Marriage can be a context for healing, but that was never its primary assignment.

Main message: Marriage is primarily relational—meant to bless and enrich life—rather than remedial or a means to fix personal brokenness.

Key points:

• Marriage is designed to enrich what is already good, not to repair what is broken.
• Expecting a relationship to "fix" you leads to choosing partners from a place of brokenness.
• Entering marriage with a fractured sense of self causes future problems when you or your partner change.
• Many people wrongly expect a "magical makeover" from marriage; while God can use marriage to heal, its intended purpose is blessing, not fixing.

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