You Can Make Your Marriage a Success

IT IS  unrealistic to expect a marriage to be problem free. After all, even well-matched marriage mates are not perfectly compatible. Hence, difficulties of some sort are inevitable. Just as rust can corrode metal under a coat of paint,, a number of factors  can cut away at a marriage. To understand what can be done to improve a marriage, let us first examine some of the things that can go wrong. 

Times of Great Stress

The Bible predicted that many people in our time would be "lovers of themselves, lovers of money, self assuming, haughty, . . .unthankful, disloyal, having no affection, not open to any agreement, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, without love of goodness, betrayers, headstrong, puffed up with pride." (2 Timothy 3:2-4) Such traits can amplify the misunderstandings, miscommunications, and thoughtless remarks that come so easily to imperfect humans. 


"It's a confusing period in history to be married" notes one researcher. "On the one hand . . .,we have access to an almost infinite amount of information on how to make our marriages stronger .  . .On the other hand, we are faced with  a host of social and economic forces which strain our capacity to have good marriages." 

Next time: What Can Go Wrong? -  Unrealistic Expectations 

From the AWAKE! magazine, 2008