Wednesday, August 10, 2016

GREAT MARRIAGES JUST DON'T HAPPEN (Part 2)



In our last blog we talked about the assumption that our marriage will grow automatically. We learned that relationships and more so marriage are easy if we just work hard at them. They prosper when and where they are attended to. You must engage the gear it’s not an automatic car.

The second trap that we do fall in is the lack of knowledge one. Not knowing how to do certain things like, how to communicate effectively, how to romance your spouse, how to have a fulfilling sex life, how to meet each other’s needs. These things again don’t just come naturally or automatically. They have to be learned. There are several books that can help you in the different areas of your marriage, there is the net, there are Marriage Seminars and Retreats organized by people like us where you get to learn some of these things. And you just don’t learn for information sake, you learn so as to put into practice.

The more you practice it, the more it becomes a skill that you use to grow your marriage. What we have observed with many couples is that they lack the basic skills especially communication and conflict resolution skills that would have saved their marriage. It is not just a matter of the heart as many couples wish for and pray for a good marriage, but it is also a matter of applying the right skills to have that kind of marriage that you desire. Of course it must first start with a desire because skills without desire, without the heart can lead to manipulation or doing things mechanically. No one wants that in their marriage.

So having the desire to grow your marriage,
·         What skills do you lack?
·         What do you need to do to learn those skills?
·         Where are you going to learn those skills from?

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