After the Wedding – How to Survive Your First Year of Marriage

While you and your Price Charming are busy preparing for your dream wedding,  most if not all of you are also looking forward to your happily ever after married life.  Not to distract you from your plans and dreams, but have you stopped and think how many marriages survive past the first year of marriage?

In reality, marriage is not a happy ending but a glorious beginning to your new life.  While life as newlyweds is exciting it can also be challenging.  It is said that the first year of marriage is the hardest and people often speculate on if a new marriage will “survive” the first year.  Don’t let speculation and struggles get in the way, take care of the newlywed issues before they become problems and you’ll have a much easier first year.

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Prenuptial Agreements – Should You Have One?

Most people view “prenuptial agreements” or “pre-nups” as distasteful or as a sign of distrust between a couple planning to get married. There’s always the connotation that this piece of paper is insurance when the couple’s “happily ever after” take a turn into a battle in the divorce court; and that it is for the truly wealthy and celebrities only.

Will you put car, home, health and life insurance in the same light? I don’t think so. Prenuptial agreements are similar to these insurances – no one anticipates an accident, fire, major sickness, death or divorce. We certainly do not want to talk about it, but it can happen and sometimes it does happen to us when we least expected; and it is best to be prepared.

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Surviving the First Year of Marriage

How to build a foundation that will last.

It is common knowledge that the first year of marriage is usually the hardest.  Many couples think that they can bypass this situation by living together before marriage.  While this may help you when it comes to getting to know your partner’s daily habits, there will still be some sticky situations after you’ve said “I do”. Whether you’ve lived together for years, or this is your first time under the same roof, here are some sticky situations that newlyweds often find themselves in – and tips for getting out of them.

Redefining your daily life.

Whether you lived together before marriage or not, there is still a certain rosy glow that is bound to wear off of your relationship eventually.  The last several months, and maybe even years, before you got married were probably consumed with wedding planning.  Now that you’re back in the real world, it can be a disappointing shock to realize that daily life isn’t the fairy tale you thought it would be.  If you find that you and your spouse are getting into regular fights [Read more]

Do’s and Don’ts For A Happy Marriage

I do not claim to be the “guru” on how to keep the love burning after you’ve settled in your new home and your new life as husband and wife. But, I found this article somewhere that I somehow kept to remind me what to do and what mistakes to avoid and correct to stay happily married.  I wished I can say that these are the definitive causes of a successful or failed marriage, but, frankly, there is no magical formula to guarantee a happy marriage.  However, knowing these tips will give you better odds that you would end up happily married for a long, long time. 

First, the “Do” list:

• spend time alone together;
• appreciate each other
• be intimate often;
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