If you’re hoping to get married or remarried, this article has a list of expectations to discuss. Before you’re married is the time to start learning relationship skills. These relationship skills can help us be happier while we’re single too. Life is a practice test, you have to keep learning and practicing.
“James McNulty and Benjamin Karney at Ohio State University published a study in which they tested 82 newlyweds and re-tested them at six month intervals for four years following marriage.” (Meridian Magazine article on Marriage)

• couples who had high initial expectations for their marriage, but low relationship skills, weren’t that happy after 4 years.
  
• couples with low expectations and low relationship skills were fine.
  
• couples with high relationship skills only experienced high marital satisfaction if they also had high expectations for the marriage. If they had low expectations, they weren’t happy.
  

So the moral is to develop high relationship skills and keep your expectations high. Review a list of expectations throughout your marriage and learn to communicate well and have a good attitude about these expectations.