Keep boundaries when attraction to others arises to protect the relationship. Use marital challenges as opportunities for joint growth. Ensure both partners are equally ready for marriage to avoid deep frustration. Pursue individual purpose alongside shared life as a team. Cultivate unity to prevent competition and build love through shared activities. Beware of negative counsel from those unhappy in their own relationships. Recognize marriage seasons—togetherness, conflict, trial, and strengthened unity after victory. Prepare intentionally for children to preserve couple focus. Resolve singlehood issues before marriage and take personal responsibility for relational outcomes.
Every marriage has its challenges, the secret is to use those challenges to grow together. You may be ready for marriage but if you marry someone who is not, you will be greatly frustrated. Don't be loving the wrong person the right way. There is more to life than marriage, pursue your individual purpose even as you do life as a team. When you see you two as one, you will not see each other as competition.
Find activities to do together as a couple. Love is built on activity. Be careful who you listen to. Some people are not happy to be in their marriage or in their singlehood and don't want you to be happy in your marriage. Marriage has different seasons. The together season, the conflict season where you both try to find your space in it and conflicts often arise,
If you don't prepare for children, children will come and diminish the love and focus you two had for each other. Many marriages suffer when parenting begins. All the issues in your life that you did not deal with in singlehood, will bring issues in your marriage. Work on yourself. Just because your parent's marriage failed, doesn't mean yours will too. Just because your parent's marriage flourished, doesn't mean yours will either. Take personal responsibility.
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