History of Marriage & Marriage Enrichment & marriage preparation.
Building a successful marriage can be compared to building the house of your dreams. It is wise to study HISTORY to learn what kind of housing has worked best for families (tents were an improvement at one point in history)...and what kind of marriage you think you want to live in (Does any woman you know want to be part of a harem?).
It may be useful to study HISTORY to learn what skills and habits have actuallly proven to serve as a suitable "foundation" for life-long marriage. Here is short course to help us get started > The Evolution of Marriage over the last 4,000 years
Here are specific efforts that have tried to help couples do better at marriage, beginning in the 1940s:
History of Marriage Enrichment
History of Christian Family Movement (CFM)
History of Better Marriages (A.C.M.E.)
HISTORY of Retrouvaille (for troubled marriages)
All these efforts (above) to assist married couples has motivated those of us who have been working on marriage preparation programs to help couples seeking to be married in the Church...... > Marriage Preparation