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Marriage in America is in trouble because Americans don\u2019t seem to know what it takes to be married over a lifetime.<\/p>\nMarriage in America is in trouble because Americans don\u2019t seem to know what it takes to be married over a lifetime.<\/p>\n
We\u2019re great at getting married.\u00a0 As a matter of fact, television is filled with shows about picking out dresses, and getting married, and brides gone wild, and a thousand other variations on the whole \u201cgetting married\u201d idea.\u00a0 Few of us really understand what it takes to be married over a lifetime.<\/strong><\/p>\n There are a lot of symptoms that people point to for the reasons marriages break up.\u00a0 My good friend Dave Ramsey says that the number one reason marriages break up in America is over money fights and disagreements.\u00a0 And with my experience counseling with couples I would tend to agree with that.<\/p>\n But I hear other experts talk about sexual infidelity, lack of communication, lack of shared values, and other important issues.<\/p>\n But if you take all of those symptoms (money fights, sexual infidelity, lack of communication) and really look at them closely, here is the conclusion, at least, I\u2019ve come to.\u00a0 The number one reason why marriages\u00a0 in America break up is because you\u2019re not on the same page<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Have you ever heard that phrase?\u00a0 Maybe it\u2019s at work and you say, \u201cYou know we\u2019re really not on the same page here on this project.\u201d\u00a0 It\u2019s true also in sports.\u00a0 Football has a playbook.\u00a0 You run the plays.\u00a0 You have to be on the same page to run the same plays.\u00a0 The truth of the matter is, that\u2019s true in all\u00a0 relationships.<\/p>\n The question is, how do you get on the same page and stay on the same page?<\/strong> That\u2019s equally as important because once you get on the same page, it\u2019s work to stay there over a lifetime.<\/p>\n Ask yourself these questions:\u00a0 If you and your spouse were on the same page, would you be talking more?\u00a0 Would you be laughing more?\u00a0 Would you have more money if you were on the same page when it comes to your finances and particularly your philosophy of debt?<\/p>\n How about parenting?\u00a0 Wouldn\u2019t that be easier, better, more productive if you were on the same page?\u00a0 We all know that children love dividing parents and pitting them against one another.\u00a0 How can they do that?\u00a0 You\u2019re not on the same page.<\/p>\n One of the things Paula and I worked hard at on our \u201cMaking Marriage Fun Again\u201d<\/a> Live Event, is to help people get on the same page and know how to stay on the same page.\u00a0 Really that\u2019s the key to an amazing marriage: getting and staying on the same page.\u00a0 Here is our promise for those who attend our \u201cMaking Marriage Fun Again\u201d Live Events.\u00a0 We guarantee that before you leave this event, you and your spouse will be on the same page.<\/strong> Staying on the same page afterward will be up to you.\u00a0 But you will have new tools and motivations to make it happen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Marriage in America is in trouble because Americans don\u2019t seem to know what it takes to be married over a lifetime. We\u2019re great at getting married.\u00a0 As a matter of fact, television is filled with shows about picking out dresses, and getting married, and brides gone wild, and a thousand other variations on the whole … Continue reading “Number One Reason Why Marriages in America Break Up”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"series":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1735"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1735"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=1735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}