How would you like it if you could get a lifetime guarantee card for a happy marriage. Well, read this article and you will be able to walk out with one. Whether you are thinking about getting married or you have been married for fifty years, marriage is always going to be a roller coaster ride.
Look at this graph. There is research to prove that the so called honeymoon period lasts just for 2-years. But social scientists have also studied about what makes a happy marriage.
This article will share the nuts and bolts of how to become a happy couple and remain so all your life. In effect, you will get a guarantee card. Read this article carefully as this may change your life forever.
Research says that beyond the honeymoon period, most marriages become unhappy because husband and wife keep growing apart with time. Go to a restaurant and watch couples looking across each other and talking only 20% of the time instead of being in an interesting conversation for 80% of the time. What is happening ? This is NOT companionship and these type of couples are just drifting through life.
Let me now share the TWO Golden Rules to get anyone’s married life onto a solid track for all times to come.
GOLDEN-RULE-1 : GROW TOGETHER.
The real reason couple drift apart Is because they do not engage enough with each other in their daily lives. Many may not even know how to do it. Here are the Mantras that will make you grow together.
BE ON THE SAME PAGE.
DISCUSS MONEY.
DO IT TOGETHER.
ATTEND A SATSANG.
If you just follow these then the rest of the matters of life will fall in place automatically.
GOLDEN-RULE-2: SWITCH ROLES.
You would never know the concerns, priorities and challenges of your partner unless you step into each other’s shoes.
Let the wife handle taking a loan starting from negotiating till signing all the documents. Let her research and make the next two financial investments. Let her accompany the husband when he visits a government office to deal with property or other matters.
In turn, let the husband watch each chore that wife is doing, participate in some of them and take over part of the duties for that day or during the next week. It may be just making a list of groceries, attending PTA meeting, taking the kids for their sports or cleaning the flower pots.
There is no better way to include each other in your lives than doing all these things.
THE TAKEAWAY
Happy couples are not luckier or smarter. They just do the right things. If you can follow these TWO Golden Rules – even for six months – you will get your lifetime guarantee card to live happily ever after.
I really consider the TWO Golden Rules given in this article as the magic formula for a happy married life.
Just Do It And Become A Happy Couple.