Our first two years were pretty stressful...and my marriage was love-then-arranged-because-it-made-the-families-look-good.
During the first year we contended with a long distance relationship, then during that time I lost a close family member which stressed me out and as my husband wasn't around I think that stressed him out too. I went through health issues which caused added stress, he was finishing his education and I was in the process of setting up a business....so yeah stressful.
But inshallah we'll be celebrating our 4th wedding anniversary in April.
Once we took away the following stresses we were fine:
the long distance
the finishing off of education
finding jobs
interferring family....on both frickin' sides!!!
the misunderstandings that come with the situation of two-lives-becoming-one
adjusting to the other person
If we hadn't of gone through what we did go through we wouldn't know the value of the other person in our relationship.