Planning your wedding is such a fun and exciting process, but it can at times be all-encompassing. Once the wedding passes and you?re settling into married life, though, it can be tough to distinguish what things you?ve heard about marriage are true and what are just myths, so to say. Read on to learn about all the widely believed tenets of marriage that, over the years, have turned out to be more fiction than fact.
You Have to Change Your Last Name
It?s now considered quite old fashioned that all married women need to change their last name to match that of their new husband. While this is somewhat of a widely held tradition, it?s becoming more and more common for women to keep their given last name. The fact around this ?myth? is that either way is fine. If you want to change your last name, go for it. If you want to keep your last name as it, that?s cool too. Some couples are getting creative with this and are coming up with new last names that are a combination of both surnames, which is an innovative way to break tradition. The important thing is that you discuss it with your husband and let him know how you feel about the act of changing your name either way. Couples Therapy Is Only for Troubled Marriages

Many couples believe that going to couples or marriage counselling is something only to be done if there is an issue between the two of you. This is simply not true, though. The stigma surrounding therapy that it’s only useful to face issues is a false one, ...