With the groom in his tuxedo and the bride in her beautiful wedding dress, not much thought is given to the prospect of divorce. No one wants to think about the more dubious side of domestic relationships, but a failure to give due consideration to how the relationship will work after the wedding is over can doom a marriage before it even gets started in the first place.
Some people dread the thought of talking about how the relationship will work once the wedding is over. They are afraid that it will divert attention away from having a beautiful wedding, or that such discussions are the domain of marriage counselors once the relationship is in trouble. But the divorce rate is now double what it was just twenty of thirty years ago, and it shows no sign of dropping off any time soon. Problems that occur during a marriage can dwarf those of having a wedding in the first place. Bills from the wedding itself can be a drain on finances. The husband may tend to doze off whenever the wife starts to talk about how her day went, or the husband may come home and dump all of his troubles from work on the wife. Even something as small as a donation to a charity can start a big fight. The couple may soon realize that they can never duplicate those dizzy feelings like they had when they first fell in love. If there are children involved, the consequences can be even more drastic.
Couples should learn not to dread talking about how their marriage will work after the wedding is over. The drastic rise in the divorce rate has proven that couples need to pay more attention to their domestic lives after the wedding rather than focusing on the wedding dress.