What?!? What does it take to make marriage work? How does our marriage enrichment not degenerate into a series of random acts of kindness driven or distracted by the tyranny of the urgent? How do we ensure that our individual acts of marital enrichment are working together to build a momentum and gather energy from one another?
These are important questions to ask, even if you are not currently discouraged or overwhelmed by the number of seemingly unrelated things that need to be done to improve your marriage. Marital enrichment that feels random is hard to maintain, easily forgotten, and tend to get bumped down the priority chain. This is why we must not allow marital enrichment to remain random.
The purpose of this presentation is to provide the “big picture” that gives meaning to all the “little pieces” of marital enrichment. This chapter does not give all the “little pieces,” that is the purpose of the rest of this series. But you should get the framework to make enrichment seem purposeful.
