1. Don’t Have Premarital Sex – This can be with your future spouse or not. Regardless, the statistics show that having premarital sex means a
much higher chance of a failed marriage.
2. Don’t Cohabitate – Cohabitation doubles your chance of divorcing your spouse!
3. Be faithful to your spouse – Nothing rings the death knell of marriage like cheating.
4. Don’t use porn – porn is the fastest growing reason couples divorce today.
5. Avoid drinking too much or using drugs – An addiction (or bad chemical habit) in a marriage is never good.
6. Marry for the right reasons – Marry someone because you feel God is calling you to do so = good thing. But, marrying someone merely
because you have strong emotions about them (which will eventually go away) or because they are good looking (which won’t last) is a great
way to eventually ruin a marriage.
7. Work on Communication – talking really does matter. Find out what the other person wants to talk about and try to work on sharing that too.
It may not be easy for some, but it is worth it.
8. Focus on your home before work – A spouse and children are your vocation in marriage – not your career.
9. Be selfless with time, love, affection, etc – Love always chooses what is best for the other.
10. Find agreement on money and/or debt – Money is the #1 reason that couples argue – so you should be proactive with it.
11.Tithe – The money is not your own, so tithing helps put things in perspective.
12. Don’t use contraception – Couples that use NFP are happier, have better sex-lives, and stay married more than 95% of the time.
13. Never talk negatively about your spouse – how you talk about someone will lead to how you think about them, which changes how you act.
14. Talk about big purchases before making them – Another big money issue that drives a wedge is big purchases that are done without
discussion.
15. Spend more time with your spouse than your friends – you didn’t marry your friends.
16. Let love mature – love that isn’t dependent on the emotions and sex (neither are bad in-and-of-themselves) can become a mature love.
17. Go to church and pray together every day – marriage needs God to be the best in can be.
18. Once you have kids don’t focus all your attention on them – work on the marriage, because while the kids need attention, your spouse does
too.
19. Marry a Christian – There are certain marriages that succeed between believers and non-believers, but the least you are doing is putting a
strain on a relationship if you do. This is true, to a lesser degree, with Catholics and non-Catholics.
20. Be open to growth and change – say you are sorry, humble yourself, make changes.
This list is notxhaustive. If you have one, please comment.

Trash. Marry a christian because every one is a christain abi

Ok. Thank you.

Marriage is too stressful. You base your happiness on the other.

Don't live with your spouse

Marry a xtain

No family planning

Recipe for disaster, follow at your own risk

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