Successful Marriage

The most important ingredients two people can bring to a marriage are love and respect.Marriage often involves putting the other person's needs before your own and making difficult sacrifices for the sake of your spouse's happiness.It takes a great deal of love and respect to do these things.
      A third factor needed for a successful marriage is emotional maturity.The decisions you make when you are married affect not only yourself, but your spouse as well.What if a certain job you want involves moving across the country? whta if you want to have children, but your spouse doesn't if he or she wants them? The ability to compromise is one of the most important tools anyone can bring to a marriage.

       Another ingredient is that makes marriage successful is the ability to communicate effectively.Two people who are in a lifelong partnership must be able to tell each other how they are feeling and what they are thinking.As they do in all relationships,conflicts will invetitably arise in marriage.People who are in a good marriage able to resolve these conflicts through communication and respect. 

References: Sirikatha Sinhala                 Magazine