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Can One Prepare Enough for Marriage?

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Marriage is said to be the coming together of two individuals of opposite sex, from totally different background, with the intention of sharing each other's company for the rest of their lives. The challenges that comes with this journey is sometimes not so clear from the onset and it is for this reason you find two persons who were virtually inseparably in love but within some months as married couples, they divorce and the love vanishes. The level of uncertainties that comes with married life is enormous. So this question was raised in a group I belong to on FB ( The Marital Bliss community ) which explores the possibilities of intentional happy marriage. The responses to this question left me with more questions and opened my eyes how diverse our human understanding is, in the issues of marriage. In contributing to the discussions, i posited that yes one can prepare enough for marriage but several others disagreed. Here is my position; On this question, bearing in mi

Precious Tips On Sustaining Your Marriage.

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No man or woman, no husband or wife sees the best of their partner before marriage. As you progress in years as a couple, there always seem to be changes in the character of your partner. But in actual sense those things you see as changes, are characters evoked by the situations  of marriage. Marriage obeys the Law of astronomy; the higher you go the cooler it becomes. No matter how long you have stayed with your partner, your individuality remains. As a husband, your wife is still a woman and as a wife, your husband is still a man. Here are four precious tips to keep your marriage going... 1. Always Remember Peace is a Choice in Marriage Peace like they say is not the absence of conflict but the ability to amicably handle tension and crisis. For every crisis in a home, both the husband and wife are responsible. It is usually as a result of the action of one partner or the reaction of the other. Or rather the inaction  of both parties that leads to conflict. Peace in