On my night table sits the
Book of Tips by Julio Silverio. It offers so many
tips about anything but not everything under the sun. I finished the book in one
sitting and was somehow enlightened. Let me share with you one tip which
hubby & I enjoyed reading:
49 Tips on Making marriage Happier & More Exciting:
What a Husband can do:
1. Kiss the back o your wife’s neck once a day.
2. Bring her flowers while she can still smell them.
3. Don’t think you always have to keep your chin up. Cry a little, she’ll love
mothering you.
4. Even if you have been married for a long time, compliment her cooking.
5. Ask your wife sometimes regarding business problems. Sometimes take it.
6. Bring home phonograph records of songs you both remember fondly.
7. Never say, “I had that for lunch today.”
8. Light her cigarettes - even if you have to walk across the room to do it.
9. Learn some new jokes for the sake of your wife.
10. Leave parties when she wants you to - within an hour or so.
11. Kiss her in public. She may looked embarrassed or sound sore, but she’ll like
it.
12. Never ask her “What have you done all day, dear?”
13. Send her presents for no reason at all.
What a Wife can do:
1. Don’t make him the family “meany”. Don’t tell your children,”Just wait till
your dad gets home”, or “I want to let you but Daddy says no.”
2. Don’t tell him your problems until you’ve fed him.
3. If it’s real disaster - like taking the fender off the car - make a special
dinner.
4. Buy a new negligee and wear it.
5. Learn to translate your husband properly. “You look okay” may mean “Darling,
you’re looking wonderful tonight.”
6. Remember the things you said and did to land him and try them again.
7. Don’t shush your husband if he sings at parties or acts the clown.
8. Don’t keep telling him he’s too old to do some of the things that he wants to
do.
9. If possible, be home when he gets there.
10. Put on your cold cream in the daytime, for housewives.
11. If he’s usually amorous and aggressive, turn the tables once in a while.
12. Pay cash for his presents - don’t buy him a gift and the charge it to him.
13. Don’t keep asking him, “Do you love me?” - and believe him when he says that
he does.
14. Don’t borrow his razor.
15. Don’t give him surprise parties.
What you Both can Do:
1. Treat each other occasionally as though you were meeting for the first time.
2. Don’t call each other Mother or Father, and stay away from the couples who
do.
3. Never sleep on a problem without a solution or an agreement.
4. Have a big Family Bible, read it together and enter family records on it.
5. Take up a daring sport that you can do together - like skin-ediving,
water-skiing, or mountain climbing.
6. Stop keeping up with the Joneses.
7. When one of you puts the first dent on the new car, laugh about it.
8. Don’t live all your life by the clock, don’t condemn the other about being
late.
9. Avoid getting mad at the same time.
10. Respect each other’s privacy.
11. Don’t sacrifice all your fun today for what you think may be security tom.
12. Take a walk in the rain together.
13. Spend the night at a hotel.
14. Make a family picture album together.
15. Have one night out alone at least once a month.
16. Switch of the tv and talk.
17. Always have some project going for the future - something to do, build, or
buy.
18. Build each other up in public. Don’t try to compete.
19. Stop going to parties that you don’t want to go.
20. Never begin a sentence with “After all I’ve done for you…”
21. Now that you are finished reading this, tell your husband/wife and that you
would do it all over again.
More tips to come….
Another tip I could share with you is to play games together. At least twice a month, my husband would go visit a
game torrents site and see if there are any new computer or playstation games to download. That's one bonding activity we look forward to. We do compete, yeah. But it's a healthy competition we have. At the end of the day, we have something to talk about and laugh at too. Try it.
