Saving Your Marriage Before it Starts| Have You Faced the Marriage Myths with Honesty?

From "Saving Your Marriage Before it Starts" by Leslie and Les Parrot. You can find out more on their website here - including pre marriage assessments and many other assessments to help married couples in building and maintaining a happy marriage.

1. "We expect exactly the same things from marriage."
2. "Everything good in our relationship will get better."
3. "Everything bad in my life will disappear."
4. "My spouse will make me whole."

We grew up
molding different ideas of what marriage is. Developing different skills, goals, plans. Needing to develop in different areas. Somethings we're aware of and can talk about - and other things....

1. Unspoken rules
2. Unconscious roles

We know when an unspoken rule is broken (we may not know we even had that rule but we learned it).

Good to develop a habit of talking about unspoken rules and "shedding light".

In this Day whatsoever serveth to reduce blindness and to increase vision is worthy of consideration. This vision acteth as the agent and guide for true knowledge. Indeed in the estimation of men of wisdom keenness of understanding is due to keenness of vision. The people of Baha must under all circumstances observe that which is meet and seemly and exhort the people accordingly.