We know that as teens, you are faced with so many difficult decisions: Where do I go to college? Do I really like him/her? What should I wear to the dance? With so many questions piling up, we can help you find answers about all the relationships in your life. Whether you’re feeling the excitement of a budding relationship or you just want to learn these skills for your future, we’re here to help you get the answers you need!
3 Steps to a Brighter Future
The Foundation for Marriage suggests that the most important choices you can make for a successful marriage start with these three steps:
1. Finish Your Education
A high school degree is essential to your future. A College degree can significantly increase your earning power. That makes a big difference when you have children. The current estimated cost of raising just one child to age 17 is $269,520…that’s a lot of money, but you can help your situation now by getting your education.
2. Get a Job
Establish financial security and learn to manage a household on your own. If you move right out of your parents’ house into a house you share with a partner, you’re just exchanging one kind of dependence for another. On the other hand, consider a career and life path that includes marriage by age 30. Studies show marriages that begin in the 20s have the highest rates of happiness and success!
3. Get Married Before You Have Children
Once you’re established and looking for a committed relationship, hold out for marriage. There are many reasons living together is just not the same as marriage – including the increased likelihood the relationship will end. And marriage is definitely best for you and your kids. Study after study shows that children who are born into a marriage and grow up with their two parents do better emotionally, physically, academically, and socially.
Follow these three steps – and take the time to learn healthy relationship skills – and your dreams of “happily ever after” are far more likely to come true. (“3 Steps” were adapted from The Foundation for Marriage, www.thinkmarriage.org )
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Our class, Love U2, is an interactive fun class that will teach you: how to know the difference between lust and love, dating basics and how to break up with someone, unique dating ideas, the five areas you need to get to know about someone, the three T’s of dating, and much more! Sign up for a Love U2 class in your area and get your head in the dating game!
Another class, How to Avoid Marrying a Jerk(ette), teaches you how to choose a compatible partner. You’ll learn dating skills such as the development of trust and how it’s related directly to intimacy, why family relationships are ones to be paying attention to, and how to take off the rose-colored glasses. This course also teaches you how to focus on and find the characteristics of a loving, lasting relationship.
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