Couples married for decades share relationship advice including expressing love every night, avoiding score-keeping, facing challenges together, and prioritizing the relationship over being right. Other tips discuss maintaining a strong relationship through love, romance, and mental compatibility, and ignoring societal expectations.
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The importance of consistently expressing love and performing daily acts of service in relationships.
The significance of maintaining individuality and embracing the imperfections of a relationship for a healthy and fulfilling partnership.
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Relationship Advice from Couples with 40, 50, and 60+ Years of Marriage
In this podcast episode, the host seeks relationship advice from couples who have been married for several decades. The participants share their wisdom and insights, accumulated over a total of 500+ years of marriage. The main points of advice include expressing love every night before falling asleep, not keeping score in love, laughing together, never stopping dating, performing daily acts of service without expecting recognition, addressing difficult conversations promptly, embracing the balance between joy and sadness, facing challenges as a team, maintaining individual interests and passions, emphasizing the power of love and apologies, not sweating the small stuff, prioritizing physical affection, building a family with strong values, maintaining the primacy of marriage over the birth family, not involving non-professional third parties in disagreements, cherishing the little gestures of romance, understanding that love is tested and can grow stronger, allowing each other to lead in different domains, disregarding the approval of others, and embracing the imperfections of a relationship.
The Importance of Love and Imperfection in Relationships
This podcast episode highlights the importance of love and acceptance in relationships. Couples with long-term marriages share their experiences and offer advice on maintaining healthy and fulfilling relationships. They stress the significance of consistently expressing love, not keeping score, laughing together, continuing to date, performing daily acts of service, addressing difficult conversations promptly, embracing the balance between joy and sadness, facing challenges together, maintaining individuality, prioritizing apologies and forgiveness, letting go of minor issues, showing physical affection, building a family with strong values, prioritizing marriage over the birth family, resolving conflicts privately, cherishing romantic gestures, understanding that love is tested but can grow stronger, allowing each other to lead in different domains, disregarding others' opinions, and finding joy in imperfections. Ultimately, the advice emphasizes the power of love in creating wonderful and fulfilling relationships.
My wife and I celebrated our 7th wedding anniversary on December 17th. To create something unique and memorable, I decided I would explore a bit of the relationship wisdom that time provides.
I asked couples who have been married 40, 50, and 60+ years a simple question: What relationship advice would you give to your younger selves?
The advice captured 500+ years of earned relationship wisdom.
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