Don't be too obvious in understanding your husband's little faults and failings. Let him get away with it sometimes.
Don't nag. If he doesn't get you the second time, it's hopeless anyway.
Don't let him make you dowdy in appearance.
Don't keep him from drinking cocktails or playing poker at home unless you can enforce the amendment everywhere else.
Don't make a liar out of him for a few miles or a few dollars when he's telling a story.
Don't be too free with your opinions and too stingy with your laughs.
Don't knock any other woman he admires. Agree with him and then look around diligently for some little thing that will make her seem or look ridiculous.
Don't make him feel as if his home is a prison. Let him go out with the boys once in awhile and always see to it that you've got something amusing to do yourself those evenings, so he'll worry about you. He'll come home earlier.
Don't forget that man, being a polygamous animal, can't be content with merely a wife. He's got to have a sweetheart as well and the smartest thing a wife can do is be it.
Don't be too familiar, too nervous, too busy, or too tired to be polite and decent to your husband. There are many other women in the world.
These pages were originally created on July 10, 1999.
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