Why do most people get married - why did you?
Or want to?
We did a study with hundreds of couples, married, about to get married, both first timers and second timers. Here are some of the reasons people get married:
- Companionship/intimacy
- Having a home
- Because friends are
- To have financial security
- Afraid of growing old alone
- Family expectation
Since most people get married to someone whose company they enjoy, wind up having a family, a home, intimacy is available regularly, have security, in other words all the things they believed were the reasons they wanted to get married, why do 50% of marriages fail, or worse, so many persist in an unhappy state?
We believe that there is another reason people get married – more central to personal happiness, and therefore more important to a successful marriage.
Unfortunately it is not common knowledge. Our parents and family never sat down and explained that marriage holds a promise beyond the obvious.
Concepts such as ‘Men are from Mars, and Women are from Venus’ are destructive in that they direct us to try and figure out the opposite sex, as if the key was our differences.
The truth is the key to our happiness lies in our similarities, similar needs.
We often enter into marriage thinking that it is going to be the answer to all the problems and issues we faced prior. We already placed most of those issues into the ‘not-to-be-opened till after death’ file of our memory. Painful experiences from childhood, teenage years, young adulthood. Messages about our intelligence, capability, attractiveness, sexuality and our very existence.
We hope that getting married to a wonderful person will put the final nail into the coffin of those bad memories.
What we don’t realize is that the human being is a system that attempts to reach equilibrium, homeostasis, and peace within.
Whereas during dating we do our best to forget about bad events and experiences, negative feelings and thoughts about ourselves, relationships and the opposite sex, in relationship, especially marriage, there is a natural urge to begin the healing process.
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