*LIFE IN A COURTSHIP RELATIONSHIP*
*Understanding courtship dynamics*
🔵Purpose: The partners must understand the purpose of the courtship. You cant be in courtship without knowing the purpose of the courtship. Courtship is for marriage not trial, sex or playing. Non focused relationships are dangerous
🔵Prayer: They must pray for themselves, in-laws, church leaders and their future. In courtship, there are many challenges and spiritual battles which must fought by prayer.
🔵Purity: There is an urge or temptation to sleep together and this should be controlled as much.
🔵Place of courtship: Here we speak of whether a courtship state is long distant or not. Long distance courtships have their own challenges which should be tackled with wisdom.
🔵Participation: Those in courtship must participate in their own relationship. If you dont do this, the relationship will definitely crumble.
🔵Planning: As you are together there should be a concrete plan in terms of lobola, wedding and the marriage life. Plan how you are going to finance for this.
🔵Period: Though there is no prescribed period of courtship, the period must not be long. Long courtship will give room to the devil.
🔵Premarital counselling: Premarital counselling is platform of one or more counselling sessions in counselling given to parties ready or preparing for marriage for guidance and resolving of some issues in courtship.
🔵Processes: These include family introductions, engagement, lobola payment and wedding planning.
Many young people exhaust themselves and anxiously await the wedding day without putting any thought into what comes after the wedding. There is need to plan ahead and seeing the world after the wedding.
John Museredzo is a marriage counsellor | pastor | author | leadership expert
Contacts: +263712154277, jhnmuseredzo@gmail.com, www.johnmuseredzo.blogspot.com
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