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Creating a happy marriage begins with choosing the right spouse.

Happy Wives Club: One Woman's Worldwide Search for the Secrets of a Great Marriage

You can either feed negative thoughts or you can starve the suckers.

Happy Wives Club: One Woman's Worldwide Search for the Secrets of a Great Marriage

Those who don't take themselves too seriously have marriages that seem to just be better.

Happy Wives Club: One Woman's Worldwide Search for the Secrets of a Great Marriage

Every happily married person I interviewed on my trip was grateful for his or her spouse, thanking God daily for one another.

Happy Wives Club: One Woman's Worldwide Search for the Secrets of a Great Marriage

When you give a happy couple the opportunity to talk about what makes marriage great, it's like a water spigot you can't quite turn off.

Happy Wives Club: One Woman's Worldwide Search for the Secrets of a Great Marriage

Bonnie and Jerry told me they never run away fro disagreements. They face each one head-on. "By holding it in, you'll begin to slowly form a negative opinion of each other," Bonnie reasoned, "which means you can't work out what the disagreement is.

Happy Wives Club: One Woman's Worldwide Search for the Secrets of a Great Marriage

If you can figure out how to choose happiness in your marriage daily, and stop sweating the small stuff, it'll take ten years off your life.

Happy Wives Club: One Woman's Worldwide Search for the Secrets of a Great Marriage

In that conversation with Richard, Kris did precisely what she'd done before offering her tennis quitting advice from years before. She paid attention. Instead of getting swept up in a reaction--regardless of how legitimate it would have been--she un...

Happy Wives Club: One Woman's Worldwide Search for the Secrets of a Great Marriage

Happy marriages are alive and well. The cries of their demise have been highly overrated, and couples happily married do indeed exist.

Happy Wives Club: One Woman's Worldwide Search for the Secrets of a Great Marriage

Divorce was never a thought...A life together forever was our only plan.

Happy Wives Club: One Woman's Worldwide Search for the Secrets of a Great Marriage

I've known plenty of couples who choose to ignore budding problems or dissatisfactions because it's easier in the moment. But too much of that for long enough, and you all of a sudden have a huge problem on your hands, or a midlife crisis, or a broke...

Happy Wives Club: One Woman's Worldwide Search for the Secrets of a Great Marriage

Making love is not equivalent to love. But not making love is most certainly a waste. We didn't want to be wasteful.

Happy Wives Club: One Woman's Worldwide Search for the Secrets of a Great Marriage

Early in our marriage, we knew that once the kids were gone, we would still be married and have to work on it. So, we decided to pay it forward. We worked in the first year like we wanted things to be in the fiftieth year. I'm so glad we did.

Happy Wives Club: One Woman's Worldwide Search for the Secrets of a Great Marriage

Like most complicated things where it's easy to get derailed, their marriage was successful because they mastered the basics. From that mastery they could weather anything.

Happy Wives Club: One Woman's Worldwide Search for the Secrets of a Great Marriage

Sometimes your talent can steer you away from your passion.

Happy Wives Club: One Woman's Worldwide Search for the Secrets of a Great Marriage