Related Scriptures
Marriage requires adjustment, as do all relationships. Skills and attitudes that can aid adjustment include a loving relationship, communication, common goals, sacrifice, repentance, forgiveness, reconciliation, and confidentiality.
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Areas of Concern |
Reasons Adjustment May Be Needed |
Scriptural Counsel |
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Finances |
Improper management, selfishness, debt, inflation, laziness, love of money, greed, envy, failure to communicate about financial goals |
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Reality and new responsibilities |
Physical separation due to school, work, and church Psychological separation due to the return to reality Demands on time |
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Sexual adjustment, or intimacy |
New experience, ignorance, selfishness, lust, lack of self-control, perversions, pregnancy |
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Extended family |
Overdependence, being too close to parents, competition for time, different traditions and lifestyles, demands of grandparents |
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Children |
Not wanting or postponing children, neglecting children, demands of children, adjustment to parenthood |