Man: I want to spend the rest of my life with you.
Woman: I will love you for the rest of my days.
Both: I want to grow old in love with you!
Aren’t the statements above too good to be true for a married couple? Actually, they aren’t. Many couples are successfully spending the rest of their lives loving and growing old with each other. The secret? It’s having a successful married life.
Given the higher divorce rate all over the world, married couples are in peril, thinking that they can never survive the struggles they both face in marriage. Yet, for most enduring couples, marriage is not as hard as it seems.
In fact, these happy couples are spending their lives in the loving and joyful arms of each other. They do fight, argue, and experience negative feelings towards each other sometimes. But being focused on wanting their marriage to last for many years and making each other happy, their marriage can never even lead to the brink of separation.
What does it take for a marriage to be successful then?
Here are some tips on what a couple must do to make their marriage last for the rest of their beautiful lives.
1.) Love – Two people are willing to bind their lives forever because they love each other. The love they felt for one another made them decide to spend the rest of their lives being in each other’s arms. The fact is, no marriage can ever survive if only one person feels the love for another and the other is not at all in love.
2.) Respect – Respect gives rise to acceptance. In accepting your partner, you will make him or her at ease and special in your sight. Respecting one another means that no flaws are used to reprimand another. Couples accept one another–whoever they are and whatever they might be doing. In respecting each other, couples will always feel confident and have the knowledge that there is always one person to accept them as they are.
3.) Communication – This is not limited to daily conversations. Asking your partner to pass the salt or to get you a beer does not sum up your communication to your partner. Communication between a couple entails discussions on what the other feels, how their day was, what they have accomplished, as well as important matters concerning them as a couple and their children.
4.) Privacy – although couples are deemed as one, they are still considered as private people with their own separate lives. Respecting one’s privacy will allow each partner to have the time they need for themselves. They need to work on with their own personal interests and allot time for them. This will allow each partner to have the space they need and go on doing what they personally aspire to do. Actually, having a separate interest would create a great conversation for the couple. A husband or a wife sharing his or her own interests to his or her partner will make the other glued in and feel interested in something new.
5.) Bond – setting apart time for a couple to be together will strengthen their bond for each other. Have a day every week for you and your partner to spend quality time together. Call a baby sitter and go out on a romantic dinner with a stroll in the park or a weekend getaway to a beautiful resort.
6.) Spontaneity – being spontaneous will bring spice to your relationship. Whether you spiced up your intimate moments or planned a surprise vacation for you and your partner, this will liven up your relationship, resulting in both of you looking forward to more fun and happiness in your many married years to come.
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