Steem4nigeria Accelerator Contest Week 45: Marriage and it's Environs.

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What do you think makes a marriage successful?

I am surrounded by different married couples, my brothers and their wives, neighbours and friends. With my experiences, observations and little knowledge on what I see, I understand that two things makes marriages successful.

Communication and understanding is the root of every successful marriage. One of my aunt wants to leave her marriage soon because the husband is a kind of mute person and he hardly talk at all and his muteness has been killing her silently.

I was bordered to ask her why she married him knowing fully well that he is not a talking type, her response was that she taught she could change him. Marriage needs a cordial communication and if there is communication there will definitely be understanding.

How can couples improve communication in their marriage?

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I think it's very simple. One of the ways at which couples can improve communication in their Marriage is "closeness" spending time together is very important and as they spend time together no matter the range, it will help them talk in depth but a situation where the man is in the sitting room while the husband is in the bedroom can never improve communication.

Some couples goes to work and come back at night which I can understand that they don't have time because of the nature of their job but what happens to weekends? Infact even at work, the both should call each other atleast two times before they get home and then possibly talk before they both go to bed.

Discuss the importance of trust in a marriage.

Trust is the key in marriage. When the both parties lack trust then there is a big problem in the marriage. Lack of trust breaks homes and some marriages tear apart without coming back again because the trust on each other has been broken.

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Because of trust in a marriage, the woman or the wife can travel for long without having trust issues. Some husbands can try living their wives at home because they feel insecured. May be the wife has portrayed a habbit of lack of trust and that is making the man feel insecured whenever he is away.

How do couples healthily navigate conflicts?

This runs down to my first point on saying communication is very important in marriages, one of the ways couples healthily navigate conflicts is by having a quality communication. It is good to marry who you Love and the communication should be cordial so that when you have one or two issues you can easily solve it through communications between yourselves.

Do you consider the distance between spouses and cultural differences a problem in marriage? Why?

I consider anything distance wether in marriage or in relationship as a problem the distance between a married man and a married woman is a problem because it takes the grace of God to have trust in such marriage of distances.

Cultural differences seem to be a problem in marriages too but I consider cultural differences as something that can be handled. Love leads to marriage and love looks at nothing at all not even culture but when the two gets married, it is left for the couples to have understanding between themselves of their difference.

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