What to consider before marriage *HELP!!!*

United States
January 9, 2008 4:59pm CST
Hey guys!!! I am considering marriage when I grauduate college but i'm always being told that i REALLY need to think things through before anything happens! As most of you are probably married, what tips, hints, etc would you give me for marriage? I'd love to hear your crazy, happy, wild marriage stories!!!
5 responses
9 Jan 08
Id say if your getting married make sure you plan the honeymoon well as that could make the marriage get of to a great start not like mine where we went to egypt and both of us ended up having the trotts for the whole 2 weeks so we could get up to any after wedding nooky as we were both fighting each other for the toilet not the way i thought the honeymoon was going to go. Aslo just enjoy yourself planning the big day as you hope it will only happen once so done rush a date make it well in the future so you can take it easy selecting thing otherwise you will have to have second best
• United States
9 Jan 08
hahaha i feel bad laughing at your story because thats bad =[ hah i wish you had a better honeymoon!!! lol thanks for your post =] well, your marriage is good now right?! lol
9 Jan 08
Our marriage is a strong one, we put the honeymood behind us and just got on with living together, we then planned to have children and then in november 2005 out popped noah so we couldnt be happier.
@shesaid (71)
• United States
9 Jan 08
I think dr.phil says it best when he metioned in a book of his that many people spend months planning their wedding but not their marriage. This is true so many times we are focused on the wedding and not how to make their marriage really work. I would say first of all make sure you and your S.O. have similar communication styles, so you guys will be able to talk about the issues that will arise in a marriage. second of all i would say to make sure your money spendings habits are similar, or that you both agree on how to spend money. likewise i say to make sure your money saving habits are similar, that you have the same goals on saving money and finally i say the next would be children. Do both of you want them? what punishment tactics do you both agree with along with religion etc. i hope this helps some.
• United States
9 Jan 08
Thank you!!!! :) it was really helpful!!!!
• United States
10 Jan 08
The first thing you need to do is make sure you are able to talk about anything, no matter what. Then you need to talk about the major marital issues: children, money, housing, spending, jobs/school, religion, your families and any other miscellaneous aspirations either of you may have. If they all coincide or are compromisable, then you're off to a good start. Then you really should live together to make sure you can do that without going insane.
9 Jan 08
I dont think that you are too young to get married if you both are in love and committed to each other and it what yopu both want then go and get married and spend many happy years together.
• United States
9 Jan 08
I would just make sure that marriage is what you want. Don't rush into if you are not sure you want to yet. Don't feel as though you have too. That is the worst mistake you could make. I am geting married on sturday. I've been with my boyfriend for almost 3 years. To think that he wants to get married to someone as mean as me but I would not have enough thought about when we first started dating. It took him almost 2 years to even try to bring it up. I guess what I really want to get acrossed to you is don't rush, take baby staeps and be happy.