Thread: Marriage course

My spouse and I both think that a marriage course would be a good idea.
After we have done that one we are thinking seriously of signing up on a "Breathing course", and then to follow that up with with an "Eating and Drinking" course.
Unfortunately in our days there was no "Sex course", we simply had to feel our way through that one!
I am sure that down the line sometime, some other useful courses will pop up that we can sign up for.
We are even thinking of signing up on a "Train the Trainer" course but we are having difficulties finding the prescribed list of criteria required.
Perhaps doing a Uni degree of "Would you like fries with that", could help considerably.
Regards
Glen

Originally Posted by Chops

Married twice,, Divorced twice,,

I think I'll sit this one out

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Good post Tombie..........I posted this in the wrong spot.

Originally Posted by Tombie

How can there be a course?

I still can't even understand the freakin subject matter

Has to be a University course, I think!!!

Originally Posted by V8Ian

A marriage course? For Pete's sake, what do you get if you pass? Cert I in Yes Dear, No Dear, Three Bags Full Dear?
I feel a more proactive approach by these course facilitators would be to produce an owner's manual and/or Rave disc for Wife Model XYZ etc.

What happens if you fail

Originally Posted by Davo

I used to think marriage jokes were stupid . . . until I got married. I love them now.

I wonder if the best marriage course would involve the hopeful groom sitting down with several old married men, lots of talking, and alcohol. But this might just put him off, as after all, getting married is a bit like joining the Army, but do they give you counselling before you do that?

If that happened nobody would go through with it...

But then I'm married twice and divorced twice too so I might be biased. Bachelor herd for me.

Originally Posted by numpty

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X3 :-/

Thanks for your thoughts. The trusty aulro sense of humour is coming through pretty strong.

Just to fill in the picture of why I asked...

I've been married 9 years (5 kids). We didn't do a course beforehand though I knew of them. I figured we just like each other and were committed so we'd make it work no matter what came up. Going OK so far.

We did a weekend course a couple of years ago that talked through dealing with disagreements, stonewalling, and a bunch of other stuff. A lot of the course just told us stuff we knew (or had known but forgotten about), but it was really helpful to take the time to talk it through together. Some of it actually helped us figure out how to better relate to our boys as it was just general interpersonal stuff.

I'm also an Anglican minister (delighted to hear someone commending the Anglican church ). I'm thinking of running a similar course to what my wife and I did. Curious as to what response it'd get. The general response from here tally's with what I've encountered from most blokes, 'marriage course, what's the point?' Most women seem to think the idea of a day talking with their husband about how their marriage is going is a good idea

On a side note, my Nan died last week, 98, survived by her husband of 72 years That's a loooong time.