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The following conversation happened in a post marital counselling session I handled sometime ago. This was with a Christian couple that have been married for more than five years.
Wife: I do not trust my husband when it comes to relationships with the opposite sex.
Counsellor (Me): How come? Has he done anything to make you distrust him? Have you caught him with another woman?
Wife: No. Not yet. I just do not trust him.
Counsellor (Me): So when did this distrust issue start?
Wife: I don't know.
Husband: Interjecting; I will tell you. All this started when I told her that I had a lot of girlfriends before I got married. From that time, she has been suspecting any kind of relationship I have with the opposite sex.
I am using this real life situation to discuss the effect of "The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy" in marriages.
