Pre-Marriage Education - No Myth Marriages

What is it about commitment that makes successful marriages last. Why are the vows relevant? How commitment facilitates closeness.

After this session you will know how marriages are different to co-habiting relationships, why your marriage relationship will have more potential to last, and the benefits of sticking it out beyond the challenges (which will pass).

What does love really mean. How do you know you are loved?

After this session you will be able to tell your partner what you love about them and what you will do to show you love them.

The benefits to making a shift to team thinking. The unmatchable power of unity.

After this session you will understand what communication does in your marriage.

An overview of how to design the marriage you want.

Since the two of you are the most important tools for a successful marriage, let you and your partner discover what really makes you each tick. A common cause of divorce is having a lack of understanding about what is important to the other person and thereby crushing the other's values unknowingly.

After this session you will know what each of your top 5 values are, that is: what is most important to you in your life and what is most important to your partner.

This session will help you to describe to your partner what you want in life.

By the end of the session you will have agreed on the goals you have individually and as a couple.

Create the vision and culture you want for your marriage.

After this session you will have a vision statement unique to your marriage and a list of cultural aspects you want in your relationship.

An overview of the common types of expectations we bring to marriage

We get our expectations from what we have seen and heard. After this section you will better understand what you and your partner have experienced in the past, what you have seen of other peoples' marriages, so you can decide together what marriage is going to mean for you.

This is one of the most significant exercises you can do to set your marriage up for success. You will find out what your love language(s) are and those of your partner, and will understand how to work with them to keep that loving feeling alive in your relationship long term.

After this session you be aware of and will have agreed on a list of the important and not-so-important traditions that you each have in your families (and friend groups).

This section will take you through an exercise where you think of the roles and chores that will need to be taken care of in your marriage, and agree on who will do what. You will also learn how to have a conversation when the roles need to change due to changes in your routine.

This lecture consists of two small sections - one to make sure you both have talked about children, and the other on how to talk about expectations in a realistic way.

Some couples struggle to bring up the topic of physical intimacy or to talk through their expectations. This section gives couples the chance to talk about sex in a few different ways.

Complete this lecture to learn all you need to know about how to please your man or how to please your woman.

Going outside of your marriage zone can be dangerous for your relationship. Learn why and what to agree on now to protect your most prized relationship in advance.

If you were a company, how would you manage and share your resources? After this session you will have agreed on  some monetary policies for your marriage.

Talking about money doesn't just go so far as spending and saving - learn how to talk about each of the facets of money that will arise during your marriage, before they cause issues.

You may already have a budget agreed together, or you may not. After this session you will not only know what you have available to spend on each of the things that achieve your dreams, you will know more about how you want to structure your accounts too.

How to become a better a team by using your differences to your joint advantage.

In this section, learn how your brain makes shortcuts without you even realising, and how that can get you into trouble. When you are problem solving with your partner, here are some ways to help you approach it with a more objective point of view.

This section may surprise you and challenge any preconceptions you have about forgiveness.

After this section, you will have improved your relationship communication skills.

In this section you will go through an example complex relationship problem from start to finish. As you work through it, you'll receive coaching along the way to help you. After this section you will know the tools and be able to have a turn resolving a complex issue in your own relationship.

The final lecture in this program, you will learn another simple problem solving technique for simpler relationship problems, and a last golden tip for maintaining your best marriage.