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If anyone tells you that marriage is easy they are selling you a bill of goods! Marriage is tough, it’s difficult, challenging, toilsome … whatever you want to call it, it is not easy, it is downright hard! However, it can either be hard in a positive way, or hard in a negative and unhealthy way. When it is hard in an unhealthy and negative way, it keeps us in cycles of hurt and resentment. On the other hand, when it is hard in a positive, healthy way, you are able to break through difficult moments and find deeper levels of intimacy and connection. But make no mistake, those positive breakthroughs don’t come easy! Either way, you are going to encounter this hardship when you get married. We see that in 1 Corinthians 7:28 scripture confirms this idea that marriage is hard, “But if you do marry, you have not sinned, and if a betrothed woman marries, she has not sinned. Yet those who marry will have worldly troubles…”
Planning the Wedding VS Preparing for the Marriage
It is common for couples to spend a lot of time, money, and energy on “The Big Day”, but the problem is that the splendor and glory of the wedding does not mean that you will have a splendid and glorious marriage. The amount of money you have spent is no reflection on the quality of your future marriage, and the amount that the wedding day enriches the rest of your life is negligible. A recent study found that the more people spend on their wedding, the more likely they are to divorce later. This is possibly because of a miscalculation that the couple makes, “if the wedding day is like a fairytale then the rest of our lives will be like a fairytale”. That thought gives an unrealistic expectation on the power of weddings and what a marriage really needs.
What a marriage needs to succeed are not grand events but everyday actions and connections. Although our everyday interactions may seem insignificant when you add them up over a month, year, or decade you get hundreds of thousands of positive interactions that make the marriage great. There is great reward for those who spend more time planning and preparing for their marriage than for their wedding. Although we love weddings &; the importance of them, we highly encourage you to invest more in your future marriage than in your wedding, it WILL be worth it!
About Us
Timothy & Ruth Olson
Hi guys, we can’t wait to get to know you & are excited to share more about us. We are Timothy & Ruth Olson and we have been married for 10 years and we have 4 children (3 girls and a boy). We live in Corona, California where we own and operate a private practice as Marriage & Family Therapists. Together we have over 20 years of experience working with couples like you to help them get the marriage they want. We look forward to connecting with you and we know that our marriage prep program will change your relationship and undoubtedly set you up to be Married for a Lifetime!