Royal Wedding – Happy Ending
Earlier this week we invited you to our Yahoo! Answers Royal Wedding Week! As it comes to an end, we wanted to thank our whole community for telling their proposal stories and sharing their tips on planning a perfect wedding.
Today, after much discussion about the gown, the guests, the vows, and much more, the long-awaited nuptials finally happened. As the beautiful bride walked down the aisle to the choral anthem “I Was Glad” by Sir Charles Hubert Hastings Parry, the prince now has his princess.
Congrats to Prince William and Princess Kate!
In celebration of the royal wedding, we wanted to ask our community one more question. We’ll award 100 bonus points to the user with the best answer. Now that the couple has said “I do,” we want to know…
Question: What is the secret to a lifelong successful marriage?
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I have been married for 38 years. My answer is very simple to an age old question – what makes a marriage last a lifetime? My answer is: LOVE and TRUST. If you have those two things, everything else is surmountable, no matter how tough things get – you face them together with love and trust – that takes care of all the rest.
i don’t ever remember my husband asking me. i’m pretty sure i ask him.
he recently gave me a ring
trust, understanding and love.
Honesty and Communication
The biggest recipe towards bad marriages is MONEY. My wife & I have never fought about money.I keep all the books on the finances & when she feels she wants to buy something.This prevents overdrafts,etc. And,YES! I do let her buy things & she has no insult to asking,that is why we have NO debt.
When I’m wrong,I will admit it.Even if it takes a couple days to sort it out. Same in reverse
How long before the divorce?
BP royalty at it’s finest, amirite?
I been married my husband for six years….we always trust & faith. I love my sweet pie..
I wish them all the best
i stopped reading at “happy ending” why? its not nearly over, how long before divorse? etc etc!
My dad’s cousin Andrew was one of the 1900 people that attended the royal wedding as he does work for the queen
STOP SHOWING THIS CRAP ON MY TV!
Clearly, the secret to a lifelong successful marriage is many happy endings.
THE SECRETS ARE:
1. Know Your Partner Well
Developing awareness of your partner’s tastes is among the keys to a happy married life. Your relationship can be shaped according to each other’s preferences. When you are aware of your partner’s dislikes, you can refrain from doing what will cause distress to your partner. This will ensure your partner that you are considerate of him or her, a factor that is of utmost importance in the successful achievement of marital harmony.
2. Make Decisions Together
Making decisions together is also a key to achieving happiness in marriage for three reasons. First, this practise enables the couple to work in collaboration to reach a decision. Second, both get equally involved in the decision making. Third, if only one person makes a decision that ultimately turns out to be a bad one, it could lead to resentment.
3. Balance Your Work and Life
You have to pay a lot of attention to your married life to ensure its success, which means that you should learn to balance between your career and personal life. Sometimes, you could get very much involved in your career and push married life to the background. You have to put in some effort to prevent this from happening.
You have to realize that there is no career in the world that holds as much importance as your married life. At the same time, it cannot be denied that sometimes you have to work at weekends and in the late evenings too. But make an honest attempt to minimize these situations.
Try not to bring your work home. In short, don’t allow your career to interfere with your married life. If you place too much emphasis on your job, your marriage will naturally suffer. You can talk about your day at work or vent about some problem you might be facing with employers or colleagues, but otherwise, keep the office where it is and don’t let it wreck your married life.
4. Don’t Focus on Disagreements
All marriages have their share of problems and discords. It is important not to prolong an argument. If ever you disagree, try to come to a friendly conclusion. If this is impossible, at least agree to disagree and proceed with your married life.
Everyday is a new beginning. Forget the disagreements or arguments of the previous day when you wake up to each day. In spite of your honest attempts, if you were unable to work out a solution to the problem, forget about it and go on with new day harmoniously.
5. Agree on Financial Matters
Another key to a happy married life is to come to an agreement on financial issues. Financial matters create a lot discord in married life. Both partners should develop awareness about financial situations and establish a budget that is easy to stick to. This will prevent any arguments related to financial issues in married life.
6. Agree on Critical Issues before Marriage
Before getting married, know your partner well and discuss major issues. For instance, it will be disastrous to discover after marriage that your partner does not want any children while you want to become a parent. Differences of opinion on such crucial matters can utterly destroy a marriage. Make sure that you marry someone only after coming to an agreement about critical matters such as this. It will prevent problems cropping up in your married life in the future.
7. Don’t Discuss Sensitive Issues
Keep away issues that might create discord in your married life. While it is perfectly alright to have opposing points of view regarding politics or religion, it is not acceptable to allow your differences in opinion to cause a split in your married life. You can enjoy a harmonious married life if you respect your partner and his or her opinions.
8. Give Each Other a Lot of Space
Give each other a lot of space to ensure a happy married life. Spending a lot of time with each other can be suffocated. So, it is as important to be apart as it is to be together and communicate matters pertaining to your interests. The time that you spend apart from each other not only protects the marriage but also enables each partner to retain his or her individuality.
9. Respect Your Spouse
Respecting your partner is of paramount importance in marriage. Couples that show a lot of respect to each other and to themselves can be civil to each other even during a disagreement. Respect always promotes peace and happiness in married life.
10. Share Household Chores
This is the greatest secret to a happy married life. A couple that shares domestic chores and goes out of the way to make things easy for each other ensure happiness and peace in their married life.
You will wreck your life if you don’t help your spouse with domestic chores. You could also go as far as making a list of things to be done everyday and taking your share of the responsibility. It is not fair to burden one person with all the work; so a written document of the responsibilities that each partner has to shoulder will go a long way in protecting domestic peace.
Don’t confuse harmony in married life with agreeing to everything that your spouse says. You don’t have to agree to each and every issue to enjoy a peaceful and happy married life. Many factors contribute to the peace and happiness of a married life. Some might be crucial and some may be small, but they all play a major role in a harmonious marriage.
Love is good but hate is better sometimes
i think the obvious answer would be love however other cheesy stuff such as trust,communication,understanding,freedom also comes into play.It actually varies from couple to couple and from partner to partner.One couple could be fiercely possessive about each other while the other would want to enjoy their personal freedoms and have their own ‘space’.
however whats true for all couples is ‘to keep the goddamned spark alive’!!
Trust, admitting when you’re wrong, and if you’re a woman always make the man feel that he’s the only thing that matters in the world and Visa Versa.
The secrete to Life long love is tolerence for everyhing for behavior about whatever makes the other happy and comfortable. (ie) cross dressing to TV programs to whatever each like to eat!
kate i hope u have a good life and live ur life right and love ur new husband!!!
Communication, Trust and Faith is the secrets to a good marriage. Without trust you have nothing. Without some force(whether it be God, Budda, faith in your relationship, or whatever makes you happy) pushing you to want to do better, you’ll never be able to push yourself on those blah days. Communication, when those troubling thoughts come in your head or something really annoys you TALK. It is better to say please stop that makes me mad than let it blow up.
The obvious LOVE.
They seemed to have had a wonderful day and Princess Katherine looked beautiful in her simply stunning wedding gown. She made a great choice for her kind of look. I am glad she choose Alexander Mcqueen no other designer would have done such a great job as Sarah Burton. And Pippa looked wonderful to (if only I had her figure) I believe they will have a happy life together. And they have known each other for a long time and were friends before they got together.I best not forget to mention Katherine’s evening dress what a perfect choice.I am glad she wore white for her evening look. I am happy for them and I wish them every luck for the future (not that they will need it)
it was a pretty good wedding i think.
I believe the secret to my happy marriage is my husband is my friend in addition to being my spouse. A friend’s parent who had been married for decades told me that at the end of all these years, his wife is still the person I want to sit down and have a cup of coffee with and chat. That is how I felt about my husband 18 years ago when I got married and still how I feel today.
Understanding and faithfulness is the first thing in
marriage!
Remember your identities, be true to self and each other. Love will grow when you share openess and honesty and be willing to compromise to blend your lives
I think what you need apart from trust, love and understanding are basically common values and some sense of equality otherwise a marriage is unlikely to last.
it was a good day but i fort it was borin to wach
Happy Ending? The drama has just begun.
One who is educated and knows the correct meaning of each word in its literature, knows how to define his own life, wife, family, marriage, daughter, son, etc., etc., and every forward step of daily needs of salt to feast, and he knows his own position much well and to keep himself and others free, he should keep his consort as free of mind, when mind is bound to body, it acts with genders. The relationship between a wife and husband should be considered and presented, as and when required, as compliment to each other, as if one body, one mind, one soul (not two bodies). A deep philosophical knowledge on this aspect and a meticulously careful acceptance of the social obligations would lead THE MARRIED LIFE a LONG AND SUCESSFUL one like mine of the last 20 years – I am now 55.
It’s nice to go back to the times when you just get married. I wish them all the best and beautiful kids to come.
first you married a guy, it means you married his problem too
im not married yet, but i learned many from my parents
and for kate: it supposed to be me lol :p hihi
It’s simple, it’s both people putting the other’s happiness before their own. It can’t be one sided.
Someone posted somewhere on here that the last great royal wedding was of William’s parents. I’m too young to remember Anne’s (first) wedding, but it seemed to me that Andy and Fergie’s wedding (in which William was a pageboy) and Edward and Sophie’s wedding were also quite “great,” not to mention were also broadcast around the world.