By Zuko Komisa
Things that make a marriage work.
It’s a new year, and new ideas are always helpful to add more sparkle to you marriage, especially if you love your spouse.
Marriages require effort, dedication, and love, but respect is also necessary for them to be successful and truly happy.
It takes work to create a loving, respectful marriage. Both partners must contribute in some way.
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Point of View spoke to Nhlanhla and Magauta spoke about some of the key things that married couples need to pay attention to in the new year that make a marriage work
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“A marriage must have values”
“Values are there to control us, tthey are there to lead us and to putt a certain structure on how we solve conflict and how we talk to each other, and how we raise our children.”
“Understand why you need conflict”
“The purpose of conflict is to remind you that you are not on the same page about something, and if we approach conflict like that we will solve it quickly. This make conflict not a bad thing but an indicator that we are not in the same understanding.”
“Know your person and have no need to change them”
“One of the things about good marriages that works is when couple have an ability to recognise who their person is and not having a need to change who they are. However there are certain things in all of us that do not belong in marriage. Marriage has a voice, and it uses your partner to speak out.”
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