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[quote=Anonymous]When my husband and I were in our pre marriage counseling session with our parish priest he gave us a great piece of advice: When you start to argue, start taking your clothes off.  If the fight is silly you will quickly forget it when you are both naked and have some fun. If the fight is important you won't care that the other person is naked. Finish that argument but remember that your marriage is worth fighting for. In 24 years we only kept fighting once. It took an hour but we worked it out. The stripping our clothes off worked. It also trained us to stop and think before we argued. By the time we had kids old enough for us not to be naked in front of them we had figured out ways to work out the small stuff.  After that one big fight we realized our kitchen window was open and the new next door neighbor (a newly divorced dad) had heard everything. He brought us a bottle of wine the next day and told us how happy he was that we kept at it. He said if he and his ex had put that much effort into a fight their marriage would have lasted.  Most of what makes are marriage work is that we don't sweat the small stuff, we don't keep secrets from each other and we treat all of our parents the same. His mom means just as much to me as my mom does and vice versa. That part is easy because both sets of parents treated us both like family and not in laws. I know we are lucky in that part.[/quote]

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