This is not marital advice

If you're married, about to get married, or the thought of getting married has ever occurred to you, people will tell you things like, "Yo home-dog, I'm just lettin you know, your baby gurl ain't always gonna take your side " or "L isten sister, there will be times when you and your sweetie disagree, so beware" or " Now son, the occasion will arise from time to time when you two don't see eye-to-eye." I don't know what it is, but e veryone is obsessed with this idea. They can't let you go into marriage thinking you're never going to have conflict with your spouse--they couldn't live with themselves if they didn't warn you about it. Familylife.com says, "There is no way to avoid conflict in your marriage." Wow. That's awesome. And motivating. There is no way; conflict is unavoidable. Without offering detailed examples, I would say that there probably are ways to reduce conflict, and we ...