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When a couple says “I Do”, they make a public commitment. They promise to be true to each other for better or for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, until death parts them. How can couples weather through a stormy season in their relationship and come out triumphantly? What roles can courage, commitment, and resilience play in a successful marriage? Relationship experts Phil Callaway, Julie Baumgardner, Mark Gungor and Erwin McManus offer insight into the tough times.
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It is usually advisable for engaged couples to go through a session of premarital counselling. This is very helpful in preparing the two for the life ahead of marriage. It is a way of bringing to their ‘minds’ what to expect in a marriage set up. Premarital counselling, if well done, and handled by marriage counsellors, helps the couple to learn how to tackle some of the issues that may occur in marriage. In these sessions, alot is taught about relationships, friendship, sex, in-laws, children, work, money, bereavement, faith among many other issues prior to the couple getting married. With this knowledge, when tough times may occur, as they may be expected, the couple that has knowledge of such expectations, is well equipped and well able to handle them with ease. This does not mean that everybody who has gone through the counselling is able to handle ‘tough times’, though may be better off. On the contrary, the life ahead of the two (life in marriage) is made and decided upon by the two individuals. The two can decide to rock the storm, be stubborn or they may decide to work at their marriage and mend the ‘broken walls’.
Through a stormy relationship, couples can be able to make it when they seek the face of God. No matter how violent the storm may be, with God’s help, when the couple is united and commited to their relationship, they can try to salvage their marriage if they want to and mean to. It is the issue of perservering, tolerance and constant communication between the two. The scripture says “what is impossible before man is possible before God”. Believe that God can be with you as a couple, through the storm in your marriage and never give up. Only God can be able to walk with you through the tough times and only He can calm the storm in every marriage!
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thanks a million time
victoria.
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