9 Questions to Help You Take an Honest Look at Your Marriage
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Does evaluating your marriage sound a little scary? Don’t be afraid to read this. Here’s why. Most of us regularly do maintenance of our cars and our homes. We take performance appraisals at work. Our kids are graded at school. But do we give our marriages even half this much focus? Your first thought is probably, “Who has time?” I’ve been there. We had six kids in 10 years and marriage was not my focus for many minutes of any given day. It was an ongoing juggling act for most of our marriage. And it still can be. Marriage maintenance is hard to prioritize because our culture doesn’t have built-in systems like we do for health, home, car, and job care. But it doesn’t work to pretend your marriage has no issues, no cracks in the foundation, no work to be done.
9 Questions to Help You Take an Honest Look at Your Marriage
9 Questions to Help You Take an Honest Look…
9 Questions to Help You Take an Honest Look at Your Marriage
Does evaluating your marriage sound a little scary? Don’t be afraid to read this. Here’s why. Most of us regularly do maintenance of our cars and our homes. We take performance appraisals at work. Our kids are graded at school. But do we give our marriages even half this much focus? Your first thought is probably, “Who has time?” I’ve been there. We had six kids in 10 years and marriage was not my focus for many minutes of any given day. It was an ongoing juggling act for most of our marriage. And it still can be. Marriage maintenance is hard to prioritize because our culture doesn’t have built-in systems like we do for health, home, car, and job care. But it doesn’t work to pretend your marriage has no issues, no cracks in the foundation, no work to be done.