056 Marriage: What You Need to Know Before Saying “I Do”

marriagePastors Lewis and Stephanie Tucker talk about the keys to a successful marriage. Pastor Lewis Tucker is the author of the book “The Two Will Become One Flesh: What Every Couple Needs to Know Before and After They Say “I Do.”

During their 12 years in ministry, officiating weddings and providing premarital and marital counseling, they discovered that the couples with the most problems in their marriage are those who have not received the requisite skills to successfully merge two lives into one.

The Tuckers have been blissfully married for almost 18 years and is passionate about helping other couples experience what they have.

Pastor Stephanie Tucker talks to wives about the true meaning of “submission” and what it looks and feels like.

This segment is filled with tons of Pastor Lewis Tucker’s marital nuggets of wisdom.  Here are just a few:

  • The world would be a better place if every husband treated his wife like the queen she was meant to be
  • If we all focused less on our careers and more on each other. If we were more concerned about our families than our portfolios… our kids would be happier, well adjusted, and our marriages would last.
  • If husbands treat their wives better emotionally, wives will treat their husbands better sexually
  • If husbands never stop dating their wives, they will always have a wife and a girlfriend

It’s been said that marriage doesn’t come with a set of instructions well not any more because the Tucker’s book, The Two Will Become One Flesh: What Every Couple Needs to Know Before and After They Say ” I Do “is meant to be an instructional guide for couples who are engaged, considering marriage, or already married to equip them with the tools to be successful. It even includes an appendix with instructions on how to plan a wedding service.  The book is available at amazon.com.

007 Life After The Affair

Dr. Shane Perrault, also known as “Dr. Shane” is a leading Psychologist, Author, Speaker and Founder of the African American Marriage Counseling Organization and is a highly sought after Life Coach and Speaker on issues relating to relationships, marriages and ADHD.

Dr. Shane shares his views about infidelity, what it is, why it occurs, and most importantly what happens after an affair is revealed. He talks about the three stages the hurt partner will experience after an affair is revealed.

1.  Atone – Involves the reactions (emotional, physical, neurological) that will occur after learning about the affair.

2. Atune – The hurt partner reviews his or her options to stay or leave the relationship.

3. Attach – The couple reconnects to start the process of rebuilding their relationship.

Dr. Shane states that the hurt partner is the only one who should make the decision to stay or leave the relationship and the worse thing the unfaithful partner can do is try to rush the decision-making and ask them to “get over it.”

Visit Dr. Shane at http://africanamericanmarriagecounseling.com/