Communication is a major issue in marriages today. A marriage is something you have to work on daily, being able to solve everyday problems is the only way to make it work. Communication is the best way to prevent divorce because talking about everyday problems, turning to a counselor if necessary, solving financial problems and making time for each other, no matter how hectic life becomes, is the best way to make a marriage work. it's a wonderful connection between two people who love each other. If someone gets married in a church or “at any time of day or night (Didion)”. to Las Vegas for a small private backyard wedding. At first they are so in love that all this matters, but in many marriages this changes. They end up having kids and tend to forget what it takes to make each other happy, they are so worried about kids, bills, work and forget to make time for them. Once a month you need to set aside time to be a couple and have a nice dinner or go to the cinema, so they will remember why they fell in love. If more couples could make time for each other, show each other affection and how much they are appreciated for everything they do, there wouldn't be so much infidelity in a marriage. They wouldn't feel like they had to look for it somewhere else in other people. Entering into a marriage, everything should be shared with equal responsibility, putting things off to one or the other is never right, it should be equal both ways. If you feel like there is more responsibility and pressure on them, you need to sit down with your partner and talk about the problem. When the two can't solve the problem any other way, then they have to go to... middle of paper... the necessary investments can make or break a marriage. Communication is what holds a marriage together. Without communication a marriage can become hectic. A marriage is all about communication, if you don't have communication, you don't have a marriage. Works Cited Coontz Stephanie “The American Family” The iDeal Reader. Comp. Linda Connell, Dallas Hulsey, Pete Mladinic and Susan Waters. New York: McGraw-Hill Create, 2012. 39-43. Print.Didion Joan “Marrying Absurd”. The ideal reader. Comp. Linda Connell, Dallas Hulsey, Pete Mladinic and Susan Waters. New York: McGraw-Hill Create, 2012.44-46. Print.Nielsen, Katie. “The Top 5 Challenges of Marriage.” Familyshare.com. Family Sharing, August 16, 2013. Web. December 3 2013. .