Making Each Other Happy

I have learned in marriage that if you make the other person happy, they will make you happy.  Let me give you one example of this.  For our one month anniversary, I decided to make Travis a nice manly dinner of meat and potatoes.  For those of you that know me well know that cooking isn't my favorite thing to do, but I did it because I knew that it would make Travis happy.  The roast didn't come out quite like I wanted, but Travis was just as happy anyway.

As a result of me making him happy, he made me happy.  That morning I went and picked up a coffee table and bookcase that we had ordered.  After dinner he suggested we put them together before we went to bed instead of waiting until the next day.  I was excited because we were having our first visitors the next day and I wanted to have it done before they came.  We stayed up late putting it together and hanging my mirror.  Travis had to work the next morning, but he did it to make me happy.  We both made sacrifices to make the other happy.  

On that same note, Travis has made me happy by allowing me to set up and change around his apartment.  We are doing one room at a time.  So far we have almost finished the living room.  He always goes with me to pick things out and is patient as I ask him to move the furniture around.

I didn't take a before picture, but here is a picture of it from when we first bought the couch back in October.  The tv was in the corner across from him, but that was all that he had in the room.

Here is what it looks like now.   

Slowly but surely I will make his apartment more "womanized," as Nathan says.