Never keep score in love. Scoreboards are for sports games, not marriages. Maintain interests and passions separate from your partner’s. Marriage should not be the end of individuality. It can’t always be fifty-fifty. Sometimes it will be ninety-ten; sometimes it will be ten-ninety. All that matters is that it adds up to one hundred. One man said, “Never stop dating. I’m ninety-nine and still courting my wife!” Marriages don’t get boring; you stop trying. No one has ever argued their way to a happy marriage. When facing a challenge, face it together. You cannot take care of your partner if you
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