Healthy Marriage Builders - Sessions 3 and 4
Series #3 – Surviving the Holidays, Protection from Social Media, Biblical Roles, Blended Families & Remarriage
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Surviving the Holidays
Recently married couples can experience significant pressure near the holidays, because of differing desires, visions and traditions of families (parents, in-laws, siblings, extended families, blended families) employers, and friends. Add to that the affect of spouses who don’t distinguish or value the new limitations of a recently married couple and you have a formula for disaster. We’ll provide tips for developing new traditions, how and when to make your families aware of your plans, and how well designed intentions may need to change.
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Protecting Your Marriage from the Internet, Social Media and Friends
The increasingly upward use of online social networks, texting, and e-mail, more people are linking with a much broader sphere of “contacts” than ever before in the past. These methods of communiqué permit us to simply stay coupled with friends and associates; it also can cultivate re-connecting with folks from our past, including those of a prior passionate interest. Spouses need to talk about and agree on proper limitations to guard the oneness and unison of their marriage. Be on your safeguard. What may seem like innocence is threaded with the venom of wrongdoing and dishonor.
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Biblical Roles of Husbands and Wives
Uncertainty on the subject of God intended roles in marriage have become normal along with other misconceptions of God’s blueprint for marriage, sex, church say-so, and the like. Indeed, some evangelicals have also cast off the biblical commands on roles for men and women. This sitting shares biblically-based education to help couples see visualization for their relationship that will motivate both spouses’ minds and hearts.
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Blended Families and Remarriage
Many experts are in agreement that unworkable hope for blended family life often position couples for great disillusionment. All new marriages engage diverse people and dissimilar circumstances; it is not uncommon for persons to slide into the same old blueprint and schedule, particularly in the center of the stress of joining together two families. Christian blended families are becoming more and more ordinary in our culture. This session demonstrates some exceptional challenges that step-families encounter and helps prepare the couple for those experiences.
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Series #4 – Wedding Plans, Cultural Diversity, Marriage Expectations, Porn – How It Ruins Your Marriage
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Wedding Planning
Planning a wedding requires two people and two families which frequently have dissimilar standards, outlook, and/or priorities. The result, wedding planning is filled with probable conflicts. Couples should talk about the principles they want to institute in their life as one and how they desire those ideals to be disclosed in their marriage ceremony plans.
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Managing Cultural Differences
The record of intercultural nuptials and interracial matrimony goes back to at least biblical eras. Although yearning for a safe and sound, permanent marriage is common, the ways those wishes are addressed are highly prejudiced by varied, cultural standards. This especially holds for first, and to a lesser extent, second generation immigrants. There is a sharp level of exhilaration and improved worldview allied with couple diversity, such marriages also present bigger challenges to construction a lifelong, gratifying marriage.
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Marriage Expectations
We come into marriage with defined hope that is shaped through a broad assortment of preceding familiarity and contribution from our families, customs, and the media. Expectations about love and marriage have a authoritative impact on relationships. Couples often will be contented or disenchanted in life rooted on how well what is occurring aligns with what they imagine should be happening. All married couples begin eager for and believing they will experience the absolute best. Troubles crop up when these dreams and ideas are not structured on realism.
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Pornography
How It Can Ruin your Marriage. The idea that men are the only ones addictioned pornography is myth. Porn has no boundaries! It effects children, men, women and clergy! Most individuals are first exposed to pornography at the average age of eight. Perhaps you were impacted by introduction to porn or sexual abuse as a juvenile; that experience began a sequence of encounters with pornography during periods your life. This can lead to a rising predicament for them and those they love. In this session we examine the dangers of pornography, the magnitude of the addiction and suggestions for treatment.
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