[header] How to be a successful husband according to the apostle peter [title] Don't view marriage as purgatory. [step] A girl once stood and defined purgatory as " a state of terrible torment which those who enter are compelled to undergo for a time to fit them for heaven. " her definition of the word was wrong, but her description of the experience of many in the state of marriage was right. 
Matrimony can be a purgatory rather than the paradise god intended it to be. [title] Marriage can produce a paradise, or it can reduce a paradise to ashes by means of the fires of conflict.