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Relationship tips to keep your marriage humming!

Is it luck?

I found it interesting how many people wished me “good luck” on my wedding day, as if having a successful marriage is like winning the lottery. A famous golfer named Ben Hogan once said, “The more I practice, the luckier I get!” As with most things, having a successful relationship is not about luck at all, it’s simply the fruitful results of diligent practice.

Marriage Mondays!

Relationship tips to keep your marriage humming!

Great Expectations.

Expectations have a lot to do with happiness, but research has shown that it is not crucial for couples to have the same expectations to be happy. Rather, it’s much more important to try to meet each other’s most important and realistic desires.

The four key factors to managing your expectations are:

1. Being aware of what you expect
2. Being reasonable about what you expect
3. Being clear about what you expect
4. Being motivated to meet your partner’s expectations, even when they are different from your own

Marriage Mondays!

Relationship tips to keep your marriage humming!

 Nine words.

“Never forget the nine most important words of any family – I love you. You are beautiful. Please forgive me.”

~ H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Marriage Mondays!

Relationship tips to keep your marriage humming!

Address the root of all evil.

No, I’m not talking about your partner’s mother. I’m talking about money, which is the number one cause of couple conflict. I know that discussing finances and creating a budget doesn’t seem very sexy, but you have to do it if your relationship is going to work.