Top Five Ways to Stay Happily Married

April 6, 2009 in Shameless Plugs, Unsolicited Advice | View Comments

I’m so excited! I recorded a podcast last week with Lee Rosen (@leerosen on Twitter), and it’s live today! The podcast is called Stay Happily Married and my episode is “A Romance Writer’s Guide to Marriage.” Check it out, I think it turned out great! Thanks Lee and everybody over there at Rosen Law Firm for putting this together. Here it is:

Anyway, in honor of my claiming expertise about a subject on which I have only 5 years of practical experience and no training to speak of, here are my tried, true, and tested Top Five Ways to Stay Happily Married:

  1. Never go to bed angry. Go to bed drunk, if necessary, but not angry.
  2. Go on dates once a week. Preferably, you know, with each other.
  3. Become independently wealthy so that money is no longer even an issue. (Ok, so I lied. This one is not really tried and tested. But I bet it’s still true.)
  4. Make sure there are two TVs in the house.
  5. Get a cleaning service. Then NO ONE has to vacuum or take out the trash.

All that wisdom is on the house. I’m generous like that. Get way more unsolicited advice from a non-expert at the podcast! I keed, I keed, it’s really great and I don’t think I sound like too much of a hack. (Right? Right?)

So, what’s your best marriage advice?

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  • Finally got to listen to the podcast! It was really great!
  • Thanks!
  • There's nothing wrong with #3. They say most marriages end in divorce because of money. Maybe if you have enough of it, life will be grand. Just don't be like that Madoff guy. ;)

    As for marital advice, I'm not married and not seeing anyone. So for what it's worth, trust your partner to take a seperate vacation when they want one with their friends. Both of your sanities will thank you for it.
  • Having never been married, I say:

    Make sure something is worth fighting over before you start a fight about it.

    (Will and I never fight, because the stuff that upsets us is so not worth fighting over. So we wait. And then if it is still upsetting we express it calmly and rationally. Or at least, I do. I think he never complains because he thinks/knows I'm ridiculously oversensitive.)

  • Woo, the podcast is live! Check out A Romance Writer’s Guide to Marriage: http://bit.ly/Oyvq


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