Happiness is what every individual hankers for.
Happiness in the company of your spouse is the secret of every successful marriage.
Keeping that happiness alive is the task every happy couple manages to achieve.
There are umpteen articles, thousands of books and never ending dialogues about the secret of successful marriage.
What do all these expositions try to convey? They just tell you to be yourself, to genuinely enjoy the company of your spouse and to put in a sincere effort to keep him/her happy.
Living together gives you a pretty good idea about your partner's likes and dislikes.
You know exactly what can bring a smile on her face, what can make her shed tears of joy and what is it that saddens her the most.
To stay married to her and to enjoy every moment of her company, all you have to do is to bring that smile to her face, become the reason for her joy and keep her away from what saddens her.
Your efforts to make her life beautiful will trigger an equal or more than equal response in your wife.
She too will seek ways to make you feel special.
Just take care to see that you respect each other's individuality, give each other space and more than anything else keep your sense of humor intact.
In testing times these are what will help you surmount the problems.
Newly married couples seem to instinctively follow these simple ways to keep each other happy, but with time, the pressures of running the house, the children and expectations so many couples drift apart and divorce seems the natural consequence.