Secret to a good marriage

[stevewool]

What's the secret to a good happy marriage or ain't there one.
We all have our ups and downs in any married life but many stay together through thick and thin while others fail after so long, so what is the secrets.
Mine is to laugh together and try to understand each other too, it's not just what i am wanting in life now.

[Trefor]

Keeping your mouth shut sometimes, well I need to anyway :-)

[SimonH]

Keeping your mouth shut sometimes, well I need to anyway :-)



Indeed, knowing when to keep your gob shut and bugger off down the pub for an hour or four :wink:

[Slip]

Knowing your wife is always right :NoNo:

[Tawi2]

Is there a secret,or is it natural chemistry and symbiosis?My grandparents were married for over 60 years,some relationships are more durable than others,some marriages flounder on the rocks within a year,i have seen a few on here that didn't have decent foundations and perished,who knows the answer,its human beings,theres no mathematical calculus nor chemical formulae to predict who is going to last the distance and which couple will fall at the first hurdle :smile:

[stevewool]

Keeping your mouth shut sometimes, well I need to anyway :-)

I thought you was telling me something here.:biggrin:

[stevewool]

Is there a secret,or is it natural chemistry and symbiosis?My grandparents were married for over 60 years,some relationships are more durable than others,some marriages flounder on the rocks within a year,i have seen a few on here that didn't have decent foundations and perished,who knows the answer,its human beings,theres no mathematical calculus nor chemical formulae to predict who is going to last the distance and which couple will fall at the first hurdle :smile:

Never thought about it really , many of us are in the same boat or, we have a partner who is from the Philippines, i know of a few who have a funny relationship, but i don't know anyone who has divorced yet

[Trefor]

I thought you was telling me something here.:biggrin:

LOL! no, me, or men in general :biggrin:

[Tawi2]

Never thought about it really , many of us are in the same boat or, we have a partner who is from the Philippines, i know of a few who have a funny relationship, but i don't know anyone who has divorced yet

Seen a number of guys on this forum go the old D...I...V...O...R...C...E dolly parton route since I have been on,and know a goodly number in the real world divorced from pinays,and others suffering in silence :icon_lol: no different from same ethnicity marriages.

[grahamw48]

Living in different countries ? :biggrin:

[Tawi2]

Living in different countries ? :biggrin:
:icon_lol:

[Arthur Little]

:smile: TOP of the list in my book ... give & take.

[Arthur Little]

Living in different countries ? :biggrin:

Yes, a very :gp:, Graham ... absence (as you've discovered!) can - and often does - make the heart grow fonder.

[Harry T]

Dont know the answer; married once divorced once, me and my ex still get along fine, if i think it was all the baggage that was around us that was the biggest issue, the baggage wont ever go away after all its her family, and blood is thicker than water.

[Arthur Little]

Having already mentioned my own tips ... :anerikke: ... I should, perhaps, admit that, in many ways I've been luckier than some with each of my two marriages. :biggrin:

However, few can predict what lies in store for them, :nono-1-1: ... because I've also experienced the heartbreak of losing my first wife to cancer - exactly a year prior to our Silver Wedding - a salutory lesson that life, itself, ISN'T always plain sailing.

[Longweekend]

I also don't know the answer, be a rich man if I did, I've been married just once for 21 years or is it 22 and I'm still having to work at it...:doh

[stevewool]

Listening .:xxgrinning--00xx3: