If you’re like most women who are about to get married, you dream of having a perfect wedding followed by a perfect marriage that will last a lifetime. I know that was my dream almost 38 years ago when my boyfriend (now husband) proposed to me.
So why do about 50% of marriages end in divorce? Is there too much focus on the wedding and not enough on preparation for the marriage? Are there key things every bride should know that no one is talking about? Is it just a sign of our times – the “I have a right to be happy” syndrome?
Maybe we as parents aren’t preparing our children properly for marriage. I know my mother told me absolutely nothing about marriage and didn’t even have a good book to recommend to me. I felt lost in a vacuum of silence. I knew there would inevitably be issues that would come up that I would be totally unprepared for. I was right. Fortunately for us, relatively early on in our marriage we went to a marriage encounter weekend that gave us tools for communication that then enabled us to begin to truly understand each other.
How much better it would have been if we had had adequate premarital counseling or at least some minimal tools to equip us for the challenges of marriage.
To help those of you who might be interested, I have written a short e-mail series called, “5 Secrets About Marriage Your Mother Will Never Tell You.” I’d love to send it to you, completely free of charge and with no obligations. And I’d also love to have your feedback to make it even better. Please use the sign up box on this blog and the e-mails will come to you spaced out over the next 10 days. Hope you enjoy them and that you have lots of feedback for me.
Authored by Sharon Reece
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