Have you ever wondered "what is the secret to a long and happy marriage?" Our collection of tried and true marriage advice tips will help you answer that very question! These secrets to a happy marriage come straight from the horse's mouth -- those who are happily married!
Never assume.
Compliment more than you criticize.
For each time you vent about your husband/wife to your friends, tell three positive stories.
Remember that it is ok to do things differently (e.g. there is more than one way to peel a potato or fold the laundry).
Always make time for the two of you.
Marry someone that you enjoy listening and talking to.
Remember that marriage is sometimes a bed of roses and sometimes there are thorns.
Remember that the best gift that you can give your children is to love their mother/father.
Be fair! Split the housework, spending money, etc evenly. This way you are never resentful of your partners contributions (or lack of) or expenditures.
Never go to bed angry. (Unless it's 3a.m. and you're exhausted, angry, and not thinking straight.)
Remember that people do fight. It's how you do it that matters.
Before starting an argument, consider if it's really worth it.
Fight naked. ;)
Agree to disagree.
Never, ever mention the "D" word (divorce).
Do you want to be right or do you want to be married?
Respect each other's privacy.
Remember that "love is like childhood. You need to learn to share."
Marriage is not 50/50, it's two people giving 100/100 all of the time.
Surprise each other now and then.
The secret to a happy marriage is two TV's!
Have date night!
Never pass up an opportunity to say "I love you".
Hold hands.
Hug & kiss every day (several times a day actually!).
Always believe that you got better than you deserved.
Be quick to say "I'm sorry".
Choose the one you love, then love the one you choose.
Keep the in-laws out of your marriage!
Love isn't always a feeling, it's a decision.
Hang in there. It's worth it.
Play nice, play often, love much.
Never air your dirty laundry as a couple in public.
Never keep secrets from each other.
Be each other's champion. No matter what, take your husband or wife's side first!
Communication is the key!
Always respect each other.
Never underestimate the power of a good belly-laugh and don't be afraid to laugh at yourself.
It's the little things that matter most.
Never use the words 'Always' and 'Never' in a fight.
It's ok to argue, but never use curse words to express your anger.
Never compare your marriage to others. What you see on the outside is not always what it is on the inside.
Don't make love in the same place/position everytime. Variety is the spice of life!
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Judy Nevada
Posted at 8:27am on Thursday, June 25th, 2009
This is good advice. Print it out and read it daily. Also 2 key points to marriage- When a wife shows respect to her husband the husband will start to show more love. Love&Respect. Men want to feel respected. When a wife is constantly putting her husband down, it whittles him down to nothing and the last thing he wants to do is show her LOVE. A woman wants to be fought for, loved and needed. When a wife feels like her husband doesn't care about her she lacks the confidence to want to be intimate and men NEED to be intimate. Marriage is hard but just like it said above
Kami Washington
Posted at 8:21am on Thursday, June 25th, 2009
My husband would rather be with his guy friends than me. We got married young and hve 2 children in our 4 years of marriage. My husband works very hard and long days. He comes home, doesn't really talk, has a few beers and when its time to go to bed he wants wam bam thank you mam sex. I am missing something deeper. He is leaving this weekend for a trip with his guy friends and he won't even take a family vacation. I am so young sometimes I feel like I am wasting my life here. My friends are all single, going out and sometimes I envy them. I also have a terrible way of putting myself down so I constantly think he is dreaming of being with someone else when he is with me. I would like to tell him all this but he willjust get mad. I better keep praying, because I need help.
lisa Reading
Posted at 9:06pm on Tuesday, June 16th, 2009
I've been married 15 years. I drive 1 hour to Dialysis just started. He was suppose to go with me then go to make a contract in the same area and go to the mall until my four hours where done. He wanted to drive a hour back to spend 2 hours were we live it to then drive 1 hour back to pick me up. Well, I drove myself got lost stood 1/2 hour looking for the place couldn't find it> I was so frustrated that everyone I ask had no idea where that was at! Then this man deciced to look it up on his cell and directed towards it. He staed I would run into it which I never did. I left back home with out to Dialysis. I cried all the way back home. He didn't lend me the cell phone that I paid for he took it with him. Sometimes it's not worth being married that's why if my life wasn't important enough then I left him I done. How can a man be such and idiot to sleep with someone on their menstrual cycle then when the wife comes out pregnant deny it because their mother says theirs no way it could be his!! Knowing the wife is high risk he's going to start telling her this So, the wife could stress and get high blood pressure 245/135 that cause the child to come out early and the wife to lose the kidneys! Then when they sit down to decide wether or not to get a dishwasher when redoing the kitchen he's going to go ask his mother!!! She wasn't paying for it big MAMAS BOY!!! I should've been done with him a long time ago before our first son. Now, I'M through wrong name. I donot like anyone knowing my identity, sorry. Marriage is horrible!
fouad egypt
Posted at 12:50am on Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009
marriage = love + life + responsability + 1 bullet 2 shoot urself after all :P:P
Peter Swiss
Posted at 9:26pm on Wednesday, May 20th, 2009
Reading from a lot of unhappy people! Unfortunatelly...
Read the marriage advice. Read it again. Print it and read it with your partner. If she/he doesn't want to read it, leave it in the toilet.... Still no feedback? Let her/him know you left it there and that for you an improvement is needed. Then chat quietly! If the other side freaks out, give it time and remember a good moment! Smile;-) Just give it time -> #7
you don't know what is meant? start on the web page on the top...
Everyone who gives love gets love!
cherubin Philippines
Posted at 11:39pm on Thursday, May 14th, 2009
FOR ALMOST 5 MONTHS THAT WE'VE BEEN MARRIED, I FOUND OUT THAT I AM NOT HAPPY BEING MARRIED..
Friday Nigeria
Posted at 5:28pm on Thursday, May 14th, 2009
Never allow your misunderstanding with your Husband/Wife to go outside the four walls of your Home.
Ron Texas
Posted at 1:46pm on Monday, May 11th, 2009
I have been married for 11 months. I think she is wonderful but we have a blended family. Her adult sons live with us(they were supposed to be going off to college shortly after we got married and now are staying forever). They do nothing to contribute and my wife takes up for them constantly. I can't blame them because she's never asked them to help in any way. It's become an "us angainst them" mentality and I don't know what to do. Any help?
April Florida USA
Posted at 7:32pm on Friday, May 8th, 2009
I have stints of unhappiness in my marriage and I suffer from depression I wish my husband would be more understanding. It's not fair to say except them for who they are because that's not who I married!
April Florida USA
Posted at 7:30pm on Friday, May 8th, 2009
I have stints of unhappiness in my marriage and I suffer from depression I wish my husband would be more understanding. It's not fair to say except them for who they are because that's not sho I married!
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