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    Best Advice on Starting a Happy Marriage: 150 Ways to Keep Your Love Alive and Stay Together for Good
    Best Advice on Starting a Happy Marriage: 150 Ways to Keep Your Love Alive and Stay Together for Good
    Best Advice on Starting a Happy Marriage: 150 Ways to Keep Your Love Alive and Stay Together for Good
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    Best Advice on Starting a Happy Marriage: 150 Ways to Keep Your Love Alive and Stay Together for Good

    By Stacia Ragolia

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    More than 2,300,000 couples get married every year in America. And as each of these couples embarks on a new marriage, there's an almost universal hope for years of happiness. As any couple that's been married for longer than a week will tell you, achieving that dream takes work on the part of both partners. Best Advice on Starting a Happy Marriage presents real solutions from women who've navigated the course of marriage over the years and covers such topics as communication, fighting fair, and keeping the romantic flame alive. This book will inspire and help newlyweds as they build their union, and serve as a wonderful engagement, bridal shower or wedding gift.

    • If your goal is to achieve a solution to a problem, then two heads really are better than one. But if there is a need for one person to always be right, then the problem will just continue. Put the egos aside.
    • Remember that romance, and making up after a fight, is not just about flowers or sweet talk. Do thoughtful, practical things for your spouse to show you're sorry or that you care: pick up a special treat for him at the grocery store, or fill up a tank of gas when you know he'll be pressed for time.
    • Remember that you are best friends.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThomas Nelson
    Release dateMay 12, 2003
    ISBN9781418539528
    Best Advice on Starting a Happy Marriage: 150 Ways to Keep Your Love Alive and Stay Together for Good

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      Best Advice on Starting a Happy Marriage - Stacia Ragolia

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      Best Advice on

      STARTING A HAPPY MARRIAGE

      Foreword by STACIA RAGOLIA

      RUTLEDGE HILL PRESS™

      Nashville, Tennessee

      A DIVISION OF THOMAS NELSON, INC.

      www.ThomasNelson.com

      Copyright © 2003 by iVillage Inc.

      All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means—electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, or any other—except for brief quotations in printed reviews, without prior permission of the publisher.

      Published by Rutledge Hill Press, a Division of Thomas Nelson, Inc.,

      P.O. Box 141000, Nashville, Tennessee 37214.

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Best advice on starting a happy marriage / foreword by Stacia Ragolia.

      p. cm. — (iVillage Solutions)

      Excerpts from online discussions on the iVillage.com web site.

      ISBN 1-4016-0097-2

      1. Marriage. I. Series

      HQ734.B615 2003

      306.81—dc21

      2003005206

      Printed in the United States of America

      03 04 05 06 07 — 5 4 3 2 1

      CONTENTS

      Foreword by Stacia Ragolia

      Preface

      Chapter 1: How to Stay in Love

      Chapter 2: How to Communicate How to Handle the Tough Stuff

      Chapter 3: How to Handle the Tough Stuff

      Chapter 4: How to Deal with Money as a Couple

      Chapter 5: How to Live Together Happily—Forever

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      FOREWORD

      By Stacia Ragolia

      In my early twenties, before I myself wed, a friend of mine received a pair of Indonesian marriage dolls as a wedding gift. Traditionally, these dolls are placed outside the door of a couple’s house for the first year of their marriage. When the dolls are set next to each other, shoulder to shoulder and facing outward in the same direction, those visiting know that there is harmony in the house. How powerful, I thought—defining marital happiness not as gazing into each other’s eyes but looking out toward the same horizon.

      That every couple embarking on a marriage hopes it will be a happy one is a given. But making that a reality stymies at least half of all couples who say, I do; as the oft-quoted statistics show, about one in every two marriages ends in divorce. This book presents lessons from the other side of those numbers. The women who have contributed their advice to this book have, collectively, navigated hundreds of years of happy marriage. They represent the 50 percent who stay together.

      Like that older sister or aunt who has a few years of marriage under her belt and pulls you aside at the wedding reception to impart some of her advice, the women whose insights and solutions make up this book are here to give you pointers as you set out on an adventure we all hope will last your entire life.

      None of these women will pretend that arguments don’t occur, challenges don’t arise, or setbacks don’t crop up. Having a happy marriage, they’ll tell you, is not about avoiding problems, but learning how to deal with them—together. Whether the issue at hand is a depleted bank account, how to raise the kids (or even whether to have any), or whose turn it is to load the dishwasher, a couple needs to come at the situation with the belief that they’re ultimately on the same side. As one woman puts it, You are a team, living together as a unit. Treat your spouse the way you would want to be treated. No one is perfect. Address problems, learn from mistakes, and always look toward the future.

      Which brings us to some other powerful lessons happy couples know. You can deal with today’s problems if you base your actions on a belief that tomorrow you’ll still be together. Treating your spouse with respect helps you deal with situations rationally. And finally, a sense of humor helps turn even the worst moment around. My spouse and I have always agreed that we’d rather die laughing than live sadly, relates one of our contributors. It’s much easier to get past a bad joke than it is to take back hurtful words once spoken. So do

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