10/18 - When Marriage Doesn't Look Like You Expected: Rethinking Your Expectations
When Marriage Doesn't Look Like You Expected: Rethinking Your Expectations Before you get married, it's easy to have a picture in your mind of what marriage will be like. Maybe you imagine date nights, vacations, growing old together, raising a family, laughing together, and having someone who always understands you. You may picture your spouse as your best friend, biggest supporter, and person you can always turn to. And hopefully, you picture a lifelong commitment. But there are some things we don't always picture before we get married. We don't necessarily picture the disagreements about money. We don't imagine having the same argument about household responsibilities over and over. We don't picture seasons when one spouse is exhausted while the other needs more connection. We don't think about financial stress, parenting challenges, aging parents, health problems, job changes, grief, spiritual struggles, or simply growing and changing as individuals. ...
