There are so many things that you don’t think about when you are going to get married. Even things as simple as where your medicine will go, in the bathroom or the kitchen? In class there were some questions that we answered about when we get married. These questions are very legit and things that you should think about but they never really came to my mind as important. I think that even the little things are good to talk about when you are getting married. Marriage consists of a lot of adjustments. Also, this week I learned the difference between dating, courtships, engagement, and marriage. Dating is when you go out with lots of people seeing what qualities and attributes you like until you find someone where they have them all. This leads into courtship where you exclusively date. This is where you prepare to want to marry them. Courtship is a trial to see if you are a good fit together. Next if you decided leads to engagement. Engagement is serious and taking your relationship so far to know this is the person you want to spend the rest of your life with. Lastly, marriage. Committed for the rest of your life. J Something to realize with these stages is the fact that you should not slide but take steps. You can’t just slowly go from dating to courting, or courting to engaged. These things are definitely different and take a step to get to. One thing I would like to touch on is marital satisfaction. The most common years for divorce are between years 2-5. I hope that families can prevail through this time and be happy. By our choices we can change the statistics and keep going strong.