Your marriage and relationship can survive if you just do the simple things that matter everyday. If you want to bullet proof your marriage here are the seven most important things you can do:
1. Nurture your relationship with each other first and foremost. The relationship between husband and wife trumps everything else in a marriage. Get it right and good things follow. Get it wrong and lots of bad things often happen!
2. Make a concerted effort to keep the flame of your love affair alive with each other everyday. Never let boredom take over your marriage.
3. Enhance your love relationship by providing each other occasional time for privacy and aloneness. Time alone is good for the soul; it nourishes the spirit.
4. Approach all challenges with teamwork and open communication. Never be judgmental, since passing judgment on an idea can often lead to the death of open and honest debate between two people.
5. Don’t blame each other when things get tough, as casting blame never solved a problem. Saying “It’s your fault” is a sure way to cause an unnecessary argument.
6. Don’t wallow in self-pity; it is a wasted emotion.
7. While love is simple to understand, people don’t always do the simple things necessary to make love last. Being IN love is easy, but making love last for a lifetime takes hard work. Successful marriage is an accumulation of having done the simple things each day.
By America’s #1 Love and Marriage Experts
Dr. Charles D. Schmitz and Dr. Elizabeth A. Schmitz
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Nice read, I just passed this onto a friend who was doing a little research on that. And he just bought me lunch as I found it for him smile So let me rephrase that: Thanks for lunch! “We strain to renew our capacity for wonder, to shock ourselves into astonishment once again.” by Shana Alexander.
Oretha,
Thanks for your lovely comment. Hope you enjoyed your lunch.
Charley and Liz
When things get a little tense between me and the little lady I always arrive home a little early with a dozen red roses and a fresh key lime pie from my friends Kutchie and Anita. They own the Kutchie and Anita Pelaez’s Key Lime Pie Factory and Grill. My Honey’s favorite key lime pie. That pie get’s me off the hook every-time, you can just say that it is great at smoothing all the rough edges. It works miracles and put’s the love back in the air. If it works for me then I don’t know why it wouldn’t work for you.
Thanks, Glad I could help.
You can thank me later.
Dennis