Can This Marriage Be Saved - Commitment And Understanding
Historically marriage was a revered institution, and couples didn't enter into the holy ritual of matrimony without plenty of thought and commitment. When people agreed to stay married "until death do us part", they meant it, and they stuck with it through better and worse. No one ever thought to wonder "Can this marriage be saved?" Today too many people enter into marriage much more lightly and with the thought that if they don't like it they can always get divorced. Our society is full of questions about how to save your marriage and how to make your spouse love you again.
Can this marriage be saved? If you ask this question to any good psychologist you will definitely get a rotund YES for an answer. There are many resources for marriages that want to be saved from the hands of divorce. Therapists, psychologist, counselors, saving marriages has become a huge business. Truth is, many people get married without even being certain they love the person they are marrying, most of the time they don't even know if they like each other!
Can this marriage be saved? Yes, Work it out! Don't give up at the first bad situation, at the first sign of incompatibility. One of the easiest things to do to save your marriage is to simply walk away, take a big breath and try to approach every situation with a clear perspective. Calm down, marriage is a two way street and some compromises must be made if you want it to work out. No one can have everything they want, remember that both of you are worth the same.
Saving marriages has even become huge business; there are counselors, therapists, support networks and all sorts of services to help work through problems and differences newly weds might encounter. There are people who can help bring stability and understanding back into a relationship that might be otherwise doomed to failure.
To save a marriage is to help society become a clearer place. Saving a marriage is saving a child from becoming torn into two, is saving a child the conflict of having to choose which parent is nicer, whose house is better, who he or she likes the most. A kid from a divorced household is more likely to become a single parent, a kid from a single parent household is more likely to mimic the same lifestyle and also be a single parent.
People need to see marriage for what it once was, a sacred holy union where two people have vowed to share their lives together, through thick or thin. You can't just hang up the towel every time you get bored. This isn't the way things should be. Can you save this marriage? Yes you can, if you are aware of the commitment you came into the relationship with, and you take the time to try.
Used to be, in the old days, that marriages lasted forever; "'till death do us part" actually had a binding meaning and people grew old together...for better or for worse no one went around asking can this marriage be saved. Seems like those days are over, marriages last less and less everyday and people often find themselves asking how to save my marriage? One way to save a marriage is to work it out. Negotiation is very important while working out problems. Marriage counselors help married couples work through their problems and differences. Even though they may seem expensive, they are well worth it if they can help save your marriage.
Published January 13th, 2008
Filed in Family, Relationship
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