By Joleen Watson of Imagine Hope Counseling.

Think back to your wedding day, or perhaps the beginning of your relationship. If you were to take a snapshot of your relationship from that time, what kind of picture frame would you put it in? A shiny, ornamental frame that is beautiful, or an old, scratched up frame with broken glass?

Chances are, most of us would put the photos from our happiest memories in a nice frame.

Picture frames are also a useful analogy for how we view different aspects of our relationships, as well as the qualities in our partner. As changes take place in life and relationships, we often allow our view of our spouse or significant other to change, too.

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