Expectations in Marriage
Mike San Martino
Whether you can voice them or not you entered marriage with expectations. You had a picture in your mind of what your marriage would look like. It may have reflected your parent’s marriage, or the marriages of close friends, your own hopes and dreams, or even TV and movie depictions of marriage. At some point, however, your expectations for marriage didn’t match reality. There was a gap between what you expected and the reality of your daily experience. When my wife and I were first married our first problem related to a difference in expectations over bedtime. Her parents always went to bed at the same time, and she expected...
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