Agreeing
How many of us have talked about some of the things we may face together in marriage, and have agreed on the ways we will handle certain issues?
If you haven’t talked to your spouse about any issues you may face together, you should begin now.
There have been so many things that have come up in my own marriage, I am thankful we had those talks. It gave us a place of agreement to use in our decisions.
When we have to make decisions, we have a basis of those discussions to go on.
Here are a few issues I would suggest you talk about. They are common to many marriages and life in general.
1) Who takes care of the bills?
2) How much can one spouse spend without talking it over with the other?
3) How do we handle discipline issues?
4) When disagreements arise, should we talk (argue) in front of the kids?
5) Who gets the final say about big decisions we can’t agree on?
6) Will we go to church? Where?
7) Rules for arguing (yes, we have these, and they have kept us from hurting eachother and ourselves)
If we are both very busy, we need to schedule time together- and not cancel.
9) If we are very busy, we may need to schedule time for sex (#8 doesn’t count, that is for relationship- talking, playing, dates)
10) Who does what around the house
11) How do we handle in-law interference?
12) How will we decide whose family to spend holidays with?
I am sure there are many other issues you each can come up with, this is just to give you some ideas of where to start.
Agreement helps any situation, and if you agree before things happen, they will go much smoother.
Happy Monday!!
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