How Serious Are These Relationships?
Overview
Everyone who's been in any kind of long term relationship, (room mates, living together or being married) usually knows all this stuff. But it boggles my mind that no one, not even your parents, tells you any of it when it really gets serious: BEFORE the wedding.
After a nasty arguement with my fiance the day before our wedding, the only advice I got from my (first) future mother-in-law was,
"Don't worry, everyone fights before the wedding. After you're married it'll all work out."
She made it sound like some magical thing happens after the ceremony that makes us forget all the things we really don't like about each other. Wow. Well, that didn't happen. Six years later I walked out and learned all this stuff (in this lesson) the hard way.
Hold onto your seats because you might be shocked to learn about all the possible legal entanglements.
What You Can Expect to Learn
- Loving someone doesn't mean you can or should live with them.
- How to figure out who you can really live with (with the same list that saved my life).
- A long-term relationship commitment is the one of the most important times to be selfish about YOUR wants and needs.
- You will always get what you settle for.
- Yes, the marriage license application is small, but it is a legally binding financial agreement.
- Nope, no magic wand is waved at a wedding ceremony to make you into the ideal partners for each other. That's on you: examine everything before the wedding.
Supporting Files
1. Living with Roommates
2. Relationship Agreements: What do You Think?
3. The Perfect Match Worksheet & Example
This is the list that saved my life!
4. Facts About Marriage
5. How to Change Your Name
6. Divorce: Friendly or Nasty?
Videos
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