It has been both a brutal and beautiful seven years for my husband, Derek, and I. It makes some sense that if we experience large changes in personal growth, experience, knowledge and goals every seven years, that these changes will make a marriage less stable and increase the probability of divorce. According to his theories, humans experience changes physically and mentally every seven years. Austrian philosopher and teacher Rudolf Steiner created a theory of human development based on seven-year cycles. Other theories suggest that our bodies and minds develop and change every seven years. Or by the seven-year mark, some couples may have spent enough time together that the relationship is no longer exciting and all of those pesky habits and traits that were tolerable through the first few years of the relationship are now like nails on a chalkboard (a.k.a. Perhaps it’s a matter of timing: after seven years, some couples will have successfully raised one or two children through the trying infant years, only to realize that they don’t really want to be together any longer. There’s no consensus among experts as to why the seven-year itch may occur. Relationship expert Jennifer Nagy writes about the seven-year itch phenomenon, ![]() ![]() I would have never imagined that boy in the bright yellow Old Navy fleece I saw at youth camp at 13 would be my closest friend, partner, and father of my children.Īs we approach our 7th anniversary I find it be something extra special to celebrate. Marriage has been no picnic but we’ve worked hard for our marriage to be what it is. ![]() I’m coming up on seven years of marriage and am beyond blessed to be more in love with the man I married than ever before.
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