By Alisa Bowman
When I was unhappy in my marriage, I thought that the difference between the happily married and the unhappily married was this: happily married people had better spouses. While there might be some truth to that, I now know that the difference has a lot more to do with how happily married people think. They see the world differently.
Happily married people know:
That it’s easier, faster and more efficient to directly ask for what they want than it is to hint about it. How to express their sadness, disappointment or frustration in words. They try not to express it with random acts of sabotage such as withholding sex, not taping their spouse’s favorite TV show or something else. How to accept defeat. They know that they will sometimes get what they want and they... More...
