Edwin & Shun Strickland

Happily married couples learn to value differences. Often the very thing that your spouse does differently, is something you need to make you better.

People often think that marriage must be a battle of whose dream matters most. Couples argue because one person wants to go left and the other wants to go right.

My wife wanted to buy a business. I wanted to buy real estate. So, instead of arguing, competing, or forcing one person to sacrifice their vision… we made a decision.

WHY NOT BUILD BOTH? 💪🏾🔥💯

So that’s exactly what we did. We didn’t fight. We didn’t compete and we didn’t tear down each other’s dreams. We simply chose to support each other and build TOGETHER. No jealousy. No ego’s. No “either/or” mentality. Just two people believing in each other enough to say, “If it matters to you, then it matters to me.”

That’s real partnership. That’s real kingdom marriage and that’s what happens when unity becomes stronger than pride. Contrary to popular modern day opinion, marriage isn’t always about choosing one dream over another. God can easily give you the grace to build multiple visions “at the same time.”

Now we’re building businesses, buying property, creating legacy, and proving that when the right people come together, you don’t have to shrink one dream to make room for another. Support matters. Alignment matters. Unity matters. And when two people stop trying to “win” against each other and start building with each other everybody wins. Because in the famous words of Jay-Z “we all lose when the family feuds.”