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Building a strong marriage Sharing goals, values and time helps build relationship Return to articles index | Marriage and sexuality | Tips for lovers | Your financial future
While a plant needs nutrients, water and sun to continure to blossom and grow, marriage also neesds attention and support. Growing together as a couple means sharing feelings, ideas and goals, and to continually work to achieve them as as couple. Most couples spend a great deal of time, energy and money on their wedding ceremony, which only lats a few hours. However, they oftern invest little time building relationsip skills that will help them have a more satisfying marriage. It is much easier to prepare for a successful wedding than for a successful marriage. While a wedding involves concrete tasks that need to be completed, a successful marriage requires that you also take time to share feelings, both positive and negative. Growing closer to each other requires sharing feelings, ideas and goals. Too often couples simply spend time and take each other for granted and wonder why their relationship is less satisfying. To help prevent problems and keep your relationship growing, we recommend daily compliments and dialouge. Giving each other compliments is easy to do and it even encourages your partner to compliment you. This helps you both keep focused on your strengths and the positive things that brought you together. Italso prevents your relationship from becoming routine and from taking each other for granted. For most couples, the first year of marriage is sometimes difficult and frustrating. To help you deal with these issues and continue to strengthen your marriage, we encourage you to participate in various types of marriage enrichment programs. Return to articles index |
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