Aloooooooooha! From Ko Olina, Hawaii, just northwest of Honolulu on Oahu, where Susan and I celebrated our 36th wedding anniversary last night. A Great! time was had by all. Not just last night, but almost every night of our wedded life, we have gone to sleep happy being married with each other and looking forward to staying that way the next day.
Many of the people we meet in her family medical practice and my lifecycle law practice, however, are not nearly as happy as we are. We talked about America’s 50% divorce rate a lot this past week during our Last Year – Next Year Planning Week in Hawaii and we’ve decided to work during our entire 37th year cohosting a Sunday morning podcast called Marital Symbiotics – How to Collaboratively Start, Strengthen, Sustain, Save, and, If Need Be, Stop Your Marriage By Doing What’s Best for Everyone Involved. I doubt we will say that whole title very often. For the most part, we will call it simply Marital Symbiotics.
Last night we recorded the first audio podcast, which will be released next Sunday, discussing Things To Do To Have a Practically Perfect Marriage. If you want to stay married for the long term, then you must do at least these 9 things:
- Affirmatively want to stay married all the time – every second of every minute, hour, day, week, month, year, decade, and score of the rest of your lawfully wedded life.
- Agree and live by the rock hard promise to never give up on your marriage at any time the other of you has.
- Prioritize your spouse and your marriage before all others, except God and your self.
- Be thrilled with a practically perfect marriage.
- Recognize and avoid threats to your marriage.
- Be comfortable in your own skin and help your spouse be comfortable in his or hers.
- Lean in, lean back, lean out, and lean down.
- Complement and compliment each other early, often, and always.
- Share your self.
These will be the topics for the first nine weeks of the podcasts. Before we tell you what all of these ideas mean to us, we want you to help us hit your hot buttons by telling us what they all mean to you. So help us out by answering the following question.
[reminder]Which of the nine ideas listed above do you think is most important?[/reminder]
We’ll talk to you on Sunday. In the meantime, you GOTTABGATT!, so go out there today and be Great! All the time!