LEARN to communicate effectively
MAKE TIME for each other
Fight FAIR
Make a COMMITMENT to your relationship
Express APPRECIATION
Maintain a sense of HUMOR
Learn to COMPROMISE
Practice FORGIVENESS
Keep ROMANCE alive
TAKE TIME for yourself

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By Laurence Stains
You should see a videotape of your last fight. No, not the one you had with that loudmouth at the Rams game. I’m talking about the argument with your wife.
Do you have any idea what you looked like? I do. I recently spent three days with some marriage experts, watching couples fight. [...]

The National Marriage Project provides research and analysis on the state of marriage in America and educates the public on the social, economic and cultural conditions affecting marital success and child wellbeing.

Marital Status and Health: United States, 1999-2002.Advance Data, Number 351. 33 pp. (PHS) 2004-1250.
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A new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggests that married adults are healthier than divorced, widowed or never married adults.
The report, “Marital Status and Health: United States, 1999-2002,” was based on interviews with 127,545 adults [...]