Marriage Advice You Don't Need

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30 Jun 2006 08:30 AM

Happy Friday, by the way! Happy end of June and an early Happy Fourth of July. If your area is like mine, the weekend ahead is populated by 4th of July events, celebrations, fireworks and more! So if you head out, be sure to take plenty of water - hydration is important and while evening hours may be cooler - you can still dehydrate! That pithy advice delivered, here's some fun for your Friday and a bit of marriage advice that no one needs.

Know Where Your Spouse is at All Times

Why bother with trusting your husband? Modern technology is letting us tag animals, children, cars and more? Why not just put a GPS tag on your spouse. That way, you can check on where they are at any given point in time during the day. You'll know whether they went to the mall when they said they were going to be doing housework and you'll know if they went out to dinner when they were supposed to be working late - you won't have to worry about whether they were ever telling you the truth again - you'll know.

Making Plans Doesn't Mean Asking Permission

You can make all the plans you want. Just tell your spouse where you are going to be. In fact, modern sensibilities means that you are an indivdiual first and the marriage is secondary. You certainly didn't become someone else when you married your spouse. If you want to spend a weekend in Vegas, just make sure you drop them a note so they know where to get ahold of you if it's important.

One of You Has to Stay Home

When you decide to have kids, the person who makes the most money should maintain their job and the other should give up their's to stay at home with the kids. If you make roughly the same amount of money, you should flip a coin. You have to live with the results of the coin toss. In the event that you really can't agree, try to line up work you can both do and then see if your employer will let you trade off - in other words, husband works a year and then wife works a year and so on and so forth.

You Deserve to Be Right

When you're right - your spouse must be wrong and they have to acknowledge that. It's okay to maintain your silence and keep your back to the wall until they admit they are wrong. The point of communication in marriage is to allow acknowledgement of when you are right.

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Heather Long is 35 years old and currently lives in Wylie, Texas. She has been a freelance writer for six years. Her husband and she met while working together at America Online over ten years ago.

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