Expectations and Assumptions
Discussing your marriage expectations and those of your partner's is a crucial step in committing oneself to a lifetime of intimate and independent living together. Expectations and assumptions you hold about married life shape your perceptions of how you and your partners will act and relate towards each other. During the courtship period it is not uncommon for couples to look at their planned future together through rose colored glasses and share their romantic dreams and idealistic expectations. Read more!
Family of Origin
Relationships with our parents, siblings and our interaction with them both positively and negatively have produced tapes. A tape is a situation or event in which is committed to our behavioral memory, either conscious or unconscious, in which we have a habitual response. We respond in a manner that is familiar when a similar situation is encountered. These tapes, although at times seem positive can actually be very destructive. Tapes can be either compatible or incompatible with our mate's. Read more!
