Best & Worst Marriage Advice
Wednesday, November 12th, 2008
To keep your marriage brimming,
With love in the loving cup,
Whenever you’re wrong admit it;
Whenever you’re right shut up.
~Ogden Nash
I recently came across this article about the best and worst advice given to couples about marriage. A couple of my favorites are:
“My aunt told me that if I’m running late when it’s my turn to make dinner, just set the table. That way my husband thinks he’ll be eating any minute, so he doesn’t start complaining, which buys me some time. It’s a silly trick that sounds straight out of the 1950s, but I have to admit that I’ve tried it a few times in the three years I’ve been married — and it works!”
“After my husband and I got together, a close friend of mine told me, ‘If the sex is good, it’s only 10 percent of the marriage. But if the sex is not so good, it’s 90 percent. So do your darndest to make sure it stays really, really good!‘”
As I read the article, I remembered that there was a discussion at The League of Extraordinary Wives about the best and worst marriage advice. I headed over there to see what kind of advice our Extraordinary Wives had been given. There was a plethora of advice, mostly good. Though when the advice was bad it was really bad! Can you believe people actually said these things?
- The worst advice came from a “friend”. She told me that I should always remain independent of my husband. She told me that she did not need her husband.
- The worst: “Manipulate your man so he always thinks your ideas are his“ Ugh, are you kidding me?
- The worst advice… probably the woman who told me that she kept her marriage lively by being unfaithful on occasion.
The good advice was all sage and useful but the cream of the crop came from an unexpected source:
I used to work in a retirement home and would have tea with some of the residents to keep them company. One lady, “G” (God bless her cotton socks) told me the key to a happy marriage was to always keep the lines of communication open, never keep score, and to always have physical relations…even if you’re as old as dust.
There’s more to that tidbit of advice but you’ll have to go The League of Extraordinary Wives to see it!
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