Reply to: Tips for a happy marriage

[BrilloPad]

I'll try not to laugh when I hear that Ms. Brick is getting divorced (I give it another 2 years...)

Mr C loves me despite my being mercurial and irrational.

I love Mr C despite him being a little anal-retentve and exasperatingly rational over things that don't matter... (Yes, I know we already own a trangia and if we fancy a cuppa we'd take a flask with us and a hobo stove will probably end up cluttering the garage....)

We work on not letting these little things irritate out of all proportion.

I'm making a hobo stove anyway, but I'll compromise by throwing it away after I've played with it a few times...

I thought your top tip was not laughing when Brick gets divorced? I was going to try that and see if it saves my marriage.

[cojak]

(It's a bit old cos I did it when I was last benched.)

[SimonMac]

Don't be a jerk - just use the search.

You have just made NLUK redundant

You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to cojak again.

[cojak]

Don't be a jerk - just use the search.

[doomage]

Mr C loves me despite my being mercurial and irrational.

I love Mr C despite him being a little anal-retentve and exasperatingly rational over things that don't matter... (Yes, I know we already own a trangia and if we fancy a cuppa we'd take a flask with us and a hobo stove will probably end up cluttering the garage....)

We work on not letting these little things irritate out of all proportion.

I'm making a hobo stove anyway, but I'll compromise by throwing it away after I've played with it a few times...

Sorry, I'm new here - what is "Hobo stove" a euphemism for? Is it something to do with a happy marriage?

[cojak]

Mr C loves me despite my being mercurial and irrational.

I love Mr C despite him being a little anal-retentve and exasperatingly rational over things that don't matter... (Yes, I know we already own a trangia and if we fancy a cuppa we'd take a flask with us and a hobo stove will probably end up cluttering the garage....)

We work on not letting these little things irritate out of all proportion.

I'm making a hobo stove anyway, but I'll compromise by throwing it away after I've played with it a few times...

[Mupps]

Just do as you're told.

[doodab]

Mrs BP recommends single duvets in a king sized bed.

King size duvets, king size beds, separate houses

[Old Hack]

In my many years of marriage, in the early years, when I used to challenge what my wife said, we argued lots and it was bumpy.

In our later years of marriage, we have got along much better with the understanding she is right.

That's about as succinctly I can put it. Don't argue, just to argue, don't try and be right all the time and just let her know that you love, respect and adore her from time to time.

Do that, and life becomes much easier, so the times when you go out and buy a 999 Ducati, seem much easier for her to handle.

[cojak]

I'll try not to laugh when I hear that Ms. Brick is getting divorced (I give it another 2 years...)

[Support Monkey]

Keep a mistress?

WCMS no one is perfect so you have to make the choice sh*t in the bedroom but good at everything else or good at everything else and sh*t in the bedroom if you end up with the latter get a mistress, its the best of both worlds

[EternalOptimist]

as well as the obvious (flowers,choccies, listening) I would say, based on experience

1. never throw a pot noodle at her head
2. go temporarily deaf, lose sense of smell, if she ever does a little lady-f@rt
3. if she ducks, clean the noodles off the wall

[SimonMac]

Keep the mistress and wife from ever meeting?

FTFY

[ChimpMaster]

Keep a mistress?

[NotAllThere]

Don’t get married.

HTH

The question was not "how to be happy".