List Of 50 Key Ingredients Of A Happy Marriage

It’s the Valentine’s season! At Prime Business Africa, we encourage you to share and show love without holding back. Here is a list of top 50 ingredients to add so your marriage can stew up this Valentine period.

1. Spend time together
2. Look after your spouse when they take ill
3. Make each other comfortable to be themselves
4. Support any career path they choose
5. Seeing each other at your worst and best
6. Have regular cuddles
7. Respect your spouse in front of others
8. Plan together always
9. Be proud of your spouse’s achievements
10. A little fun – be silly with each other
11. Explore new places together
12. Develop good sense of humour if you lack one
13. Try new things together
14. Don’t forget important occasions
15. Before taking decisions, consult your spouse
16. Distribute chores fairly
17. Show an interest even if you don’t know what your spouse is talking about. You just might learn a few things new
18. Forgive their bad habits
19. Do things your spouse wants to do, even if you don’t enjoy it
20. Say “I love you” at regular intervals
21. Say “good morning” and “good night” even if you are the man
22. Listen to the other grumble about work
23. Go on weekends away together
24. Don’t go to sleep on an argument
25. Please turn a blind eye when the other is grumpy
26. Accommodate TV shows you don’t like
27. Be nice to their family. Get on with the in-laws. Try.
28. Don’t allow money put asunder
29. Forgive whether your spouse is sorry or not
30. Say sorry not because you are wrong but because your spouse is hurting
31. Go to some length to make one another laugh
32. Laugh about arguments afterwards
33. Take good note when they mention what they really like
34. Accommodate their friends
35. Pick your battles with love
36. Play hard
37. Surprise them with gifts
38. Sing their song to your friends
39. Share your meal when eating out – makes the meal tastier
40. Say they still look cute when they’re looking their worst
41. Be comfortable with going to the toilet in front of each other
42. Stay put in trying times
43. Leave nice messages for one another
44. Practically live for each other
45. Agree on when in-laws, family and friends visit
46. Still bawl hard even when the kids arrive
47. At least one of you should be a voice of reason
48. Regularly deliver tea or coffee in bed
49. Always take one another’s side even if they’re not right
50. Have no gender roles

**Which in this list is your favourite? Please tell us in the Prime Business comment section. Thanks.**