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First comes love, then comes marriage, and then comes the baby carriage. Sounds nice, but the reality is that more than fifty percent of marriages end in divorce.

Why? Is love not enough? Love …... Everybody wants it and at some point, everybody believes and feels they have it.  When feeling this way, people believe that because they have "it", their relationship will be different; their relationship will weather the storm. They believe they will understand each other; they will meet each other’s needs and therefore will be together forever, they won’t end up a statistic. Their relationship will be nothing like their parents. The fact of the matter is people live what they learn. So if your parents didn't practice conscious communication such that they were able to meet each other’s needs, then changes are you probably don't have the necessary skills needed to enable you to meet your spouse’s needs. When our needs are not met and we don't know how to get them met, we begin to look at the other person and reason that we have chosen the wrong person. We believe our mate is broken, and that the two of us are not right for each other.  We think the solution is to end the relationship. So the relationships ends with the mistaken believe that the next time, it will be different, better because the next relationship will be with a person who understands us with similar interest and desires. The cycle continues.

Here at Family Matters of KC we teach skills needed to enable people to avoid Marrying a Jerk so that they can, Get The Love They Want, which will help them to practice the 8 Habits of a Successful Marriage then they will be prepared to navigate marriage and put an end to the rising numbers of divorce.