[MountainMomma]

What is the best piece of marriage advice that anyone ever gave you? Share it with us here.

[MamaAnna]

I'm surrounded by bitter divorcees, the only advice they gave me was not to get married! I applied rules that I already knew from growing up.

1) You need to accept a person for who they are, flaws and all. Nobody is perfect and you shouldn't expect them to be. If you can't stand their flaws, don't get married!

2) Pick your battles! If you fight about every little thing you'll never stop fighting.

3) Talk to each other. So many relationships go sour because of a lack of communication. Just take some time each day to talk.

We very rarely argue, never go to bed mad, and get along beautifully so I think advising myself has worked great so far!

[MountainMomma]

The best advantage that anyone gave me came from my Dad. He told me to never go to bed angry even if that meant staying up for a week. And when a fight does happen, walk away. Don't leave that location, but walk away for a minute, calm down and them calmly talk things out together.

It's helped me a lot. Especially with this marriage. My first one was doomed from the beginning because of another piece of advice someone gave us. It was a great piece of advice, but just not specific enough. The advice:

Never stop dating. You have to keep the romance alive.

The guy just wasn't specific enough apparently because he didn't specify to my ex that we were supposed to keep dating EACH OTHER.

[Vicki...]

The best advice I have got was from my sister who has had some rocky relationships, but she basically says
"if you have a good husband never take him for granted, let him know everyday in some way how much he means to you, it has worked well for me but dh has gained allot of weight, i usually make his special treats.

My mom told me to "Keep your man happy at home, and he won't wonder", which isn't really good advice, cause some men are just gonna wonder, I have seen that too often, my dh hasn't but I have witnessed friends, and family's doing so.

[boysmama]

The best advice I heard was " Never tell anyone -especially your family- about any problems between you and your husband...you will get over it, but they might not". Over the years, this has proven true. I never tell my parents (or anyone else) when I have a disagreement with DH. No one knows how to deal wth DH like I do, so they might give me the wrong advice.

[MountainMomma]

.