Let’s be honest here for a moment, marriage is very much an adult business. When kids do it, they might be good at it but they really have no idea of what they are getting into. It’s important to realize that when you get married, in many ways you are throwing caution to the wind. You have to be ready for anything when you dive into a long-term relationship and if it frightens you – if you are easily turned away from the hard path – then the path of marriage may not be the one for you.
The Sense of Humor
So what you need to survive any marriage, any situation in marriage and honestly most days that we have to struggle through anything is a sense of humor. Enjoy your laughter and your humor and if I can help out with a few of the following bits and bytes – then good – we can all use a little more practice with laughing.
According to Dave Barry: Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result of being that they get on each other’s nerves and regularly erupt into vicious emotional shouting matches over such issues as toaster settings.
Friday’s Marriage Funnies
- If a man stands alone in the forest and there are no women around to hear him speak — is he still wrong?
- The most perfect marriage is made up of a couple who knows they have an imperfect marriage
- Love is not free and neither is anyone who is in love
- Do not marry someone you can live with – marry the one you can’t live without
- Marriage may be made in heaven, but so are thunder, lightening and earthquakes
- When it comes to marriage, someone needs to be good at taking orders
- Courtship looks beautiful in the catalog and marriage is what actually grows in your garden
- Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get
- Experience is what you learn when you don’t get what you want
- The great thing about being flawed is the humor it brings to others
- Some people disapprove of making fun of marriage and those of us who are married know it’s the way we get through our days
- Marriages are like casseroles – it’s the ingredients in each one that make them special
- Wives have 2 complaints: nothing to wear and not enough close space
- Monogamy is having one wife too many