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Is it commong to get "bored" in a marriage?

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I ask this not about myself but about married couples. Learning about love my whole life including marriage I was taught that as the time goes on sometimes you feel bored. Its why people sometimes divorce because they think the love is gone. But in fact it hasn't gone anywhere, its just you've gotten so use to it that you don't realize its there.

I don't worry about it in my soon to be marriage because I talked to my fiance about it and we both know stuff like that will happen and that we just have to find news to keep that spark going. As it is we are ina long distance relationship and we know that "bordem" factor can set in around the year mark. But we have agreed to be one forever.

Especially because where she if from there is no law for divorce and they do not believe in it anyways. Which is wonderful for me because I am never for divorce either.
 

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Is it commong to get "bored" in a marriage?

It is absolutely very common to get bored sometimes in marriage.
It is also common for a person to be tempted to get out of a marriage at times for many reasons
It is also common to think selfish thoughts
It is very common for many troubles and trying times to get you depressed.

Marriage for a life time is going to present you with a LOT of adversities.

The good news is that with our God we can get through these times and enjoy the blessings that God has in store for us. You and your partner do your part and don’t worry about God doing His part; He always does as He is always faithful.
 
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I ask this not about myself but about married couples. Learning about love my whole life including marriage I was taught that as the time goes on sometimes you feel bored. Its why people sometimes divorce because they think the love is gone. But in fact it hasn't gone anywhere, its just you've gotten so use to it that you don't realize its there.

Even in a good marriage, you are likely to experience stress, boredom, or frustration, and a range of other negative emotions during your lifetime. But there is also joy, excitement, satisfaction, contentment, and many other good things you will experience.

I was watching a foreign TV show once where a woman opposed her daughter dating this guy because she had told him she wanted her to have a man who never made her cry, and some situation involving the man that wasn't something he'd done on purpose made her cry. So she wanted them to break up. I thought that was really stupid. Is there any man whose been married more than a few years who hasn't made his wife cry over something. Even if the man is a decent guy all the time, a woman's propensity to cry can go up or down.

It is really important to have a commitment to marriage that goes way beyond how you feel at the moment. It is good to keep our Lord Jesus' words in mind about divorce and adultery, and the Lord's commands to Paul on the topic. If something isn't good in the marriage, you work on it, instead of getting a divorce.

I don't worry about it in my soon to be marriage because I talked to my fiance about it and we both know stuff like that will happen and that we just have to find news to keep that spark going. As it is we are ina long distance relationship and we know that "bordem" factor can set in around the year mark. But we have agreed to be one forever.

Are you planning on living long distance after getting married? Why would you do that?

Especially because where she if from there is no law for divorce and they do not believe in it anyways. Which is wonderful for me because I am never for divorce either.

Is she from the Philippines? I know of three men who met a Filippina on Facebook with a child, one of them on this forum. One of the men said the woman asked him for money to help her get an annulment. He had already made announcements on Facebook about his relationship, then realized something wasn't right about it and broke up.

You may want to meet in person and check things out. Also, in some countries you aren't considered engaged if you don't ask her parents for her hand.
 
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Well yeah I guess I wans't asking the question as if I felt bored. I was just getting peoples views since I hear alot of people say they get bored.

Even in a good marriage, you are likely to experience stress, boredom, or frustration, and a range of other negative emotions during your lifetime. But there is also joy, excitement, satisfaction, contentment, and many other good things you will experience.......It is really important to have a commitment to marriage that goes way beyond how you feel at the moment
Oh I agree. And thats something me and my fiance discussed. We both realize marriages are more then just happy loving feelings all the time. We will be as strong as possible and never divorce since we don't believe in it since we both been hurt by people in the pass who decided to quit on us rather then stay commited. My fiance is very strong to because her mother basically taught her since shes a pastors daugther.

Actually in her country there is no divorce. If you are even caught eyeballing another woman in ways you shouldn't often the village men will, to be blunt, gang up on you and cut off your manhood. Well it was more commong in the 80s. Now sure of how much that goes on now. But they are very family oriented people.

I literally had to talk to about 40 family members of hers before anyone would bless me. They wanted to make sure I was legit and that I would not make her cry one tear. Now they all love me! Of course they said if I wasn't disabled they would want me there because they don't like that americans divorce. I told them they have no worries about that with me.

I explained to them the women in my past who literally abused me and yet I stayed with them even though we were not married. Then I told them how the last women I was with was terminally ill and wanted me to leave so I wouldn't see her die. But I refused because even while in a relationship, theres no reason to seperate unless you truly feel you don't work well together.

Are you planning on living long distance after getting married? Why would you do that?
Well only for 9-12 months after we marry. Not because we want to mind you. But because once I come back I have to file for a spousal visa which takes 9-12 months for her embassy to approve so she can come here. Thats why I am marrying her there and we are having a long honeymoon so that bond that is created will hold us over until we are back together. Although if Gods provides I want to try and take another rip there to be with her for 21 more days (the limit as a visitor).

You may want to meet in person and check things out. Also, in some countries you aren't considered engaged if you don't ask her parents for her hand.
lol (not at you) but its funny because I just got asked this elsewhere. See my reply here:
http://www.christianforums.com/t7653739-34/#post61356079

Being a former hacker (which obviosuly I don't do know because of the ethics of it) I dug deep into her past. Grant it she gave me access to everything she had such as FB, EMail, bank accounts. Even her dating sites she tried. There is no evidence of lies at all. I don't even feel weird at all. Which is great because the past woman I was with I always felt stuff was being hidden.

Actually in order to engage (her mothers a pastor at a non-denom church), I sent my fiance and her mother (dad is gone) a video showing her our house and at the end asking for her hand in marriage! :) Because they have a unstable wifi connection they watched it at a webcafe. Alot of family members were gathered around and loved it, especially when I asked for her hand in marriage. They said thats how it should be!

Mind you before this I got grilled by lots of her family to make sure I was real to because at the one site she was at, alot of them men lied to her and just wanted sex from her they found out. So it awhile to make sure we were both real. I know my fiance says she used to work in Manila but she said she had to leave because when she was webcafes almost all the women (prostitues or not) were on websites scamming men. She found it upsetting because she didn't want everyone thinking that how filipino women are, since alot of filipino women are truly loyal, loving and honest.

She also mentioned most of the scammers are catholic because thats the main religion there. NOt that she said she had anything wrong with their denomination. Its just she never heard of a scammer that wasn't one (or a hooker). As you can see in that other posts theres alot more going to that made me sure we are meant to be together. Fasting, praying, talking to others, invesitgating, blessings from God and so on. This is stuff that never happened with my fast relationships. If anything everyone told me not to trust the past women. I got no blessings, no answered prayers or anything with them.

Actually speaking of honesty she did tell me when we first met she had sex once with a filipino man who she was engaged to. he made her feel loved and things got out of hand and they had sex, then he left her because he wanted her virginity taken away. She felt bad but I confesse to her I made the same mistake.
 
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Yes - if you live with someone for a number of years, you can become "bored".

I've been married almost 40 years now - all human relationships have some weaknesses. Even the great ones.

Sometimes I think that people are influenced by media images of "happily ever after".

Obviously this isn't one humdred per cent true.

But remember - this "boredom" will happen even if we switched marriage partners over & over again. Marriage is a commitment - to help your spouse. If we put energy in encouraging our spouse - telling her how much you love her - every day - being considerate, helping with household tasks - always being considerate, never forgetting Valentines Day or birthdays -

These things go a long way to over come "boredom".

I'm sure you know this already.

Boredom may be "normal" - but being your spouses biggest cheerleader and helpmate makes a difference.

:)
 
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Marriage is what you make it :)

People often think that marriage is not as much work as it really is. If you both really work at it and constantly find new ways to connect and find things to do together and share hobbies as well as have individual interests it is much harder to become bored or be tempted to stray.

This is my opinion. My marriage starting getting bored around the second year when we both just got overly comfortable and stopped trying and fell into the same daily routine. Luckily we realized what was happening and sought counseling and learned new ways to connect with each other :)

Hope this helped! :)
 
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Life gets boring sometimes, as does marriage which feels the whole gamut of emotions. Boredom in marriage could be a wakeup call however that one or both of you have stagnated in their lives. Take time to find your passion for life and each other.
 
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Marriage is what you make it :)

People often think that marriage is not as much work as it really is.

Marriage is a JOB-a Full-time , Life Time, Life Changing-JOB...

Love is a decision followed by committment. Marriage is the ultimate committment 2 human beings make.

Ever get bored with your job? You bet you do! The key is to keep setting goals and to honor the committment. "How can I enhance his/her life today" is something you have to work at until it becomes a habit. If you get this down-it will be the best form of joy and most rewarding things you will ever do..

The new does wear off...and it will happen, but then one goes back to the committment, honors the friendship and it's new again..Repeat process...for life....
 
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I think I have gotten bored with myself and possibly thought I was bored in marriage.Because I know I have felt bored many times but yet am having a difficult time answering this question.And thinking about it when I have felt bored many times thats when I have suggested to my husband maybe lets go out or seeked him out to talk.So maybe if you think you are bored in your marriage you could be boring yourself or be the boring one of the two.
 
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And thinking about it when I have felt bored many times thats when I have suggested to my husband maybe lets go out or seeked him out to talk
I know thats one of the many things I see is the spouse will ask to do things often, which usually implies that spark is fading.

Its why its always good to find new things to do so that spark stays strong. Even it means taking up skydiving! lol
 
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In almost 40 years married I have never been bored.
Of course there are trying times, but communication, praying together, and love (in will as well as emotions) always sustained and renewed us.
May God bless you and your fiance with your upcoming wedding :pray:
 
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I think I have gotten bored with myself and possibly thought I was bored in marriage.Because I know I have felt bored many times but yet am having a difficult time answering this question.And thinking about it when I have felt bored many times thats when I have suggested to my husband maybe lets go out or seeked him out to talk.So maybe if you think you are bored in your marriage you could be boring yourself or be the boring one of the two.

I agree with this ^

I think we can get bored with routine and predictability. We then look around ourselves for a reason and think it is due to our partner (or our job/mortgage etc) and we start to think what needs to change. We could easily think we need to change our partner, but really we need to change our routine and interests.

I don't think it is being married that brings boredom or our partner but the solution and cause lies in getting more out of our situation or in life in general. For example when I was single I could change cities, but now we are a couple I don't feel I can. However being a couple isn't the real issue, it could be time to change cities together.
 
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St. Paul says "Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her." Marriage is a sacrifice: a type of martyrdom. You die to yourself each day and give your life for your spouse. This is for your salvation! Love is not a warm fuzzy feeling. There are times of warm fuzzy feelings and times of struggle. Loving someone is a decision. You love someone by caring for them, doing good to them, giving up your own will for their sake.

Christ did not always have warm fuzzy feelings for those He preached to, but He always loved them. If you can "fall out of love" with someone, you never loved them to begin with. You only had an infantile infatuation with them.

True love is giving. If losing love means losing warm feelings, then what you perceived as love was in actuality you focusing on what you could receive from the other, not what you could give.

That's all I've got. Hope it helps.
 
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Yes, you get bored. But that's normal. You just need to make time for each other regardless, maybe do something new, and work hard to stay in 'love'. Love isn't a fuzzy feeling, it's something you do. It's work. And it's rewarding.

One thing my wife and I do, is that no matter the circumstances, no matter how busy we are, we find a way to spend time with each other. Every week we have 1 whole day to ourselves to go do something (go out for dinner, walk in the park, skiing, etc...). Every year we go on vacation, no matter our financial situation (although, when you have a set goal, the financials tend to work themselves out it seems). And every day we find time to talk, even if it's on the phone, no matter how busy we are (for the record, I work, go to University, actively manage my investments, and am trying to set up a new business)...
 
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