and those tires will make it for another six months. We just have to decide that we want this car to last, so we take care of it and keep the maintenance up to date.
Full Coverage Insurance or PLPD is Enough
We all must decide how much we value a car or marriage. Insurance comes into play when something bad happens. So…how much do you value your marriage? Will you put everything into it or just the bare minimum. After all, the value is found in how we view our marriage. What is that relationship worth to you?
No Drinks Allowed or Throw that Bottle in the Back
When cars are new, or we don’t have kids, we really try to keep the car clean. But then it happens. You do not clean the car out when you get home. There is a bottle here and a bottle there. We do not do the little things to keep the car clean. Funny, we do the same thing with our marriages at times. We eventually fall into a pattern of just getting by.
We all start with a Porsche and if we do not watch it we can end up with a POS. I believe that you can keep that Porsche pristine if you put a little work into it. So the next weeks we will look at how you keep it a classic. After all nobody wants to drive “That Car” down the road. We want to have the car that everyone stops to admire and would love to have. That is the idea behind the next weeks. To help us all have a marriage that others would love to have. Check back in the next weeks to figure out this whole car and marriage thing.