Tips to avoid seven common newly-weds mistakes

1. Not setting boundaries with friends and family

These common mistakes are committed by many newlyweds after you get married your most focus should be on your spouse and you must spend as much time as you can with each other. To successfully spend time with each other, you must limit the time you spend with friends and families and therefore setting boundaries is important.

2. Expecting too much from your partner

Your partner is a human being too, and as humans you make mistakes, you forget things and you get tired. Understand your partner, don’t expect so much out of your partner. Help them when you can, expecting too much will only hurt you and your partner and make your married life a disaster.

3. Rushing to the next step

Another common mistakes couple make is to rush to the next step, you must slow down, take time to enjoy your honeymoon phase completely and then think of the next step. Rushing into things will make you give up on equally important phase of married life.

4. Not having a long time financial plan

Before getting married, you must be financially stable. There must be a financial plan and proper decisions about finance from both sides. After getting married, you must not ignore the finance part, which is very important to manage well. As a couple, you mist together to look into your finances and decide the budget for the month or year.

5. Expecting there would be only happiness

Many couples expect that their married life will be the only bed of roses, which is not true. Marriage is not the end, it’s a beautiful beginning of new life together. Marriage is not like happily ever after they show in movies. The new life you enter is going to make you happy as well as disappoint you. You should be ready to face all the difficulties together.

6. Alienating friends

As mentioned earlier, you should set boundaries with friends and family but you must not completely forget about them. You must maintain the contact with your friends and family Afterall they are your support system, so don’t alienate with them stay connected while maintaining boundaries.

7. Ignoring self

The biggest mistake if someone makes is losing their own identity. You are married and you are one but you have your own identity and personality and you must take care of it. Practisingself-love and self-care is equally important after marriage, don’t forget yourself while being with your partner.