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To keep your marriage alive and growing, it requires that you invest time, energy, and money in your relationship. Too often, couples invest time in their work and in themselves but do not invest time to help their relationship grow.
Plants need nutrients, water, and sun to continue to blossom and grow. Marriages also need attention and support. Growing together as a couple means sharing feelings, ideas, and goals and to continually work to achieve them as a couple.
Most couples spend a great deal of time, energy, and money on their wedding ceremony and reception, which only lasts for a few short hours. They often invest little time building relationship skills that will help them have a more satisfying marriage.
It is much easier to prepare for a successful wedding than a successful marriage. While a wedding involves concrete tasks that need to be completed, a successful marriage requires that you also take time to share feelings, both positive and negative.
Growing closer to each other requires sharing feelings, ideas, and goals. Too often couples simply spend time and take each other for granted and wonder why their relationship is less satisfying. To help prevent problems and keep your relationship growing, we recommend daily compliments and dialogue.
Giving each other compliments is easy to do and it even encourages your partner to compliment you. This helps you both stay focused on your strengths and the positive things that brought you together. It also prevents your relationship from becoming routine and from taking each other for granted.
For most couples the first year of marriage is difficult and frustrating. In
order to help you deal with these issues and continue to strengthen your
marriage, we encourage you to participate in various types of marriage
enrichment programs.
