The challenges vary from person to person and couple to couple.
Clearly a couple who has lived together for 5 years would a different experience than a couple who had never lived together or had sex.
Among the basic challenges is (choosing) the "right mate" for oneself.
This would entail {sharing the same values}, wanting the same things for the marriage, naturally agreeing how to obtain those things, and last but not least having a mutual depth of love and desire for one another.
If any of the above are not in place it's bound to be a rocky marriage.
Like attracts like and opposites attract divorce attorneys.
Spenders and savers clash, neat freaks and slobs drive each other crazy, low sexual libido paired with someone who has a high sexual libido is likely to lead to frustration or possible infidelity.
Couples who naturally agree on the major things in life and want the same things for the marriage tend to be happier and stay together longer. Who knew?!
It's "differences" and "deal breakers" that lead to divorce.
I especially like what dashingscorpio wrote and so would like to add to it:
I'm not married and have never been married but plan to one day. Over the years I've been witness to some amazing marital disasters and only two or three successful marriages (in which the couple are just as happy now as they were on their wedding day). In truth, I think that there are two very strong proponents that will challenge any and every marriage:
1) Money
2) Children
With money as a challenge in a marriage, it's usually a lack of it. Rarely do you find that married couples have a problem coping wih too much money, except perhaps in Hollywood which then leads to divorce any how. As dashingscorpion put it, you can't have couples clashing with one another, such as one being a spendthrift and the other a miser. Most likely, the miser is going to file for divorce as the money will soon run out. I had a friend who became addicted to gambling and so was divorced by his wife.
In another scenario, one partner wanted children and the other did not. But because the wife loved the husband so much, she agreed to have just one baby by him. In time, she didn't take on motherhood as she thought she could and so ran out on him leaving him and the baby.
I have other stories as well, but these two factors seem to be marriage killers. Perhaps my word isn't worth its salt, being that I lack the experience, but you be the judge! In parting, I'd like to say this, in the words of Sheryl Crow:
It's not having what you want
It's wanting what you've got
Without a doubt, the biggest challenges of being in a marriage "Your wife is an angry yell machine with no off switch."
by Annie 13 years ago
Should a married couple stay together for thesake of the children, and keep the family unit...together.
by kirstenblog 14 years ago
Marriages hit rough spots, sometimes long ones too. Put two separate individuals in an intimate relationship and arguments/fights are normal, eventually, even if the love is still strong. The frequency of arguments may increase gradually, or the length of arguments will increase. A person...
by Brad Masters 10 years ago
The ultimate problem with two people wanting to have a loving long term relationship is MARRIAGE.Marriage is an implied vague and ambiguous contract that has been used forever. When the couple in the marriage decide to leave the marriage this implied marriage contract is useless. Divorce then...
by LS 6 years ago
What is Marriage?
by Alem Belton 7 years ago
Why is the divorce rate so high in America? It usually seas saws every years but always remains at 50% or more. Is divorce the new fad, like having an adopted a foreign child or a owning a tiny dog? I didn't get the memo.
by Tina Boomerina 8 years ago
Why don't people in their 20s and 30s get married anymore?In the 70s, when I was in my twenties, men and women got married and, usually, wanted to have families. What has happened to change that?
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