PREPARE YOURSELF 'FOR' MARRIAGE AND NOT WAIT TO PREPARE 'IN' MARRIAGE!
Marriage is a lifetime engagement, thus, every interested party must prepare for his or her marriage timely.
Wedding is an initiation into marriage-hood. Therefore, you may succeed when you prepare for marriage, not when you prepare in marriage. Do not just prepare for your wedding, but for your marriage.
Preparing in marriage is very risky. If you prepare for marriage, then, you have prepared in marriage.
Marriage is all about meeting the needs of the parties; being a companion to each other. It is not about oppressing or taking advantage of the other. It is all about advising and correcting each other.
In marriage, the parties should always listen to each other's plights and opinions.
No monopoly of decision-making.
A loving husband listens to his wife, then makes the best decision out of her words. But a foolish one rebuffs and sees it as a mere woman's opinion.
Man cannot stay alone, he therefore needs a companion (a woman).
It pleases God and he deliberately created the woman and the man differently. And each of them has his or her duties, powers and limits.
Marriage is a communion of love not of quarrels, nor a hall of crisis. Therefore, it is more of the duty of the man to quell the duels whenever they arises, and not contributively letting it engulf them. The man should be the man not woman.
Women are created by God to thrive in an atmosphere of love. Thus, when you treat her well, you enjoy her more. Vice versa. A woman who feels that she will make her husband a dustpan, has caused the worst for herself. Everybody has a role to play in keeping peace and sustaining love between them.
You must remember that both of you were strangers till you became one. You were bred and brought-up by different parents or guidance, and in different ways or environment. Thus, you were of different understanding until you accepted each other and became one, so, there must be misunderstanding someday.
Marriage is the sweetest engagement, but with it's peculiar bitterness.
A party who has prepared for marriage, will be timeously endowed with the 'strength' to manage and overcome whatever bitterness that may ensue thereafter.
Therefore, prepare for marriage. Do not wait to prepare in marriage. That's risky!
Charles C. Dennis
Beautiful article no doubt... But seems to educate one on the definition of marriage wit a constant reminder of d topic of d article.. However.. I think emphasis must b laid on the preparation for marriage n not merely stating it AL through d article....how do one prepare for marriage
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