The Rules for Marriage电子书

Contents

Foreword

Rule 1

Relax during the Engagement and Wedding

Rule 2

Continue to Be ‘a Creature Unlike Any Other’

Rule 3

Keep Your Own Life

Rule 4

Lower Your Expectations in the First Year

Rule 5

Be a Team

Rule 6

Accept that Some Things Are None of Your Business

Rule 7

Let Him Win

Rule 8

Be Supportive

Rule 9

Don’t Ask Your Single Friends for Marital Advice

Rule 10

Try Not to Call Him Too Much at Work

Rule 11

Don’t Expect a Lot of Sympathy from Him

Rule 12

Give Him 15 Minutes Alone When He Comes Home

Rule 13

Don’t Use the ‘D’ Word

Rule 14

Don’t Engage – and Other Rules for Rows

Rule 15

Say What You Mean in the Nicest Possible Way

Rule 16

To Compare Is to Despair – Don’t Compare Him to Other Husbands

Rule 17

Have a Family Dinner at Least Once a Week

Rule 18

Have a ‘Date’ Night

Rule 19

Don’t Force Him to ‘Talk’

Rule 20

Don’t Hang on His Every Word

Rule 21

Do Things You Don’t Want to Do

Rule 22

Rarely Return His Gifts

Rule 23

He Can Say Anything about His Family – But You Can’t

Rule 24

Don’t Try to Do It All

Rule 25

Rules for Sex

Rule 26

Rules for Pregnancy

Rule 27

Listen to His Advice and Try to Appreciate It

Rule 28

Make Him Feel Like He’s the Most Important Person in Your Life

Rule 29

Don’t Nag

Rule 30

Don’t Complain about the Kids

Rule 31

Keep It to Yourself

Rule 32

Don’t Expect Applause for Doing Chores

Rule 33

Don’t Shout

Rule 34

Don’t Find Fault with Things You Knew about When You Married Him

Rule 35

It’s Easier to Stay Married than Get Married

Rule 36

Don’t Be Surprised If Your Husband Lies

Rule 37

Don’t Go Changing or Trying Too Hard

Rule 38

Realize that Your Marriage Is Over If He Cheats Even Once

Rule 39

Don’t Think Marriage Guidance Is the Answer

Rule 40

Divorce with Dignity

Rule 41

Date Again as Soon as Poss

Rule 42

Listen to What Men Say

Rule 43

Rules for Second Marriages

More Rules from Happily Married Women

Final Thoughts from a Rules Facilitator

Fifteen Extra Hints

Also by the Author

Copyright

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