Truths About Marriage Most People Learn Too Late

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🗓️ 9 June 2026

⏱️ 9 minutes

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0:00.0	Thank you for listening to my morning monologue.
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0:26.2	at Dr.ora.com. All right. Found a great article published March 23rd, 2025 Mark Travers.
0:37.5	He talks about five hard truths about marriage.
0:41.1	Most people learn too late.
0:42.6	That's why I like people to get premarital counseling with an expert in premarital counseling
0:48.1	so that you don't learn the hard truths the hard way.
0:52.1	You're prepared.
0:58.0	So you're not frustrated and angry and shocked and surprised and annoyed. You know how to face the truths and lives. Okay. So number one, and I've said
1:09.2	this is zillion times, love is not enough.
1:14.8	It isn't.
1:16.5	That's a peculiar feeling that people describe in different ways and mostly don't understand it.
1:26.8	It's not really a feeling that comes and goes, and if it's coming and going with you,
1:30.7	then it's not love. Because love is a bunch of adoration, respect, admiration, and that doesn't,
1:40.5	excuse me, that doesn't come and go.
1:46.0	All right.
2:04.6	Many people think that as long as they feel this emotion, everything will fall into place, but love does not automatically solve differences in communication, personal values, long-term goals, know how to deal with, let's just say,
2:13.7	moods, challenges, illnesses, what really sustains a marriage is commitment. So shacking up is not commitment. And that's why those breakups are not only more than marriages,
2:21.2	if you shack up your chance of divorcing after a marriage goes up.
2:26.8	It's not a commitment mentality.
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