Marriage and Children
When children enter the marriage, the couple relationship changes a bit and not always for the good. Adding a new baby to the family means there is now more laundry, more groceries to buy, more food to prepare, more living space required, and more time required to care for that new infant. While many couples willingly share these new … Keep Reading → responsibilities, that is not always the case and often the burden of the new child falls to one parent, often the mother. Many new fathers unknowingly resent a new child for taking up all his partner’s time and energy. Adding a child to the family mix can be overwhelming for young couples with few resources and can lead to problems in the marriage. When the children are grown children from previous relationships, building good relationships with them is like treading through a minefield of potential problems. Few couples are able to blend families without there being problems relating to general discipline, friends, room tidiness and school issues. Explore the challenging relationships between children and married parents in this Hub.
