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Doing Things To Keep Your Partner Happy

June 5th, 2011

Keep Your Partner Happy – Keep Your Marriage Strong

We should all do things to keep your partner happy even though sometimes we may not want but it helps to keep the peace and it makes them happy. If you care about your marriage and you care for your partner you should want them to be happy.

Some might say it is a little cynical to do things that you don’t really want to do just to please your partner but doing things for others is the best feeling in the world and it can give you an enormous sense of satisfaction.

An Example Of Doing Things To Keep Your Partner Happy

Let’s take a simple example of doing things to help keep your partner happy like putting out the trash. It is usually seen as the husbands job and most husbands seem to find it a bit of a pain and tend to forget. In terms of boosting a mans ego, putting out the trash isn’t exactly up there at the top of the list alongside saving a damsel in distress or saving the world.

Putting out the trash is one of those things that, to many men, seems so unimportant it gets forgotten. It doesn’t mean he doesn’t love you because he forgets. It just means it is a nuisance task that he pays no importance to and he forgets. But… it helps to keep your partner happy and that should help make you and your marriage happy too.

Doing Things To Keep Your Partner Happy – Misunderstandings

To the wife it may seem like he doesn’t care about her feelings when he forgets the trash. He doesn’t listen to what she says. He just doesn’t seem to give a hoot about their marriage. He just doesn’t care. Sadly,  misunderstanding your partner like this can be the most powerful and most destructive force in relationships.

However, if the trash is remembered and it is taken out, it may be no fun and it may not boost the macho rating of the male, in his eyes but it will help keep your partner happy. He wants to imagine himself as a  James Bond type of guy but putting the trash out makes him feel more like Mr Loser from nowhere town. What he needs to keep in mind is that remembering to put the trash out may do wonders for his partners opinion of him. To him it is an unimportant and demeaning task but to her, the fact that he remembers and he cares is very important.

Marriage Is Made Up Of Lots Of Tiny Little Thoughts and Feelings

These little things matter. Marriage is made up of lots of tiny little thoughts and feelings but together they can build something wonderful. Every time one of those little things is positive it strengthens the marriage and makes it better. Ever time one of those little things is negative it digs away at the foundations of marriage and weakens the structure and can lead to the whole edifice coming crashing down.

Marriage is something that can be strong and powerful but like a building needs maintenance to keep it in good repair so does a marriage. Doing things to keep your partner happy is no cynical or manipulative. It is doing something for someone you care about because you care about your marriage and there can be no finer motivation than that.

Keeping Your Partner Happy – Taking Things Too Far?

This video shows a couple who care about making each other happy but maybe this is taking this a little too far but it also shows that doing things to help keep your partner happy may encourage them to do the same for you.



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