Ten Things You Should Discuss Before Marriage

Couples often assume things about each other before marriage only to realize later on that what they had assumed and not talked out has become a source of continuing conflict. Honeymoons can have rocky endings. The saying, “He/she will change after we are married” is very rarely true.

Janet Duccilli Daniel explains the importance of discussing reasons for marriage, honesty about oneself and one’s partner, household duties, relationship to families, communication styles, types of independence, sexual expression of love, children and the spiritual aspects of marriage from a very loving and practical perspective.

Updated in 2018.