8 Habits of Happily Married Couples
1 They're grateful.
WINSTON CHURCHILL LETTER TO CLEMENTINE CHURCHILL, 1948
Churchill wrote this on the couples fortieth anniversary.
My Beloved,
I send this token, but how little can it express my gratitude to you for making my life & any work I have done possible, and for giving me so much happiness in a world of accident & storm.
Your ever loving and devoted husband W
Ogden Nash (19021971) was not always this economical in his verse, but was frequently this blunt.
To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever youre wrong, admit it; Whenever youre right, shut up.
HENRY NEUMANN MODERN YOUTH AND MARRIAGE, 1928
Henry Neumann (18821966) was a leader of the Society for Ethical Culture, a movement founded in 1876 by Felix Adler on the principle that ethics are independent of theology.
Disillusion, of course, enters in time. There are no full-grown perfect beings. Sooner or later the frailties are recognized. But there is in most people a better self which the fallible self hides; and the greatest privilege of the married life is to be the one who assists the other more and more to do justice to that better possibility.
4 They're realistic.
H. L. MENCKEN A BOOK OF BURLESQUES, 1916
Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him in a very handy form.
ELBERT HUBBARD LOVE, LIFE & WORK, 1906
There are six requisites in every happy marriage; the first is Faith and the remaining five are Confidence.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE HUMAN, ALL TOO HUMAN, 1878
Friedrich Nietzsche (18441900) is often credited with planting the seeds of modern philosophical inquiry and sometimes assailed for providinghowever unwittinglythe underpinnings of fascism. The prolific German philosopher was ill, either physically or mentally, for much of his life and never married. But he included maxims about many aspects of personal life in Human, All Too Human , one of his earliest works.
This was aphorism number 406, preceded by one called Masks and followed by one called Girlish dreams.
Marriage as a long conversation.When entering into a marriage one ought to ask oneself: do you believe you are going to enjoy talking with this woman up into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory, but most of the time you are together will be devoted to conversation.
7. They accept each other's differences.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE TABLE TALK, 1824
You may depend upon it, that a slight contrast of character is very material to happiness in marriage.
MARK TWAIN NOTEBOOK, 1894
Samuel Clemenshad been married twenty-four years when he wrote this in his notebook.
Love seems the swiftest, but is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.
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Saying I love you is also easy, but doing all these things is how the flames of romance and the bonds of companionship are kept strong.
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Jennilee
It is a journey no a destination and my bride and I have been enjoying the trip (and each other) for going on 28 years now
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