Happy couples know that the real relationship begins when the honeymoon is over. They know that unless you maintain the garden of love, its beauty will wither and die. In a recent column, you discovered the 10 relationship mistakes to avoid. Now discover the 10 things that happy couples do:

1. Go to bed at the same time. Remember the beginning of your relationship, when you couldn’t wait to go to bed with each other to make love? Happy couples resist the temptation to go to bed at different times. They go to bed at the same time, even if one partner wakes up later to do things while their partner sleeps.

2. Cultivate common interests. After the passion settles down, it’s common to realize that you have few interests in common. But don’t minimize the importance of activities you can do together that you both enjoy. If common interests are not present, happy couples develop them. At the same time, be sure to cultivate interests of your own; this will make you more interesting to your mate and prevent you from appearing too dependent.

3. Walk hand in hand or side by side. Rather than one partner lagging or dragging behind the other, happy couples walk comfortably hand in hand or side by side. They know it’s more important to be with their partner than to see the sights along the way.

4. Make trust and forgiveness your default mode. If and when they have a disagreement or argument, and if they can’t resolve it, happy couples default to trusting and forgiving rather than distrusting and begrudging.

5. Focus more on what your partner does right than what he or she does wrong. If you look for things your partner does wrong, you can always find something. If you look for what he or she does right, you can always find something, too. It all depends on what you want to look for. Happy couples accentuate the positive.

6. Hug each other as soon as you see each other after work. Our skin has a memory of “good touch” (loved), “bad touch” (abused) and “no touch” (neglected). Couples who say hello with a hug keep their skin bathed in the “good touch,” which can inoculate your spirit against anonymity in the world.

7. Say “I love you” and “Have a good day” every morning. This is a great way to buy some patience and tolerance as each partner sets out each day to battle traffic jams, long lines and other annoyances.

8. Say “Good night” every night, regardless of how you feel. This tells your partner that, regardless of how upset you are with him or her, you still want to be in the relationship. It says that what you and your partner have is bigger than any single upsetting incident.

9. Do a “weather” check during the day. Call your partner at home or at work to see how his or her day is going. This is a great way to adjust expectations so that you’re more in sync when you connect after work. For instance, if your partner is having an awful day, it might be unreasonable to expect him or her to be enthusiastic about something good that happened to you.

10. Be proud to be seen with your partner. Happy couples are pleased to be seen together and are often in some kind of affectionate contact — hand on hand or hand on shoulder or knee or back of neck. They are not showing off but rather just saying that they belong with each other.

http://markgoulston.com/10-things-happy-couples-do/

I skimmed your epistle, then saw your pic . Guy don't pretend pure s3x doesn't make that list.

Noted

Not motivating

xynerise: Not motivating

He has spoken

The question is: How many Nigerian couples actually go on a honeymoon?...

Do people still go on honeymoon?

Flytefalls: I skimmed your epistle, then saw your pic . Guy don't pretend pure s3x doesn't make that list.

Hmmmmm....... I forgot to add that one baby! Pure sexxx indeed
is an essential factor!

nice one lol....

Pay the "Marriage Debt" - if any.

@Ijele-igbo I made a mistake looking at your profile pic. I think the moderator should censor sometimes pictures on this NL mschewwwwwww

Logging out.... Not for us.... We still dey do oringo forr now....

Ijele-igbo:


Hmmmmm....... I forgot to add that one baby! Pure sexxx indeed
is an essential factor!

U didnt forget to add it... Just that they didnt include it from where u copied it...

Tryna be original and pls, change Ur profile pix

Booty4me™:
Well AM NOT Married yet

Guess IT FOR THE mARRIED

FOLKS

nope...it's better u know it now so dat when u're married, it becomes easier for u.

How can I do this when I'm always practising ancient love?...unless I change to mechanical love and I hate canvass girls.l like woman wey tie wrapper and black shimmy or better still black pant.

u go just carry all these yanki people life style 2 buggle nigerians wit, weh plenty of our
parents dey fear 2 hold hand outside sef...sha, no wahala i will kip it all these!!

tpacalipse: Do people still go on honeymoon?

most people already finished d honey in the moon before getting married, so, there won't be need for any honey moon again..



which day i go carry 1st nau? God dey sha

@ op, nice write up.
I just hope you yourself do these.

Nice.i support almost all, but what's honey moon?

Haba, some kids are here, abeg moderators censor the op's profile pic.

OK

awww SMILES & HUGS.

sophy09: @Ijele-igbo I made a mistake looking at your profile pic. I think the moderator should censor sometimes pictures on this NL mschewwwwwww

Hahahahaha I felt the same way too lol

correct

Hello Modasuckers!!!!! Nice write up,lol... Latest Jjc in the building!!!! am new here,hope i have a wonderful stay.lol

Mehn, still scared of getting married...........i need 999 more.... op. please copy as much as possible.

Ijele-igbo:


Hmmmmm....... I forgot to add that one baby! Pure sexxx indeed
is an essential factor!

whats pure sex? Papa and mama style? Or doggy ?