How to Stay Married (And Not Kill Each Other)
Capital of Nasty, an Electronic Magazine - ISSN 1482-0471
Monday, April 30, 2012 at 10:00 (6719/26)
Categories:
HowTo, Relationships
Lydia Netzer, author of the forthcoming novel Shine Shine Shine and a 15-year marriage veteran, shares some of the best survival tips I've ever heard on how to keep your marriage going strong. Some of her advice? Go to bed mad and make pancakes the next morning.
The old maxim that you shouldn't go to bed mad is stupid. Sometimes you need to just go to freakin' bed. "Let not the sun go down upon your wrath" is prefaced in the Bible by the phrase "Be angry and sin not." So, who's to say it doesn't mean "Stay angry, bitches. Don't let the sun go down on that awesome fierce wrath of yours." Seriously. Whoever interpreted this to mean that you should stay up after midnight, tear-stained and petulant, trying to iron out some kind of overtired and breathy accord -- was stupid. Shut up, go to bed, let your husband get some sleep. In the morning, eat some pancakes. Everything will seem better, I swear.
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