What types of skills are necessary to achieve marital

Question

1. What types of skills are necessary to achieve marital success? Do you believe people enter marriage with the skills you've identified as being necessary for success? Why?
2. What myths have you heard about marriage? Do you believe any of them? Why?
3. What types of marriage have you experienced? Consider your parents, grandparents, siblings, and, if applicable, your own marriage when answering this question.
4. What are your views on inter-racial and inter-faith marriages? Do you think these marriages have any advantages or disadvantages from homogeneous marriages?
5. Are you a "giver" or a "taker" in relationships? What about your significant other? Are you comfortable in this role in your relationships?
6. What marital adjustments have you needed to make? What about your significant other? If you have never married, what marital adjustments do you think your parents needed to make?