The Best Marriages Know This: Compliment Your Partner, Be Funny, and Show You Care
“What’s the happiest marriage?”
“It’s not about being respectful or considerate. It’s about feeling happy when you see them, and feeling warm inside when you think about them.”
Before marriage, you enjoy romantic passion. After marriage, you need a steady flow of love and a united front.
Marriage isn’t just about happiness, love, and being there for each other through thick and thin.
It’s also about testing, struggling, breaking old habits, and building new ones. The ups and downs of life, the sweet and bitter, the good and the bad, even the strongest love needs to be nurtured in marriage.
A nurtured marriage makes life more flavorful, strengthens the bond, and lasts longer. Follow these three steps to nurture your marriage, boost happiness, and enjoy family life.
Compliment Your Partner
Compliments between couples make even the most mundane life feel warmer. A marriage full of compliments is as sweet as honey.
A marriage full of compliments brings true happiness. Don’t be stingy with compliments, because your partner is the one who’ll be there with you until the end.
My friend says she never holds back from complimenting her husband in person.
Even if he just washes one extra dish or folds a piece of clothing, she praises his efforts. Every time she compliments him, he works harder, without complaint.
It’s proven that complimenting your partner is like oil for the machine of life. Complimenting your partner is another way to express love.
People can defend themselves from attacks, but they are powerless against compliments.
The deepest principle of human nature is the need for praise, and a spouse needs praise even more. This keeps the relationship sweet and the marriage stable and happy.
Be Funny
Couples with similar senses of humor are more likely to fall in love and stay together.
Being funny is a skill. Couples who are funny in marriage generally have strong relationships and a harmonious family atmosphere. Yang Jiang and Qian Zhongshu, known as literary power couples, brought a lot of humor into their marriage.
Use humor to resolve conflicts in your daily life. Once, they were talking about exercise.
When it comes to daily chores, couples inevitably bicker.
Learning to use humor to solve problems can effectively prevent conflict from escalating.
Life without humor is a tragedy. A humorless marriage is bland.
Humor makes marriage richer and more colorful. On the other hand, if you’re always quick to anger and blunt, it can quickly tear a marriage apart.
One ordinary couple could calmly express their grievances at first. But when it came to marriage issues, they both agreed that the other was too harsh and inconsiderate. The wife complained that her husband wasn’t caring enough and was mean.
The husband complained that his wife was too rough and not gentle enough.
Ultimately, neither of them knew how to speak properly.
They didn’t know how to soften their words when things got tough, which escalated their arguments.
This led to a deteriorating relationship and a growing lack of happiness.
As the saying goes: Humor is a life raft in a stormy sea.
Speaking kindly to your partner and using humor is wisdom and refinement.
Humorous marriages make couples even more loving.
Show You Care
A marriage without love and care is like a world without fire, and it will eventually crumble. A partner’s care is confirmation of a shared future and proof of love.
Like Kent, my coworker, who is known as a “wife’s slave.”
His wife’s word is “royal decree,” and he’s never shown any impatience. Kent always shows his wife warmth and care at home.
At dinner, he asks her how the food tastes, if she likes it, if the food is too hard, and which dishes are easier to digest so she can eat more.
When there’s a company dinner, Kent calls his wife to ask if she’s tired from work, if he should give her a massage when he gets home, if she ate well, and if he should bring her something delicious.
When others tease him, Kent always smiles sheepishly and says that a spouse is the closest person in the world besides their parents and children.
Yes, two people who are not related by blood coming together to build a family need love like family. This is how to better nurture a marriage.
Little Zhang, who seems quiet and simple, is surprisingly clear-headed and insightful. He’s full of wisdom when it comes to marriage. His family was even recognized as a model family in their county because of their loving relationship and successful marriage.
They not only earned a good reputation, but their love for each other also grew stronger. Every time you show your partner more care, you add a little bit more happiness to your relationship. Showing your partner you care in marriage fills life with love.
Only when couples care for and cherish each other can they keep their love fresh forever, and their marriage can flow like a gentle stream.
Falling in love is the process of getting married, and getting married is the purpose of falling in love.
From the beautiful and romantic stage of falling in love, you enter the mundane and tedious life of marriage. The long road of marriage tests the love and understanding between couples, and the care they put into maintaining their marriage. In marriage, your attitude towards your partner determines the level of happiness in your marriage.
A good relationship takes effort, and a sweet marriage takes love. A marriage full of compliments, humor, and care makes a relationship as strong as a rock and fills life with warmth.
May you and I find that person who can weather the storms with us, care for each other, and share the sweetest moments in life.
