50 MARRIAGE TIPS

Here are the 50 tips from my poster: 

•  Get your own pints of ice cream.
•  Be in cahoots.
•  Neck like you invented it.
•  Get into the same TV shows.
•  Fist bump.
•  Find common ground.
•  Go to each other's stuff that sucks.
•  Fill prescriptions, pick up the dry cleaning, and leave the gas tank full.
•  Blow off important things just to spend time together.
•  Pick up after yourself.

•  Say please and thank you.
•  Sweat together.
•  Don't cheat.
•  Toss your ratty underwear.
•  Be yourself.
•  Clarify before you react.
•  Send naughty texts.
•  Work out a signal for when it's time to bug out of a party.
•  Pop by the office for a quick kiss.
•  Ignore bloating and blemishes.

•  Sit next to one another in restaurant booths.
•  Have each other's backs.
•  Keep breath fresheners in the nightstand.
•  Have quickies in the car.
•  Remember birthdays, anniversaries, allergies, favorite candy bars, inside jokes, and to say "I love you" even if it take setting reminders in your phone.
•  Make the bed together.
•  Seriously, don't cheat.
•  Enable each other's success.
•  Find quirks charming.

•  Talk about the things that matter and the things that don't.
•  Make one another the best bites at dinner.
•  Laugh a lot.
•  Give compliments.
•  Take compliments.
•  Ditch the kids for date night.
•  Tart it up sometimes.
•  Find a safe way to be honest when you answer "Do these pants make me look fat?"
•  Remember that there is more than one right way to load a dishwasher.
•  Get hobbies together.

•  Fight over things that are actually worth it.
•  Smell good.
•  Be proud of each other's talents and accomplishments.
•  Go on walks.
•  Hold hands.
•  Teach one another stuff.
•  Get frisky at the movies.
•  If one of you eats garlic, both of you eat garlic.
•  Play footsie.
•  Keep courting.

(Read this earlier post about how the poster came to be.)