I will appreciate contributions from married people with not less than 5yrs experience. Pls be matured in your replies.

Several ingredients are required but I will name three I consider very important from experience:
1. Love
2. Understanding
3. Resources (including money)

gfhotee:

I will appreciate contributions from married people with not less than 5yrs experience. Pls be matured in your replies.

The logic to it is by not having a mindset that leads to to thinking as the green above.LOL
Basically,you learn happy marriage by internship. You understudy happily married people around you. I mean real people,not characters in novels or on tv.Most smiling celebrities are in real life not happily married. If you find that you are surrounded by many people who are not happily married,then pull away from them. Move closer to and get surrounded by happily married people.
Do not be tempted to listen to those high pitch sounding religious leaders.They only do lots of talking and hardly ever practice what they say.

Logic for happiness is simple: PATIENCE.
A short tempered person's marriage can never last and patience to also know and understand whom one is marrying.

No external family / friend interference

1. Never TRUST your spouse, especially a CHRISTIAN ONE.   Let everyday come with a 'pleasant' surprise.

2. Stay employed at all times.

3. Keep no secrets. . . if you wanno do 'extra-curricularly'. . .Doooooooooooo AM/DEM Wellllu Wellllu!!!!!! He or she has a choice to leave or stay. Never be a hypocrite.

4. Keep extended family members OUT of your house and business!!!

5. Report any domestic violence incident to the cops THE FIRST TIME IT OCCURS. . . So that abusive spouse can have A RECORD. . . just for THE RECORDS. God help those who are in Nigeria or other countries without a working 'racist' police force for protection.

6. Never be afraid of a divorcee. Be prepared ALWAYS!!! If you start developing high blood pressure, it is time to ditch that spouse of yours. . . weda he/she caused it or not.

7. Do not have 'common' friends with your spouse. Too much distracting gossips to irritate ya.

8. Born again Christians have the HIGHEST rates of divorce amongst all other Christian groups. Don't become one.

9. Never hoard your kids from your spouse. Chain them to his or her ankles and share equal responsibility for them so the get to KNOW you both EQUALLY. Less chances of divorce for ya IF YOU WANT YOUR MARRIAGE TO SUCCEED. Too bad you decided to procreate with a pedo-phile, ashewo, con-artist, cultist, rap.ist, gbobo ero. . .gbo gbo ero.
Papa na papa, mama na mama. . . you can never be replaced!

10. Spend some time together away from the house. . . meet in hotel rooms(your matrimonial bed becomes very unromantic after 2 years of marriage trust me, especially if you do not drink or smoke 'IGBO'!!! ). . .and act like each other's 'WHORES'. . . .Romantic. Mwaaaaah!!!

Oh, btw. . . .keep a few exes handy for 'relief-pitchin' duties. . . when the bloody dee.k or poohsie goes reeeeeeeal stale on ya. You only saving grace too.

LEAVE GOD OUT OF YOUR BUSINESS TOO. . . .!!! LET HIM DO HIS OWN JOB, WHILE YOU CONCENTRATE ON YOURS!!!

Become partially blind, deaf and dumb.