Those of us who understand the humor of the remark are in an exclusive club. I get a little sick of people telling me how lucky my husband and I are to have kept our marriage intact. There was some luck, but most of staying together has been because one or both of us had to learn to sit down and shut up. If you want to stay married you can't always get your way, or have the last word. And you need to be able to laugh at yourself.
Agreed. I always tell people who comment on my 28 year marriage that part of it is luck that life never threw us an obstacle that we didn’t somehow handle together— and it just so happened we never gave up on the same day.
I can’t get my way?
I can’t have the last word?
Tell me about it! We’ve been married over 44 years and that’s the truth.
Yep. Hubby and I have been married 26 years and I agree about laughing at yourself. You also have to know how to laugh at each other and get away with it...it does take a sense of humor to stay married.
My youngest got married in July and still thinks marriage should be “fair” though I have told her it is not “fair” and to try to demand it be so is foolish. Marriage is not fair to either person, both have to be willing to lose a fight even when right in order to move on. You said it well with the sit down and shut up.