D.C. Area Nesties
Dear Community,
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Re: QOTD - TGIF edition
Three things:
1. The whole if I ask you to do something, I then can't give directions on how I want it done.
2. We have joint accounts but we also both have our own account to do with what we want. We never have arguments about his eating out everyday or how much I spent on a handbag.
3. Appreciate your partner. We drive each other crazy sometimes but we always try to appreciate the motives/intentions/actions of the other.
my grandparents both talked about always being a team and presenting a united front as a couple. they raised 7 kids together and were married for almost 60 years, so it clearly worked for them.
my gram recently said she thought DH & i were a great match, which made me smile.
Pick your battles
Don't go to bed mad
Respect each other
We make the rockin' world go 'round.
Stand up for something you believe in.
Baby248 - ETA 1/10/13
Communication will make or (lack thereof) break your marriage.
the "fun money" separate accounts definitely have thwarted a lot of arguments. i don't think my husband needs 3 bikes and he doesn't think I need to go to PaperSource YET AGAIN. Fun money solves this problem!
Fun Money and teamwork. Both keep any resentment at bay... and, IMO, resentment is a definite marriage killer!
We have a book from our wedding where people wrote advice and memories on cards and sealed them in envelopes. We haven't opened them yet. I think we'll do it on our 5th or 10th anniversary...
1) Choose your battles.
2) Never stop courting each other.
I'm sure there are others but these are the one's we've used the most!
Never take each other for granted
My parents have been married for 34 years, when we were planning our own wedding, the two pieces of advice they gave were: communicate and listen to one another and to remember to always have fun and keep a sense of humor.