How to Live married happily ever after

Many people wonder how it is possible for many couples to stay together for 50 or 60 years or more. My answer to that question is that couples can grow old together and be miserable in the process. This is no reason to pessimistic though. Most people want to be in a happy marriage. Here is what you can do to be happily married until you die.

Instructions

Difficulty: Easy

Things You’ll Need:

• 10 years

1. Most people get married early in life. If you are one of those people and you have a normal marriage you can consider yourself happy for the next 10 years. You will reach your goals together, have children together and reach the American Dream together. So the first step is to enjoy those first ten years. Make the most out of them.
2. At ten years, most likely you will encounter a crisis in your marriage, such as a mid life crisis. This could be because people change and 10 years make a big difference in people. 10 years bring a lot of sweet moments and some miserable ones that you may be willing to over look because you just love each other so much. By then you have achieved so much that you are burned out. You have been in achieving mode all this time but now you want to achieve your own things. With your new found maturity you discovered that some of the things that you wanted to achieve together did not fully satisfied you. After 10 years there is nothing else to achieve together except a divorce. So at 10 years if you are miserable, you get divorced. Repeat this to yourself "in light of my past experiences and my hopes and dreams for my future, what is the right thing to do?" Do not be like those couples that stay together forever miserable because back when they were younger it was hard for one of them to live independently of the other or it was not right to get divorce. Society would not allow such a thing. Now when the grandchildren ask about it they tell stories about how happy they were the whole 50 or 60 years they have spent together. They buried the bad memories. Simply forgot them.
3. Now wait 5 years and get married again. Most likely you will marry sooner because marriage is a wonderful thing, you have realized. You missed all the good things and learned some lessons form your past experience. You may bring some baggage to the new marriage but now you are mature. You know what you want and so does your new spouse, who most likely be divorced also. If you are younger than 40 you may have to evaluate your situation again in 10 years. If you are in your 40's however, you will be happy and will grow old together because the focus will be to get the kids safely to college, while spending quality time with each other, going to the tools store or shopping at old flea markets or traveling the world with no worries.. Nothing else to achieve. Of course you have plans to be rich, to retire soon but if those things don't happen it is not a big deal. You no longer need what your neighbor has and you can laugh now at how silly people can be.