Author	Thread: Lower the odds of divorce!
TravisjustTravis View Profile History	Lower the odds of divorce! Posted : 26 Jan, 2013 10:55 PM Most people want a strong marriage, so they pray that GOD will strengthen there marriage. Although the Bible tell us to cast all our cares upon the LORD the Bible also tell us that faith without works is dead. By the looks of thing somebody is not doing something right because Christians are still getting divorced, so what can be done to strengthen your marriage? (Right now I just want to focus on some interesting facts 43% of first time marriages end in divorce within 15 years�I think this is about the statistic if your first marriage occurs before age 25 However if you wait until after the age of 25, there is a 35% chance your marriage will end in divorce or separation (so if you wait until your 25 year old or older, then your marriage might get about an 8% bonus chance) And if you wait longer the percentage of marriage survival goes up to 65% (that�s about a 30% bonus chance of survival from when you were 25)�but the science channel did not tell me how old a person needs to be to receive that bonus! I know that these are only statistics, and statistics do not always work in life. But I know that sometimes it is easy to think that marriage is a young mans game, but it appears that people tend to blossom with time! I am not against young people! Life circumstances seem to mature people, so you can think of it this way �the cream rises to the top" What is so special about 25 "If you marry before the age of 25, you may have a lack of life experience and communication skills, low incomes, and are getting married for the wrong reasons. Waiting until you are at least 25 years old gives your brain a chance to reach the point of intellectual maturity, also known as the "age of reason." Also remember some 21 year olds may have reached this "age of reason" and ther is proably some 40 year olds that have not reached the "age of reason" (look up phrases such as "lowering your odds for divorce" and phrases such as that for more information that you can do to "gird your faith" <because faith without works is dead>) Post Reply
CuriousGeorge View Profile History	Lower the odds of divorce! Posted : 31 Jan, 2013 05:49 PM yay lets all get married at 40 and live happily ever after :applause: Post Reply
TravisjustTravis View Profile History	Lower the odds of divorce! Posted : 22 Mar, 2013 05:29 PM Only 23 percent of couples say they work together to plan their financial lives. And couples tend to give wildly differing answers on big money questions, such as when they expect to retire, about 30 percent of the time. No wonder Parade's 2008 survey on marriage found that money was the leading cause of marital fights. If I remember corectly someone said that in the new testament JESUS talked more about material possesions than HE did about heaven and hell combined. Also did you know that some people plan more for there vacation than they do about there retirment. The amount of financial illiteracy is astounding. Let me share a tip, if your planning on getting married and you like to keep records of everything and your spouce has a difficult time remembering to balance the checkbook...Then you guys might have a difficult time concerning money. So financial issues are deffinatly something that you want to talk about before you get married. Post Reply
beulah707 View Profile History	Lower the odds of divorce! Posted : 29 Dec, 2013 08:03 AM I remember going to a special message for singles, and the pastor said that we need to be happily single before we can be happily married. Looking at married couples now, I could truly see that it "he who finds a wife finds favor in the Lord." because, (1) it is really a difficult calling, praise God for those who remain married (2) it takes constant surrender to the Lord (3) even if we are already Christians, we don't automatically come to a point where we really understand forgiveness. I completely believe that it takes 2 forgivers to make a relationship work. Because nobody is perfect. Nice thread, though, brother! Post Reply
View Profile History	Lower the odds of divorce! Posted : 29 Dec, 2013 07:42 PM Amen. Yes, it takes two to forgive each other and live together and work on the relationship, every eay. Post Reply