The emphasis on marriage instruction, according to experts, started largely with therapists who recognized that most troubled marriages were not a result of psychological problems but a lack of marital skills. As the thinking goes among those at the center of the marriage instruction movement, breakups can be pre-empted by preparing people before they get married. And she talked about the role of sex in a marriage. Sure it's exciting. It enhances the relationship.
Someone has to go to work, empty the trash and take care of the bills.
You can't spend your life in bed. Though it will be years before researchers determine whether the programs will preserve the marriages of these students, they have found the courses have positive short-term effects. In a study of the Loving Well program, a nationwide program that uses literature to illustrate romantic love, bad relationships and happy marriages, only 8 percent of 8th graders who were virgins opted to have sex after taking the course compared with 28 percent of a control group who didn't take the course. And another study showed that students in the Connections course were less likely than other teens to use violence to solve conflicts. The Connections group was less likely to agree with that.