WFMW - Keeping a Marriage Together

(This post was originally published on September 24, 2008. As my most popular Works for Me Wednesday post to date, I submit this for WFMW Ultimate Tips Week. Enjoy! For more great tips, helps and hints, head over to We Are THAT Family)

My offering for Works for Me Wednesday this week is both dramatic in its depth and inspiring in its creativity. Stay with me on this one.


(Yes, that's really our moving truck. It was HUGE.)




How to Keep a Marriage Together, in a few easy steps.





1) Move across the country.


2) Unpack. Notice that a small piece has fallen out of a statue you and hubs purchased on a trip to China at the beginning of your marriage.


3) Offer a prayer and search frantically through all the unpacked boxes. (Umm, ok - I was on the couch "morning sick" and watched Lo Gung dig through the boxes. Same diff, alright?)


4) Find the missing piece (broken in two) and say another prayer of thanks. (The praying was all me, though. I'm all for all the help I can get!)


5) Notice, a few weeks later, that the sister statue also has a broken piece. (We noticed this, mysteriously, after a particularly boisterous lots-of kids get-together in our new home. Hmm...)


6) Purchase Quick Drying Super Glue. Now, this is very important - read the instructions. Notice that the glue bonds instantly to skin, but takes quite a while to dry on anything else. Fail to mention this to hubs.


7) Convince hubs that he must be the one to glue the pieces back together, since your shaky hands could not possibly get the job done.


8) Stand back, in admiration, as he deftly glues the pieces back together.


9) Laugh uproariously as you realize the hubs has glued his wedding band on.

(A kind man in a Mexican Restaurant in San Diego.)

The end. Repeat as often as needed. The move and subsequent loss of pieces of artwork may be omitted.



(MaMa and YehYeh. Aren't they cute?)

*Please don't crucify me over this post. If you really want to hold your marriage together, pray together. Don't let small things build up into big grudges. Check yourself every day and see if your marriage is headed in the direction you want it to be.



And if all else fails, glue his wedding band on while he's asleep - 'cause he'd look awfully silly trying to get a date while wearing a wedding band that won't come off!