16 WAYS OF MARRIAGE MYTHS

1. You need to know having a stress-free life together is a myth. What you will have is someone to face the stress with.

2. You need to know it’s a myth that marriage changes people. But people can change a marriage.

3. You need to know a perfect marriage requires perfect people. Which is a myth.

4. You need to know it’s a myth that a happy couple agrees about everything. In fact, some of the happiest couples may rarely agree about anything. Except to love and accept each other.

5. You need to know that never going to bed angry is a myth. If couples never went to bed angry, they would be sleep deprived.

6. You need to know it’s a myth that marriage ill make you happier. If you’re unhappy now, you’ll be just as unhappy later.


7. You need to know that living happily ever after is a myth. There’ll be days where you’d be happier living in Siberia as a goat herder.

8. You need to know it’s a myth to think you’ll be joyously in love every day.

9. You need to know it’s a myth that you’ll be on the same spiritual plane. Everybody has a uniquely personal relationship with God that changes throughout life.

10. You need to know that being happy in an “open marriage” is a myth. Adultery weighs on your soul.

11. You need to know that thinking you’ll do everything together is a myth. Doing what you don’t want to do over and over again will just make you unhappy.

12. You need to know it’s a myth that she’ll complete you. That’s a movie line.

13. You need to know it’s a myth that having a baby will bring you closer. If you don’t work at it, a baby will drive you apart.

14. You need to know it’s a myth that romantic love is the basis for long-term marriages. Romantic love ends in about a year.

15. You need to know it’s a myth that sex won’t matter as you get older. The reality is sex gets better.

16. You need to know your every dream won’t be fulfilled by marriage. But miracles you haven’t even imagined will happen.