If you want to have a long, happy marriage look around for other couples who have gone before you and built a successful, long-term relationship. And when such a couple who has been married happily  talks, listen!

Her is  a list of Ten Rules for a Happy Marriage from a couple who reached their 50th anniversary(recently) and successfully made their marriage a promise for life. See how many of these are rules you live by:

1. Never the both of you be angry at the same time.
2. Never yell at each other unless the house is on fire.
3. If one of you has to win an argument, let it be your mate.
4. If you must criticize, do it lovingly.
5. Never bring up mistakes of the past.
6. Neglect the whole world rather than each other.
7. Never go to sleep with an argument unsettled.
8. At least once every day say a kind or complimentary work to your life partner.
9. When you have done something wrong, admit it and ask for forgiveness.
10. Remember it takes two to make a quarrel.

Someone else said the difference between a successful marriage and an unsuccessful one is leaving just a few things unsaid each day. So we close this Marriage Builder with the sage advice from Odgen Nash:

"To keep love brimming in the loving cup, When you're wrong admit it and when you're right shut up!"

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