Funny Marriage Tips - No Kidding!

Laughter is the often the best medicine, especially for a sick marriage – these funny marriage tips will keep you and your honey laughing until … well, until one of you pushes the mute button on the spousal remote.

The question is who’s going to get to it first? Keep your marriage healthy by laughing and by embracing some of these classic-but-still-effective marriage communication skills … and it wouldn’t hurt to embrace your spouse every so often too.

Don’t go to bed angry at your spouse.

You’ve probably heard someone say this, be it your mother, sister or even your in-laws. There is, however, truth to this although you may not feel it when your significant other has come in at 2:30 in the morning, smelling slightly of smoke or booze (or both) and stumbling up the stairway.

You’d probably be more inclined to go to bed furious and possibly secretly snickering to yourself as they end up worshiping the porcelain altar an hour later. Let’s face it – you’re relieved they’re home and that you weren’t woken up by a call from the county Sheriff (that would really suck).

As difficult as it might be, try to put your anger aside for the night, give your honey some Tylenol and you both can have an adult conversation about the situation in the morning. They might end up being so hungover that you won’t need to say anything – they’ll regret it enough all on their own.

The key point I'm trying to make here, is that when you are angry, you cannot communicate effectively. Anger is a sure enemy of effective communication skills.

Choose your battles.

You could compile all the funny marriage tips in the world and they probably wouldn’t be as important as this one.

Who really wants to get into it over who left the toilet seat up (we all know who it was anyway) or why the dishes are still dirty. Save your breath – you’ll need it later.

Decide which of your spouse’s little quirks, annoying habits and hideous inclinations you can stand and which ones you can’t. Where do you draw the line?

For example, you might be okay when they leave the phone upstairs and you can’t find it when it’s ringing but you probably won’t be okay if they do something that could cause serious harm to people, property or the bank account … well, serious harm to anything really.

Avoid turning blue in the face by letting the little things go and making valid points about the wrongs that do matter. Communication is all about knowing the right things to say,

Don’t hit below the belt.

Seriously.

Yeah, you’re going to fight, argue, scream, cry and maybe even throw a thing or two at your sweetie every once in awhile. It’s normal, healthy and even essential for humans (especially ones that live together, sleep together and well … live together) to express pent up frustrations.

How do you do that while still utilizing effective marriage communication skills? The trick is, don’t hit below the belt.

Literally.

Okay, maybe figuratively too.

Don’t throw comments into the argument that you know are going to hurt, especially if they’re not related to the situation. For example, don’t bring up something like, “You’re a jerk just like your dad. He never treated your mother right and that’s why they’re divorced.”

That stings! When your fight is over and the situation has been resolved (even if it’s only a little resolved), do you really want to bring the pain of their parents’ divorce back?

Keep hurtful and derogatory comments to yourself – they’ll do more harm than good.

The ultimate secret to effective marriage communication is to laugh – shrug some things off and sweat the big stuff. Although funny, marriage tips are really about communicating with your spouse the right way. Look up some funny marriage tips with your spouse on your own and have a laugh about how quirky, frustrating and fun married life can be!

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