Happy Marriage
Posted: Wednesday, December 03, 2008
by Paul Friedman
Lessons For a Happy Marriage
For a lot of people the term happy marriage has become an
oxymoron. Even when I was a kid, we were
listening to jokes on TV that made marriage seem like a battlefield instead of
a refuge of peace in a battlefield world.
The truth of the matter is that ignorance reigned. While studies were being done on everything
from tooth aches in chimpanzees to the fiber content of carrots, the
institution of marriage was left to philosophers, romantics and jokesters to
figure out.
Happy marriage is not an oxymoron. It is a reality for those who understand how
it is constructed and what all those little knobs are for. If I asked you to pilot an airplane you might
insist that you dont know how to fly.
Nobody has ever showed you how.
Well, believe it or not it is more difficult to learn how to fly a plane
than to be married. It is insane to get
married without knowing how, or what it is all about. If you learn about how to behave within a
marriage, and how not to behave, your marriage will be happy.
Marriage is meant to
be happy. Marriage is supposed to be
happy. Marriages are naturally happy.
It is a mistake to think you have to work in a marriage; you
dont. You just have to know how it
works. If you twist the lid of the jar
in the wrong direction it will tighten when you want it to loosen. Once you know which direction does what, you
wont have to strain again.
Learn the rules and principles of marriage. Thats all it takes, I promise. But do you really need my promise? Isnt it so obvious? Yes it is!
www.lessonsforahappymarriage.com
Paul Friedmans entry into the business of helping couples mend their marriages
began with a very rough personal experience with divorce. Paul came out
of an early retirement to become a mediator. His belief was that couples could
easily work out the details of separation and get on with their lives. He
discovered the truth from his clients:they only sought divorce because the
help they found to stay together didn't work.
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