Problems of Marriage 2

Inadequate Preparation

It has been estimated that over 80% of married people are ill-prepared before tying the nuptial nut with their spouse. A lot is said about the wedding day and elaborate preparations made towards making a grand impression and creating as much publicity about the wedding but this is usually done at the detriment of the long time commitment that marriage entails.

Parents often do not do much to prepare their children for the demands for such long term commitments and so the children only know so much about marriage by what they see on TV and what they observe from their parents. Unfortunately, TV only tends to glorify casual sex and infidelity as virtues rather than what they truly are.

Some couples have jumped into marriages without adequate preparations and the book “Four Things Intending Couples Must Agree On Before Getting Married”is primarily meant to prepare you for marriage. It is also an attempt to make those who are already married do the “right” things they should have done before they got married. If by chance you are already married and you did not agree on these things; then you could still sit down, talk with your spouse and agree. It is not too late to start afresh.

A young man went to a swimming pool and saw people swimming and he thought it was a simple thing to stay afloat. So he jumped into the water and sank. Why? He did not know that it takes lots of practice to learn to stay afloat. Many people have jumped into marriage that way and before you know it, they start looking for help here and there because they had been inadequately prepared for marriage.

You need to be well prepared mentally, emotionally and financially for marriage. You also need a lot of good counseling from parents and trained counselors who will tell you the bare facts. 

Marriage is not romance or sex though they play a vital role in cementing the union between a man and a woman in holy matrimony because when the thrill and emotional high clouds have dissipated, it take hard work for any marriage to work.

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