9 Tips for a Long-Lasting Marriage
- You have to make up after fights.
- You must watch your tongue and never say hurtful things because you are mad.
- You must forgive and forget.
- You must try to make each other happy every single day.
- You need to laugh. Laugh at each other, laugh with each other and laugh at life together.
- You need to be selfless. If you are each selfless, you will always be happy.
- You need to have interests together, and also apart.
- You need to watch TV together. Having more than one TV is a marriage downfall.
- You must give from the heart every day, not just on special occasions. Think, “What would make him/her happy?
You must spend time being together, without the kids.
Because one day, the kids won’t be there, but you two will be. Remember, you, and he started out as two. You started out dating. No matter how long you have been together, you must still date. The point is to fill up your time together, doing activities you both enjoy.
“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.” Friedrich Nietzsche
The key, before you find yourself alone in an empty house together, is to never lose each other in the first place. Never stop dating. Never stop talking. Never stop laughing. No matter how busy life and schedules get, spend time together.
Even if that time spent together is cooking together, brushing your teeth at the same time, or stealing a few minutes before you both fall asleep. Talk together. Not about the kids and schedules and teachers and all that stuff that has nothing to do with you as a couple, but talk about couple things.
Don’t ever stop the conversation about the two of you.
“When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.” Friedrich Nietzsche
