Eight Commandments for a Better Marriage

1. Respect each other. The most crucial of all commandments for a healthy and happy marriage is without doubt mutual respect, respect for the ideas, opinions and beliefs, friends, family, physical and moral integrity. Besides respecting each other try to show the consideration that you have for each other.2. Be honest. Lie, hide, don’t tell, keep just for yourself matters that concern both can be dishonest and if there’s something that doesn’t go along with marriage is the lack of honesty. From the reason why you arrive late at home three nights in a row, to the credit card bill, to the colour one chose to paint the living room, everything must be done with each other knowledge. No one wants to wake up some day to find he or she was living a lie.3. Know how to communicate. Communication is the base of all relations specially in a marriage. Words not spoken or spoken in the wrong way can cause severe damages in a relation. Think twice before you speak and a third one to make sure that you’re in the proper place to do so. Make the promise never to go to bed angry with each other, you’ll feel better if you straight things up.4. Support each other. If one of you is OK then both will be, or at least its like it should be. Make an effort to be aware of each other projects, to motivate to achieve your goals, be side by side in the moments of victory and failure. You should share your dreams and goals with each other. Don’t be glad with what you have always try to look for more and better.5. Be able to forgive. Resentments isn’t healthy in a marriage and so important as dialogue is the capacity to forgive.6. Share responsibilities, tasks and concerns. Even within a couple, there’s always one element that is the natural leader, who has a better organising capability, decide and make happen. However that person will only carry that weight for some time and not always. Before you reach the rupture, you share tasks, responsibilities and concerns.7. Make all the decisions together. As important as sharing tasks and concerns is to make the decisions together, at least the most important ones. A life project with another person must be planned together.8. Devote time for each other. To go for a walk, to do the things you like the most, to do nothing, to flirt, to be intimate, to talk, to laugh, to have fun, to remind what brought you together. There’s nothing left to say, is it?