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Success Factors for Marriage - Coggle Diagram
Success Factors for Marriage
Failure factors
Early marriages/ unripe love
A hasty decision for marriage
Lack of experience + physical and mental maturity
Great age difference
Bitterness over petty manners
Lack of appreciation for the other
Differences over taste and preferences in different areas in life
Lack of observation in other marriages - what mistakes are being made
Training for marriage
Having a thorough knowledge of household duties
knowing hygiene, diet, dress, and the overall well being of the household
Learning healthy cooking
Learning hospitality
Learning how to engage and make guests feel at home
Learning how to care for a sick member of the family
Learning how to give practical edu to the children
Learning how to be neat
Taking courses of marriage and family
Base ideas of marriage off of scripture
Discuss with other Christian parents and learn from their experiences
Take time to analyze failed and successful marriages
Practical skills
Learning industry
Learn how to take initiative in house keeping
Learn how to maintain basic equipment
Learn how to change a car tire
Learn how to fix household things
Men should learn to provide a safe environment for his family
Learn finance skills
Learn gardening
Learn how to be a spiritual leader
Positive masculinity is being balanced in manliness and gentilness
Men should learn how to resolve conflicts
Dificulties of being unequally yoked in separate faiths
Practice of faith if impaired if one cannot support the other
Building principles are hard to establish
Lifestyle issues arise if there's no common understanding
Family worship and church worship becomes controversial
Difficult to develop family mission
Training children for God will be difficult
What happens when one member in an unbelieving marriage gets converted?
Paul says the believer must do their best to witness to the unbeliever and being patient with them
The converted must not force conversion nor break principle
By the spirit of love and meekness can you witness to the unbeliever
Warning flags in dating
Lack of boundaries
Course language
Can't hold secrets
Emotional outbursts
Shuts down when upset- won't talk
A liar
Get too close too soon
Disrespectful
Critical of you
Always demanding your services
Hates taking responcibility
Dislikes your friends
Dislikes your friends
Manipulative
Doesn't set time to share with you
Feeling uneasy in their presence