How to Succeed in Your Marriage

How to Succeed in Your Marriage

Successful Marriages: Practical Series (book 1)

Marriage starts with the wedding, but the wedding ceremony is just the beginning. Sharing your life and personal space, including your secrets and emotions, with another individual is a daunting task. For many, it has been a difficult journey.
The books in this series are written based on scriptural principles to help individuals looking forward to getting married, who want their marriage to work, and who are willing to work at it. Marriage works because we are humans and were made for the marriage union. It fails when we only look after ourselves and what we can gain from others without consideration for our partners or the common good. Marriage is neither an escape route from home nor a way to get rid of loneliness.
Society influences our outlook; when society fails to uphold certain virtues necessary for a successful marriage, it affects the family, and it becomes a perpetual event. Healing for society comes from creating marriage unions that work. When the family is healthy, the community is healthy

Practical Tips for Newlyweds and Young Couples

The best thing that can happen to any society is for the family unit to be successful. The happier marriages we have, the more emotionally stable individuals (children and adults) we’d have in the community, and the stronger we would be as a people. The daily experiences of the two individuals as they live their lives together are meant to knit them into one. They become lost in each other. When others interact with them afterward, they do not see two different individuals, but one person manifested in two people. I pray that every sincere youth will have this glorious experience.
I hope that reading this book will help your relationship with your lawfully wedded spouse and enable you to experience true marital bliss. May you succeed in your marriage.

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Wedding Vs Marriage

The wedding marks the end of singleness, gives the feeling of completeness, and begins the process of marriage.
The wedding is a time many singles look forward to. That day they hope to tie the knot and proceed to a new phase of life. Their hope and joy are to become fulfilled by being happily ever married. That is what it was meant to be; that is what we desire. The dream is to live together with our spouse and be happy forever, and I pray that your dreams come true.
“Two days later there was a wedding in the town of Cana in Galilee, and Jesus’ mother was there. Jesus and his followers were also invited.” 1
The wedding day will be the first day of your married life. The process of marriage, which is expected to ultimately melt two people into one, starts on the wedding day. Let us compare marriage to making a cup of tea, which I will refer to as the marriage between the tea and the milk (or cream). As they blend into one, it is still regarded as tea, but the whole nature and taste are the blend of two different things. The sugar, sweetener, of honey, hopefully, will make their union a sweet one. So also, I hope that what each of you allows into the union of marriage will make it a sweet one.
“Then the man said, “This, at last, is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman because she was taken out of Man. “Therefore, a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife. And they shall become one flesh, and the man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed.“2
With this book, I hope to give you some insights into the process of marriage from the scriptures and personal experience. I will attempt to show you what I believe is the mind of God, the author of marriage, through His written word. Also, if 19 years of marriage means much to you, I will be sharing some opinions formed through experience.
The best thing that can happen to any society is for the family unit to be successful. The happier marriages we have, the more emotionally
stable individuals (children and adults) we’d have in the community,
and the stronger we would be as a people.
“Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. Husband, love your wives and do not be harsh with them. Children obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord. Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged.”3
At the time of the marriage vow, being a replica of what happened at the Garden of Eden, God makes two people one. In that union is the full blessing of marital union, which is expected to be consummated in the perfect act of intimacy called sex. While this is expected to be a spiritual event in God’s sight, the physical expression of the same takes time. The daily experiences of the two individuals as they live their lives together are meant to knit them into one. The process may take a long time or a short one, but for couples who can stick together long enough, the two gradually become one in attitude, outlook, approach to issues, thought processes, and desires. They become lost in each other.
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Read a Sample

Wedding Vs Marriage

The wedding marks the end of singleness, gives the feeling of completeness, and begins the process of marriage.
The wedding is a time many singles look forward to. That day they hope to tie the knot and proceed to a new phase of life. Their hope and joy are to become fulfilled by being happily ever married. That is what it was meant to be; that is what we desire. The dream is to live together with our spouse and be happy forever, and I pray that your dreams come true.
“Two days later there was a wedding in the town of Cana in Galilee, and Jesus’ mother was there. Jesus and his followers were also invited.” 1
The wedding day will be the first day of your married life. The process of marriage, which is expected to ultimately melt two people into one, starts on the wedding day. Let us compare marriage to making a cup of tea, which I will refer to as the marriage between the tea and the milk (or cream). As they blend into one, it is still regarded as tea, but the whole nature and taste are the blend of two different things. The sugar, sweetener, of honey, hopefully, will make their union a sweet one. So also, I hope that what each of you allows into the union of marriage will make it a sweet one.
“Then the man said, “This, at last, is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman because she was taken out of Man. “Therefore, a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife. And they shall become one flesh, and the man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed.“2
With this book, I hope to give you some insights into the process of marriage from the scriptures and personal experience. I will attempt to show you what I believe is the mind of God, the author of marriage, through His written word. Also, if 19 years of marriage means much to you, I will be sharing some opinions formed through experience.
The best thing that can happen to any society is for the family unit to be successful. The happier marriages we have, the more emotionally
stable individuals (children and adults) we’d have in the community,
and the stronger we would be as a people.
“Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. Husband, love your wives and do not be harsh with them. Children obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord. Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged.”3
At the time of the marriage vow, being a replica of what happened at the Garden of Eden, God makes two people one. In that union is the full blessing of marital union, which is expected to be consummated in the perfect act of intimacy called sex. While this is expected to be a spiritual event in God’s sight, the physical expression of the same takes time. The daily experiences of the two individuals as they live their lives together are meant to knit them into one. The process may take a long time or a short one, but for couples who can stick together long enough, the two gradually become one in attitude, outlook, approach to issues, thought processes, and desires. They become lost in each other.
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