Can Taking Up a Course Help Your Marriage?
Do you need certain skills to make a marriage work? Or is it all about love and trust? According to Diane Sollee, founder of the Coalition for Marriage, Family and Couples Education, LLC (CMFCE), marriage is a skill-based proposition. You need certain skills to make a marriage work. In an interview, this is what Sollee said, explaining the concept:
It’s the idea that marriage is skill-based. Like football. The way we have it set up now a couple gets married and we send them out there to win based on “love and commitment.” That’s like asking a football team to win on team spirit — “for the Gipper” — but not letting them learn any plays or signals. No skills at all — just win on love. The basis for the smart marriage® concept is exciting new research that finds that what is different about the marriages that make it — that go the distance and stay happy — are behaviors or skills. And even more exciting they are simple skills that anyone can learn.
Now, Sollee talks about learning. And that is why CMFCE’s campaign, Smart Marriages® talks about courses on making a marriage smart and happy. Now, these courses re not like therapy where you have to talk about your problems. Instead, these courses hand over skills that you can employ in your relationship when you are at home.
Wondering if your marriage will remain romantic after such a course? Here’s what Sollee has to say about that:
It’s the most romantic thing you can do! If you find someone you want to spend the rest of your life with — share everything from the bathroom to your bank account and babies with — then taking a course to learn everything the experts know about how to keep your love alive is as romantic as it can get. Walk hand-in-hand into one of these courses and tell me it isn’t romantic.
Do you think you are ready for a course?
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