20 Tips on Marriage

[Backroads]

Saw this on Facebook, had to share:

20 Marriage Tips Everyone Needs to Know

[Wingnut]

Is #12 something that really actually needs to be included on a list directed at men? Isn't it kind-of a given?

[Guest]

Good list, even if 12 made me blush. :)

[beefche]

Ok, ya'll got me curious on #12 and now all I can say is, "OH YEAH!"

[Bini]

Wow. #12 was just overkill for me. Super cheese.

[Lakumi]

sounded like a cheesy romance novel

minus Fabio

[beefche]

sounded like a cheesy romance novel

minus Fabio

Meh, it's just a great soundbite to make people click on their site more....whatever is said there isn't anything groundshaking...nothing new for anyone with a brain.

[Backroads]

I also found #12 a bit overly romantic. Though I do agree with the concept. Just not the passionate phrasing.

[Guest]

I thought it was kind of refreshing in a culture that's constantly trying to emasculate men.

[beefche]

I thought it was kind of refreshing in a culture that's constantly trying to emasculate men.

Which I will never understand. I LIKE the manly aspects of my husband (ok, not the can't throw the socks into the hamper parts).

[prisonchaplain]

#21 is "avoid using 'always' and 'never' in conversations--especially disagreements.

As an aside--the author used those words a lot. :-)

I liked that one was "be silly" and the other was "don't be an idiot." Life and marriage are all about balance, right?

[Windseeker]

Good list, even if 12 made me blush. :)

[Bini]

I thought it was kind of refreshing in a culture that's constantly trying to emasculate men.

I don't see the world that way but I do appreciate my husband's manliness and the role he has in our marriage. Like I tell people, I can be a feminist and still shave my legs.

[Bini]

Yeh, again, number 12 was totally barf worthy despite the message.

[Lakumi]

I told you, Fabio

[beefche]

Ok, call me a Fabio lover (which I'm not--he is not attractive to me), but I thought the wording on #12 was a very romantic description. But, then my love language is words of affirmation and I love, LOVE when my husband describes his feelings for me. And he knows my love of romance, so he has a very natural way of describing things in a romantic manner that makes my heart go pitterpat.

What's wrong with the romantic or passionate expression?

[Lakumi]

Ok, call me a Fabio lover (which I'm not--he is not attractive to me), but I thought the wording on #12 was a very romantic description. But, then my love language is words of affirmation and I love, LOVE when my husband describes his feelings for me. And he knows my love of romance, so he has a very natural way of describing things in a romantic manner that makes my heart go pitterpat.

What's wrong with the romantic or passionate expression?

everyone has a different idea what is romantic and/or passionate to them?

If I ever talked like that to the last girl I dated she would have laughed like crazy. Granted it sounds like something I would say, for a laugh, but I wouldn't have been taken seriously.

To be fair neither of us were ever really romantic

[beefche]

So, I'm curious. How would one reword that (or something similar--maybe no one wants to talk about initmacy, which is fine) that is romantic but not that type of romantic?

[Bini]

So, I'm curious. How would one reword that (or something similar--maybe no one wants to talk about initmacy, which is fine) that is romantic but not that type of romantic?

Speaking for myself, I don't have a problem with intimacy but that particular paragraph was just blegh, it was overdone to the point where the message wasn't received -- instead I was left feeling like.. I was covered in a gooey sticky cheesy mess.

[Lakumi]

So, I'm curious. How would one reword that (or something similar--maybe no one wants to talk about initmacy, which is fine) that is romantic but not that type of romantic?

I have no issue discussing it, but when I did it, it broke the law of chastity so, perhaps I shant divulge to much

[Guest]

Which I will never understand. I LIKE the manly aspects of my husband (ok, not the can't throw the socks into the hamper parts).

Amen on all counts, sister.

[Guest]

Windseeker. . . gross.

[Swiper]

Saw this on Facebook, had to share:

20 Marriage Tips Everyone Needs to Know

Looks a little on-sided, overly cheesy, and with a lot of platitudes. While the list claims to be for men, I suspect that the real target audience are women (who will send the list to their husbands).

My marriage tip for men: Buy your wife a horse.

[Lakumi]

Looks a little on-sided, overly cheesy, and with a lot of platitudes. While the list claims to be for men, I suspect that the real target audience are women (who will send the list to their husbands).

My marriage tip for men: Buy your wife a horse.

or a clamshell with two tickets to that thing she loves when then become diamonds, while you yourself are on the horse

[Sadsister]

I like the list, cheese and all. I think a good reminder of these things is never a bad thing.