Laugh Your Way to a Better Marriage: Unlocking the Secrets to Life, Love and Marriage

If you believe your spouse is always mad at you, you will see only the things that support that belief. Any evidence that would suggest something to the contrary is simply filtered out. If you believe your husband doesn’t like to do the things you like to do, you will interpret any hesitation on his part toward doing something you enjoy (which may

In order to cultivate a successful, long-term relationship, you have to learn how to cultivate a genuine desire for each other, and desire has to be constantly rekindled. I’m not talking about sexual desire, though that is included; I’m talking about the spark that affirms in your gut, I want to be with that person for the rest of my life.

We tend to naturally act the way people expect us to act. People’s expectations influence us. This certainly holds true in marriage; each partner’s beliefs and expectations of the other will either liberate us to be able to change or lock us into the changeless past.

“Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence and if anything is worthy of praise, let your mind dwell on these things.”

Why would a woman leave the parents who love her unconditionally for a man whose love is so inconsistent? Why would any sane person agree to so rotten a deal? Because a man can give a woman the one thing her parents cannot. Her parents can love her. But only he can choose her. He can make her feel special and unique.4

we need to watch ourselves so we do not succumb to the temptation to jump on our spouse in a judging or criticizing fashion. He says we need to be “gentle” in the process. If you feel angry or restless (antigentle emotions) and you want to deal with the issue immediately, be watchful—you can hurt more easily than help if you are in an emotional tiz

I believe this rarely acknowledged issue is one of the main contributors to so many women being unhappy in their marriages today. My best advice to young would-be grooms is this: Don’t take the girl away from her support structure of friends and family. If you want to live in L.A., then marry a girl from L.A. Any man who marries a woman and then mo

I’m not suggesting that all mind reading is bad.

When men communicate, we generally say what we mean and mean what we say. If we didn’t say it, we didn’t mean it, and if we did say it, we meant only what we said—not what you think we meant by what we said. Women don’t buy that. They are constantly looking for the “deeper meaning.” But when you dig and keep on digging to search for a man’s deeper