As your wedding date comes and goes, you will be presented with lots of guidance, some better than other ones. But if you keep these nine things under consideration, your marriage will go right from the start and you can avoid some common problems that many face in the initial few years of their married life:
- Respect the rituals. That includes the custom of an engagement band and wedding ring as well as other jewellery pieces for special occasions throughout a marriage. And of course, you may as well buy into Valentine's Day. All of your friends have.
- Don't rush into having kids. Start to know one another better and enjoy being a pair before you change the dynamic by adding kids. Once the children arrive, the focus is off your relationship and onto them.
- Avoid debt if you can. Debt is a yoke that may weigh down your life, so don't take it on if you can avoid it. You will have to take on loans for a home or car, but that new television or patio enlargement can wait until you've got sufficient funds in hand.
- Do not have unrealistic expectations. Marriage involves some tough times, and it doesn't solve the problems you already have individually or as a couple. Deal with issues as well as you can, and understand that some of them will never go completely.
