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If you are counseling a troubled marriage you need to help this couple understand these phases of marriage
and how dangerous it is to allow their relationship to transition into the retaliation or rejection phase. They
need to become willing to do whatever is necessary to change this pattern and to work themselves back into
the reality phase.

Five predictable stages in marriage
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5.4 Let’s Practice...
1-5. Describe the five phases of marriage?

6. Why is it important to know in which stage your relationship is currently operating?

7. Why is it important that we try to keep our relationship from deteriorating into the last two
stages?

5.5 Let’s Personalize this Lesson...:
Can you think of marital relationships you have observed which are in these various phases?
How can you prepare yourself to correctly evaluate the stage in which you might find
yourself? How will you help your relationship, or help the marriage relationship of someone
else, to change course and exit the retaliation phase and the rejection phase?

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