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8 Lessons from the World’s Happiest Couples

 The May edition of Reader’s Digest  features a breezy article titled “Is Your Marriage Normal or Nuts?”

Don’t answer just yet.

But within the piece is a short list detailing eight lessons from the “World’s Happiest Couples.” I’d like to share them with you and ask if you might add to it:

1. Kindness Helps

 74 percent of couples who said they were happy give each other back rubs.

2. It’s Not Necessarily about the Looks

20 percent of the happiest partners say they’re not physically attracted to their spouse.

3. Similar Personalities Help

Of the 45 percent of people who say they have a lot in common with their spouses, 95% describe their relationships as extremely happy.

4. Keep Talking

40 percent of the happiest couples say communication – more than friendship, affection, or even sex – is the most satisfying part of the relationship.

5. Avoid the Couch

Only 1 percent of the happiest couples say they’ve ever slept on the couch.

6. Are Some Secrets OK?

27 percent of the happiest couples have kept secrets from each other.

7. Be Intimate Often

60 percent of extremely happy couples have sex three or four times per week.

8. Arguing Can Be Healthy

78 percent of the happiest couples argue occasionally.

Care to add # 9?

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Topics: Family and Home Tags: husband, intimacy, marriage, wife April 4, 2013 by Jim Daly with Paul Batura

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Jim-Daly Jim Daly is a husband, father and President of Focus on the Family and host of its National Radio Hall of Fame broadcast. His blog, Daly Focus, is full of timely commentary and wisdom designed to help you navigate and understand today’s culture. His latest book is Marriage Done Right.

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