MARRIAGE AND THE BEST YEARS

1. You need to know that, over the years, happiness creeps up on you. You realize one day that you’re eighty years old and still madly in love with him. Though he’s a wacko on football.

2. You need to know that research shows martial satisfaction rises when the kids hit the road.

3. You need to know many long-time married couples are wildly incompatible. They just agree to love each other, differences and all.

4. You need to know there is life after soccer practice, football games, proms, and college entrance exams. Like pets.

5. You need to know you’ll be tempted to ruin a professionally decorated living room with two La-Z-Boys.

6. You need to know you can now shop at all the places you couldn’t afford when you had college tuition payments.


7. You need to know the kids need to know when your monetary support will end.

8. You need to know to keep making passes at each other.

9. You need to know that even though you talk about moving to the mountains or the beach, you’ll live where your kids live.

10. You need to know that, after years of raising kids, paying off loans, dealing with health issues, and learning to live with each other, you’ll find bliss.

11. You need to know to thankGod for making it all possible.

12. You need to know that, after spending twenty-five or thirty years continually needing a bigger home, a
smaller one now has a lot of appeal. Of course, you’ll need to remodel it.