Best Marriage Advice

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  • sheenarama
    sheenarama Posts: 733 Member
    Marry your best friend.

    My best friend is already married. Do I make a new best friend?
  • ew_david
    ew_david Posts: 3,473 Member
    I'm not reading this whole thread to see if it's been said but here's mine: Don't marry someone you can live with. Marry someone you can't live without.
  • capnrus789
    capnrus789 Posts: 2,736 Member
    Just remember, fellas...no matter how wrong she is, she's right.
  • Sovi_
    Sovi_ Posts: 575 Member
    You do not have to tell them everything you feel they are doing wrong.
  • Derp_Diggler
    Derp_Diggler Posts: 1,456 Member
    Don't settle for good enough. Make sure you respect the other person, otherwise no amount of love or attraction will make you happy.
  • _Stardust_
    _Stardust_ Posts: 124 Member
    Decide if you would rather be happy or you'd rather be right. Sometimes you can have both, but usually being happy trumps being right for me.

    This chick knows what's up.
    Plus she's hot.
  • CraigG75
    CraigG75 Posts: 177 Member
    Be unselfish towards each other
    Give to each other radically
    Listen to and encourage one another
    (Said prevously but so true) Be each other's priority
    Have sex often :)
    Honest Communication and don't get defensive
  • sw33tp3a11
    sw33tp3a11 Posts: 4,646 Member
    Never EVER complain to your spouse about your parents and vice versa. Otherwise **** gets thrown in your face by both parties.
  • skullshank
    skullshank Posts: 4,323 Member
    settling down means settling.

    also, stay off MFP. this place is full of slores and riff-raff!
  • TheRoadDog
    TheRoadDog Posts: 11,788 Member
    Decide if you would rather be happy or you'd rather be right. Sometimes you can have both, but usually being happy trumps being right for me.

    ^^^^^^^^^Very important. ^^^^^^^^^^

    I always stop and think "Is this one little thing more important than my marriage?" Nope.
  • sentaruu
    sentaruu Posts: 2,206 Member
    never stop dating your wife.
  • Timshel_
    Timshel_ Posts: 22,834 Member
    It should not be about you.
    Keep some mystery in the marriage (i.e., close the fricken bathroom door)
    Don't expect too much and you will always be surprised (true in life).
    People change. Let them and love who they want to be.
    Talk to them like you would your best friend - they are.
    You won't always like your SO, but you should always love them.
  • Slendermike
    Slendermike Posts: 1,776 Member
    don't do it
  • MuscleAndMascara
    MuscleAndMascara Posts: 1,260 Member
    My mother and father were married for 43 years before my father passed away.

    The one thing I learned from them, was unconditional love. No matter how mad, hurt, sad, anything.. LOVE like every day was your last. Never yell or argue in front of anyone and never let anyone know about personal things between the two of you. Love your kids, but your spouses more. Date, suprise, hold eachothers hands. Remind one another how much you care for them and tell them how beautiful or handsome one another is. Never stop trying.

    They were the best parents in the world.

    Myself would say communication and obviously to be at least half the person my parents were.
  • christopherdoan
    christopherdoan Posts: 3
    Encourage one another, forgive eachother, never stop being young, and be honest
  • Frankie_Felinius
    Frankie_Felinius Posts: 1,398 Member
    If your partner wants you to do something/not do something...even if YOU don't get WHY...do it/don't do it because it will make them happy.
  • krawhitham
    krawhitham Posts: 831 Member
    Make sure you can accept and can be happy with your partner *exactly* as they are.

    ^This. Times a million.
  • MariadfdCruz
    MariadfdCruz Posts: 69 Member
    "Never let your husband leave the house with an empty stomach and full balls".

    Terribly sexist. But the person who said it has been happily married for 35 years...

    This one doesn't work. I am divorced and I was taking care of those 2. Though there are some exceptional man that they don't like to have empty balls ;) or/and empty stomach LOL

    It's hard to keep a relation. Now, I am in a relation for 9 years and it felt good to be separated for some months. Living together isn't easy. You need to LOVE your partner and both working on the relation every single day, looking both to the same side of the road.
  • JTPug1980
    JTPug1980 Posts: 85 Member
    Be unselfish towards each other
    Give to each other radically
    Listen to and encourage one another
    (Said prevously but so true) Be each other's priority
    Have sex often :)
    Honest Communication and don't get defensive

    This
  • shimmerNsparkle
    shimmerNsparkle Posts: 116
    Don't let others get involved and dont bad mouth your other half in a moment of anger because something you will be over in the morning your friends and family will remember, I made this mistake, but I was also a young bride(had a baby at 22 Married at 23) THANKFULLY me and my husband are still married and going on our 5yr anniversary next month.
  • AngelineTheBaker
    AngelineTheBaker Posts: 155 Member
    The best (serious) marriage advice I've ever read was this:

    http://lydianetzer.blogspot.com/2012/04/15-ways-to-stay-married-for-15-years.html?m=1

    Those, and don't nag. If you want something done, do it yourself.

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