marriage counseling
Added on May, 07 2008 at 8:44 PM by Sarah
I got married at a young age, I was just 18 and my husband was almost 19. We had dated for a year and a half in high school. We knew we were going to get married. I was just waiting to turn 18 and get out of the house. Things sped along because his parents were moving across the state and he was staying. I was raised not to live with someone until you were married. So that was kind of the natural thing to do. Some people said we got married out of convenience. But it was more the other way around. Anyways, my parents were really 'religious' people and thought we should get marriage counseling from a pastor before getting married. Of course, we did not. If we had had more time, I probably would have gone for the marriage counseling. Since I didn't have the best examples of what a marriage should be from my own family, we have pretty much just figured it out on our own. So far we have not had any marriage problems. Of course, we argue at times, but I think for the most part we are friends so we treat each other as so. If anything ever did become serious, I would definitely have to take steps to save my marriage and get marriage help. I think that is probably the best kind of help to ever get. What other relationship lasts your entire lives? I guess people do not look at it that way anymore. Your relationships with your kids last your entire lives, but you don't have to live with them the whole time, you do have to live with your spouse forever. Sometimes I regret getting married so young. I think of all the things I have not had the chance to experience, like going off to college, having roommates, living alone, alone. Dating people as an adult. But after all that being said, I am more glad that I did not experience all of those things. I do not have anything to regret, and I had security, no skeletons in my closet. It is all in all kind of cool, my husband and I have basically grown into adulthood together.