Based solely on my own personal experience and anecdotal evidence that I come across, it seems that the first year of marriage is often the hardest. It certainly was for me.
Keeping in mind that Eeees and I weren’t strangers when we got married (we dated/were engaged for a total of three years), I can tell you that we fought more in the first year of our marriage than we did in the next nineteen combined.
Fortunately, even though we were young when we got married, we were both mature enough to understand that despite the fights that we were having, we both wanted to be married to each other and therefore, we worked at our marriage. B”H by the time the first anniversary rolled around, we managed to “break each other in” and have been very happy ever since.
Can some of the couples who divorce make a go at it if they were more concerned toward each other? Certainly. But on the other hand, there are certainly cases where one party puts on a good face during dating and then reveals themselves to be a monster only after the wedding is completed.
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