Saturday, August 8, 2009

How to Stay Happy in Marriage For Life

To stay happy in marriage may seem like a difficult task when we constantly hear of high divorce rates, domestic violence and couples in long term relationships where all passion has bled from the marriage making it dull and grey and ... unhappy. This does not need to be the case for you however if you learn how to adjust your actions to build a strong foundation that weathers any storm and that you can build a place for the two of you and your family that is full of love, happiness and contentment.
You cannot do this by expecting the world to do you a favor or by expecting your partner to be doing all the work or even sharing the load. While it can be frustrating to have an unsupportive partner when trying to build a happy marriage if you give in to the frustration it becomes a self fulfilling prophesy and you WILL become miserable and that misery will infect your spouse as well. Instead change for your marriage must come from change within yourself!

If you apply some simple marriage tips to the way you behave and speak with your husband or wife and you choose to be happy this breeds happiness which is also infectious! It is a well known psychological fact that if you make someone feel good and be happy they will feel indebted to you and will reciprocate those actions to give you back a measure of happiness two. This can become a perpetual happiness machine that even when hit by conflict and hardship will survive through those problems because of the connectedness and support you have built.

So if you are ready to take a shift in attitude and learn the skills to stay happy in marriage then click below to learn how to either tweak a good marriage into a great one or to turn a floundering one around and set it back on course for marital bliss. It is never too late to start this but the longer you leave it the harder it is to change

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