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How to Have a Truly Happy Marriage

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By arnief
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The secret to a truly happy marriage is to be best friends with your spouse and do as much with them as possible. Share interests share desires share tidbits. Communicating is the ultimate key to togetherness and will open up the relationship rather than distancing your relationship.

Difficulty: Easy
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  1. Step 1

    Plan a date night and take your spouse out for the evening go to dinner. Hire a babysitter and take your spouse out to a restaurant for dinner, it doesn't have to be a very fancy place but going out without the kids can make it such a relaxing experience.

  2. Step 2

    Need to go grocery shopping? Take your spouse again without kids and see what a different experience it will be. Talk to your spouse, go for a drive on a Sunday and just enjoy the day. Make sure you discuss your week or goings on in the upcoming weeks. Stop at little shops and walk around, appreciate what your spouse admires, and talk about it. Get to know what they might like to shop for and just window shop.

  3. Step 3

    If your spouse is into an outside of house activity, pottery, sports, book clubs. Get involved go with them meet their friends. Sharing these things. Sunday mornings get up and go to a local café for coffee and conversation. This works great to keep communication flowing. Don't forget to hold hands whenever you are together, this is something that is rare and reaffirms a closeness with each other.

  4. Step 4

    text message each other throughout the day. With txt messaging bundle plans allowing unlimited txt messages send your wife or husband a text and simply say "i love you" or, "love you". This is so simple yet means soo much.

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on 7/6/2009 great tips on having a happy marriage! rrcr5*

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on 7/1/2009 My husband and I have a very good marriage. Married for 10 years and still counting. A very good article and hope you get alot of readers on this one because it is very important. 5* and rec.

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on 6/29/2009 great tips! 5*s

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on 6/28/2009 Very good reminders about keeping your marriage not only alive but happy. Thanks

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on 6/27/2009 Your tips are dead-on correct; makes me sad that me and my fiancee have given up engaged, because we forgot how to do these things.

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