Dating is meant to learn more about each other. Courtship is exclusively dating with an eye towards marriage. Engagement is a contract between two people. A contract is an agreement. We make covenants in the temple, between God and us. We put in a 100% each not together. If we aren't fully trying than we will not last. Marriage, this comes with the questions where, when, how much? Is it about the sealing or the reception?
Does the ring cost matter? It's not what the ring looks like but what it symbolizes. What are some first month decisions that have to be made? - Marital intimacy - decorations - sharing a bed - finances - food & Drink - priorities - temperature in household - chores - schedule. To combined to people's lives together is hard.Something that causes a really big problem is the temperature in the home. Causes arguments in if it should be cold or hot in the house when sleeping. The best thing to do with this and really anything is just talk through it. Explain it in a way that they can understand where you are coming from. Be able to compromise with each other. 1st year -traditions -holidays - medical issues - extended family What traditions are going to be important to you? What traditions are you going to take from your families and callid the two of yours together. Holidays are you spending it with his or her parents. Who gets to put up the christmas tree both or one or the other. Medical issues can you handle taking care of your spouse if they get really hurt. Extended family, are you going to spend a lot of time with family members. Dinner, holidays, what plans do you have? The first child came into this life. Marital intimacy and the couple's relationship suffers because it's about the child now instead of the man. Make sure to keep the man in the experience of having the baby. Share the first kick with him. Make it just him and you in the doctors office so it's a bond between you and him and not the mother and daughter. Explain to him what he is doing and why? Don't make him just feel like another pair of hands. Explain to him it's a bonding time for you and the kid.
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