Courtship is an important phase in relationships.
Since marriage is not a joke, this period is crucial and not a time for playing around. It’s a period that precedes marriage where both of them make use of the opportunity to figure out if it’s going to work between them or not.
- Understand your partner’s life goals and support them to achieve their dreams. You both should have marriage goals too you must work to achieve.
- Meet both parents and family members. This is very important during courtship. You need to know the family you are marrying into because they will become your family too.
- Have arguments. There’s no relationship without arguments. But have healthy arguments.
- Get to know and meet each other’s friends. You must know the crowd your future husband or wife hangs out with.
- Talk about money and how you will run your finances. Don’t take this for granted during courtship. Money troubles have destroyed many marriages.
- Explore each other’s sexuality. Even if you don’t want to have sex before marriage, you should at least discuss it. Find out if you both are sexually compatible to avoid heartbreaking stories later.
- Apologize and mean it. Trash out issues and forget about them. Don’t take your partner for granted during courtship.
- Show your bad habits. Don’t pretend to be who you are not because you want to marry someone. Let your partner know your strengths and weaknesses.
- Disagree over issues but maintain your stand. Let your partner know that you are not a push over politely.
- Courtship period is the perfect time to find out your partner’s views on domestic violence, abuse and divorce. Don’t assume anything. If their views are different from yours and you can’t cope, take a walk early before you tie the knot
culled from: Kate
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