Six Habits of a Happy Couple
by You see them and wonder how are they married and still happy? Here are some habits that keep Happy Couples Happy.
A Happy Couple Finds Joy in Each Other, Every Morning
I love his hair in the morning, the way it sticks up at the top of his head like a rooster. I want to kiss him! A happy couple finds joy in the essence, appearance, and movements of their partner each morning and they anticipate them. He loves my warm sleepy smile and my soft housecoat. Every morning when we awaken regardless of our sleepy eyes we kiss each other and hug each other. Our love begins each morning with an action of love for each other and then we make our way to the coffee pot. A happy couple in the morning is a happy couple at night.
A Happy Couple Compliment Each Other
I read recently a piece of advice given by a young child to husband that went something like “tell your wife she looks pretty even if she looks like a truck” How cute! Kind words are connectors that bind together the bonds of a happy couple. Compliments are the fusions. A happy couple compliments each other. Being generous enough to speak out loud what we like about our mate gives them a soft place to fall if times of doubt should arise.
A Happy Couple Minds their Own Business
By this I mean they focus on each others desires and wants, rather than what the neighbor’s wife had to say about her husband or the mechanic had to say about his wife. Every relationship is a unique miracle and a happy couple keeps their eye on there own miracle. Just as we do not go to the neighbors’ and bring their furniture into our home we also do not come home with the perceptions another had for their relationship. A happy couple knows the miracle of their relationships foundation and is never swayed by the foundation of others relationship.
A Happy Couple Prays with Each Other
My husband and I both welcome a higher power into our lives. We realize there is something far greater than us. This higher power wants to offer us a life of everlasting happiness. When I was in my teens every time the phone rang my sister and I would nearly knock each other over in hopes to be the one to pick it up. She got there first a lot and many times she would say “It’s for you”. I would yell “see! Why wouldn’t you just let me answer it?’ There is no room to grow when someone does something for us always. The roots of living together begin with praying with each other, not for each other. Prayer is not a battle when it comes to a happy couple. A happy couple seeks direction and answers FOR life together.
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Post Commentnutuba
On January 9, 2009 at 1:41 pm
These are wonderful rules that every couple should add in to their relationship! Well done.
Little Miss Lizzy
On January 9, 2009 at 1:56 pm
This is a great article and simple but important advice. Thanks.
Jasin
On January 9, 2009 at 3:23 pm
Great article, wonderful tips.
Colleen Ranney
On January 9, 2009 at 6:43 pm
Thank you for your comments! I appreciate them. Here’s to all lovers.
Debra.
On January 10, 2009 at 1:41 am
That was a lovely and enjoyable article!
Very nice, Colleen.
God bless.
Christine Ramsay
On January 10, 2009 at 4:20 am
A wonderful article. You are so lucky to have found such a love.
Christine
QuinMonty86
On January 10, 2009 at 11:08 am
Great, simple, advice that really works. I know that from some of my work, some must think I have a horrible marriage. I don’t. We have a wonderful marriage. I just have 23 years of things to draw from. How we’ve gotten to where we are now. You have learned early! Good job.
Joie Schmidt
On January 10, 2009 at 10:27 pm
Such a sweet, good, positive article!*
Blessings.
Sincerely,
-Liane Schmidt.
nobert soloria bermosa
On January 11, 2009 at 2:34 am
this is great,a nice formula for a happy marriage,thanks
Ziggy C
On January 11, 2009 at 1:33 pm
Great advice, and while they may seem simple, I think that there are many people who find these rules hard to follow.
Colleen Ranney
On January 11, 2009 at 7:26 pm
Wow lots of comments. QuinMonty86, unfortunately I was married for 7 years divorced and then had a partner for another 7 years (but didn’t marry him) until I got this time around PERFECT. I just married him on December 6 2008. I was so wrong before! haha!
Liane and Nobert thank so much for your comments.
Robbie, yes perhaps they would be hard to follow, but I look at them more not as rules but rather principles. A principle we can adopt and are attractive where rules must be obeyed and usually are unattractive.
Thanks for the comments
Laura Tamayo
On January 13, 2009 at 5:29 pm
I love the way you end this piece: As Frank Crane said-“Habits are safer than rules; you don’t have to watch them. And you don’t have to keep them either. They keep you.”
Hear hear!
Penny
On February 2, 2009 at 1:13 pm
Now that I know what the habits are I can go find someone who wants to be a happy couple with me … and I’ll be one step ahead of the pack … lol
I believe everything you write and you are so blessed to have found the half of you that completes the equation … as is he …
Colleen Ranney
On December 20, 2009 at 7:24 am
Thank Laura!
Penny, is that you aunt Penny? Yes I believe it is possible for anyone, we just travel through a series of learning first and even now when I am with the perfect man for me I am still learning. I’ve heard it said before if you arenot growing you arenot living!
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