Our Love Will Continue to Grow
You are a couple of love birds who hardly every have a spiff. ”I love you, you love me, we’re a happy family.” I am sincerely happy for you but marriage is a difficult task to be successful at.
Ingredients for a great marriage: Love + Respect + Humbleness + Forgiveness = A marriage that can survive. Wife, respect your husband. Make him feel like a man. Husband, love your wife. Make her feel like she is your cherished treasure. Both of you learn to be humble. Remember, there are no winners in marital fights. Both of you are human, so learn to forgive and do it as quickly as possible.
He’ll Lower the Toilet Seat
At first he probably will and then one night after you called him a momma’s boy, watch out! Splish splash, you are swimming in the toilet. If he loves you, he will remember to lower that lid. If he loves you but is forgetful, then give him time to form the habit of good toilet seat etiquette.
She’ll Quit Nagging
Both of you need to learn how to communicate in love. If she begins to nag you then let her know in the nicest way possible that you don’t feel respected. At first she may not want to hear it but this will save you a lot of trouble in the long run.
Nagging doesn’t work! When women nag, men don’t do what it is the woman is nagging about. Men don’t want to be told what to do and especially by woman.
The best thing a man and wife can do is to create a to-do-list. Wife, put your requests on the to-do-list. Husband, start working on the to-do-list. Remember to love and to respect. The to-do-list helps accomplish just that.
My Love is Their Love
Did you know that the way you love to be loved may not necessarily be the way your spouse loves to be loved? For example, my wife is loved when I do things for her. When I wash the dishes, vacuum, do the laundry, etc. then my wife is loved.
I like it when my wife does those things but I am more loved by physical touch, and no not necessarily that kind. Some times a hug will suffice. Find out what each other’s love language is and fulfill it.
Saying “Don’t Worry About It” Fixes Everything
“Hunny, we can’t pay the bills!” You say in response, “Don’t worry about it, it’ll be fine.” Will it? It is actions and not words that fix problems. Have a plan. Let Dave Ramsey teach you how to budget. Communicate, work hard and plan a head. Then everything may be okay.
Summary
- Use the formula found in the first lie so that you can have a marriage that will survive.
- Give him time to develop the habit of lowering the toilet seat.
- Don’t nag, rather use a to-do-list.
- Learn each other’s love language.
- A successful marriage equals a successful plan
Are there any other lies that you could add to the list?
My wife had an ingenious ploy to make me keep the toilet seat down. Every time I would pee she would come up behind me and try to give me a wedgie. So now anytime she is around, I have to sit down to go to the bathroom..haha
Um, I still stand to pee. I’m not European after all.
Make that imagine go away !!!!!!!
What? Me standing to pee or Bearman setting like a lady to pee?
Hahaha -
reminds me of the toilet / toilet seat scene from the Big Lebowski…
I haven’t seen it. John Goodman?
Goodman plays a major role in the movie, but that scene is Jeff Bridges.
Marriage sounds like way too much work. Maybe I’ll just rent a robo-maid or something.
Where can on purchase one of these robo-maids?
The Stepford wives
And I’m also working on my own Wombie version.
Leaving the seat down isn’t my problem. My problem is wiping the seat dry.
ewh
The problem in my house has gone from leaving the seat up to a fun new game called “crossing streams”. Anybody heard of it? Pee on the seat is the least of my problems.
…and thankfully my husband does not partake in this exciting new game, just my boys.
Are they peeing at the same time or something?
The object of the game is to race your partner while crossing streams…in the same toilet at the same time. Whoever finishes peeing first wins. It’s a popular game for the 10 and under crowd in my house. I think they learned it on the school bus…damn bus.
The school bus I rode when I was a kid smelled of urine at times. I hated that bus.
He’ll lower the toilet seat??? Only in her dreams…
I have a 97% toilet seat lowering rate.
I could never understand. If I have to put the toilet seat down all the time, why can’t she look to put it up. I don’t fall in when I have to get my squat on. I peep the situation first.
I have always thought this also but when I say it out loud people think I am coldhearted.
I guess we’ll never win that one. It’s like the old toilet tissue debate. Hang it over or under. I’ve got my preference, but that doesn’t seem to matter any.
Hang it over!!
I took the easy approach – sit down. Trust me, with a lack of depth perception, a standing pee is frequently a shot in the dark – literally, when the bathroom has no door and the light shines right into the bed. Besides, when you have a gamey leg, sitting takes on a certain appeal – it’s easier to read or play games on the laptop.
When it comes to the topic of peeing I am more of a pee in less than 10 seconds kind of guy. No time for sitting. Of course this gets more difficult as I get older. Let’s just say that I can’t write my name in the snow anymore.