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Marriage Myths |
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Rather than allowing myths about marriage to undermine your relationship, you should find those truths that help keep relationships strong. That doesn’t mean settling for less. The purpose is to guide you through the journey so that you can make your marriage all that it can be. A good marriage is a long term process – not an overnight miracle. Still, you may be pleasantly surprised at how examining these myths can help you see your marriage more clearly.
- Marriage benefits men much more than women. [husbands gain greater health benefits, while wives gain greater financial advantages]
- Having children typically brings a married couple closer together and increases marital happiness.
- The keys to long – term marital success are good luck and romantic love.
- The more educated a woman becomes, the lower are her chances of getting married.
- Couples who live together before marriage, and are thus able to test how well suited they are for each other, have more satisfying and longer lasting marriages than couples who do not.
- People can’t be expected to stay in a marriage for a lifetime as they did in the past because we live so much longer today.
- Marrying puts a woman at greater risk of domestic violence than if she remains single.
- Married people have less satisfying sex lives, and less sex than single people.
- Cohabitation is just like marriage, but without “the piece of paper”.
- Because of the high divorce rate, which weeds out the unhappy marriages, people who stay married have happier marriages than people did in the past when everyone stuck it out, no matter how bad the marriage.
- Finding Mr. or Mrs. Right.
- Two people in a good marriage automatically grow closer with time.
- When couples argue, it destroys the relationship.
- Pursuing your own individual needs is incompatible with making a marriage work.
- Marriage partners can fill the gaps in one another’s makeup.
- The goal of marriage is for both partners to get exactly what they want.
- Your spouse is your best friend.
- Don’t go to bed angry.
- Don’t worry if you don’t have sex.
- Don’t fight in front of your kids.
- Don’t take your spouse for granted.
- “My spouse will change after marriage”.
- “Things will be better after the marriage”.
- “If he really loved me he’d know how I feel”.
- “My way is the right way.”
- “If we love each other and have the spirit of the lord, we will have no major disagreements.”
- “I should have warm, affectionate feelings toward my companion all the time or I’m not in love.”
- “I should always be open and honest in all my thoughts and feelings, no matter how much it hurts.”
- “If I fell miserable, I am not responsible for the way I treat others.”
All of us have the right to want our needs fulfilled, but it’s important to be realistic. Even in the best of marriages, a spouse can provide just so much fulfillment. The rest may have to come from children, from work, from the pursuit of various interests, or from within. |
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