This is a tropical question that usually brothers people mind and thinking today and it even makes people to shy away from marriage and the responsibilities associated with marriage .This is largely because of the increasing divorce rates , separation , trouble relationship , break up that we are all experiencing in our modern society today. More than 50% of marriages in the United States end up in break up, separation and divorce today after 5-10 years of marriage and up to one million children in the US every year suffer the psychological and emotional trauma of breakup and broken relationship.
This statistics makes mostly young people growing up to dare marriage thinking whether it will work for them since it did not work for their parents, family members or their neighbours.
That not withstanding the available statistics and experience that we have in our society today, you can still build up strong lasting relationship and marriage only if you are willing to give it the commitment, trust and faith that going into a marriage relationship demands of you with all your heart and faith belief that your marriage will certainly work for you and your spouse to be.
The reason why you are scare about marriage today is because of the urgent experiences that marriage has presented to us in our present generation and most of the ugly experiences today , we see it right from our homes with our parents and you have been thinking whether you should get married because you do not want to end up with a relationship filled with great pain, worry and disappointment that could make you to become an emotional rake, even though you like the idea of marriage and the marriage institution comes with respect and regards for people that are in it .
You also want to have someone that you could love, share your love with , spare time together to build a home and a family and the current challenges ,experiences is making you to be scare. You can certainly over all that and be able to build a great relationship that stand the test of time. The Bible says that if you are willing and obedience, you will eat the good of the day , so one of the good of the land that God has destine for us is the marriage institution that he created right from the beginning of the world from the time of Adam and Eve.
He knew that it is not good for a man to be able alone hence , he gave Eve to Adam. God is the creator of marriage and he will certainly help you to build a long lasting relationship and marriage if you are willing to follow the right principles and steps to building great relationship notwithstanding the ugly situation that we might have seen today in our family and society at large.
If the partners in a relationship are ready at all times to work on their relationship and determine in their minds that their relationship must work out for you .They must make share that there is positive communication at all times in all issues, all misunderstanding show be resolve on time , the partners in a relationship should be willing to make sacrifice and compromise where needed to meet the needs of their partners , they also have to forgive and be willing to share the needs of each other.
Partners in relationship must be willing to exhibit the principle of self sacrifice giving up self in order to meet the needs of the other person but that in itself should be reciprocal by both parties in a relationship, where it is one sided , it will bring about impatience and disappointment from the other party.