| In case
nobody has told you, being engaged is stressful. Fun, exciting, new ... and stressful. In
fact, many couples have more arguments during their engagement than in their first years
of marriage. But who would dare discuss such ugliness at a time like this? After all,
you're engaged! You're walking hand-in-hand down the Yellow Brick Road, taking a left at
Wedded Bliss Lane and skipping toward the Land of Happily Ever After! You certainly don't
want your friends to hate your fiancé because you tell them the one-sided story about how
he refused to cut his ex-girlfriend from the invitation list, and you can't believe he
wouldn't do it just because you asked. Right? It's perfectly normal to have
difficulties, uneasy feelings, and yes, even arguments during your engagement period.
Although it's true that you should be generally happy, at ease, and looking forward to
marriage, you should also expect that there will be moments when conflict erupts between
you and your fiancé.
Plenty of couples fail to
acknowledge conflict during engagement out of fear that they are abnormal or experiencing
things beyond the usual parameters of engagement or newlywedhood. The unveiled truth,
however, is that most of the difficulties you and your fiancé may experience are
commonplace ... you've just been unprepared to deal with them at this time in your life
when you thought everything was supposed to come up roses. |
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