What defines a healthy marriage?

Answer 1

A wife who is submissive to her husband in all things.

Answer 2

This may sound weird, but I think the biggest thing is faithfulness. Faithfulness to your partner even if you think you don't love them, faithfulness through the hardships and the arguments and all that comes with married life.

Well, I guess love is the biggest thing, but people need to start defining love as a choice and not a feeling. Loving someone means caring more about their well-being than your own, not how warm and fuzzy they make you feel. True love is caring more about someone when you feel like crud about your relationship.

Communication is huge. The whole point of marriage is to make two people into one unit, and as such both parties need to know exactly what's going on with the other. A good way to have healthy communication is to be patient and honest.

I could probably come up with more stuff, but those are some of the biggest things and I've ranted long enough. Hope that helped. =D

Answer 3

A healthy marraige is one with God in the center of it... It also is one where both people are selfless and giving nad have unconditional love for each other. They are determined that no matter what they will work on this marriage through good times and bad. They are faithful and true and loyal to each other. They are forgiving of each others faults and they treat each other the way that they want to be treated. They are always trying to better themselves to be a better husband or wife to their partner. This only partly defines what a healthy marriage is. Basically a healthy marriage is one that is worked at and on together and stays strong through it all.

http://www.marriagetoday.org

Answer 4

To all the people that talk about how healthy their marriage is or how to have a healthy marriage: Hypocrites!

This is too hard to pinpoint. But I think actions speak a lot louder than all these words.

Married 10 years. Enough said!

Answer 5

A healthy marriage is indescribably delicious.

I have a very healthy marriage (31 years) but it's too complex to describe.

Answer 6

A healthy marriage defines trust, sex, communication, sex , loving each other, sex, being there for one another, and most important sex...lol Good luck!

Answer 7

c-o-m-m-u-n-i-c-a-t-i-o-n is the first step to a healthy marriage. If you and your spouse are lacking in that department, forget the definition and prepare for divorce court.

Answer 8

Got this from someone and thot I could share it with you. A happy marriage is a healthy marriage :-)

1. Go to bed at the same time. Remember the beginning of your relationship, when you couldn't wait to go to bed with each other to make love? Happy couples resist the temptation to go to bed at
different times. They go to bed at the same time, even if one partner wakes up
later to do things while their partner sleeps.

2. Cultivate common interests. After the passion settles down, it's common to realize that you have few interests in common. But don't minimize the importance of activities you can do together that you both enjoy. If
common interests are not present, happy couples develop them. At the same time, be sure to cultivate interests of your own; this will make you more interesting to your mate and prevent you from appearing too dependent.

3. Walk hand in hand or side by side. Rather than one partner lagging or dragging behind the other, happy couples walk comfortably hand in hand or side by side. They know it's more important to be with their partner than
to see the sights along the way.

4. Make trust and forgiveness your default mode. If and when they have a disagreement or argument, and if they can't resolve it, happy couples default to trusting and forgiving rather than distrusting and begrudging.

5. Focus more on what your partner does right than what he or she does wrong. If you look for things your partner does wrong, you can always find something. If you look for what he or she does right, you can always find something, too. It all depends on what you want to look for. Happy couples accentuate the positive.

6. Hug each other as soon as you see each other after work. Our skin has a memory of "good touch" (loved), "bad touch" (abused) and "no touch" (neglected). Couples who say hello with a hug keep their skin bathed in the "good touch," which can inoculate your spirit against anonymity in the world.

7. Say "I love you" and "Have a good day" every morning. This is a great way to buy some patience and tolerance as each partner sets out each day to battle traffic jams, long lines and other annoyances.

8. Say "Good night" every night, regardless of how you feel. This tells your partner that, regardless of how upset you are with him or her, you still want to be in the relationship. It says that what you and your partner have is bigger than any single upsetting incident.

9. Do a "weather" check during the day. Call your partner at home or at work to see how his or her day is going. This is a great way to adjust expectations so that you're more in sync when you connect after work. For instance, if your partner is having an awful day, it might be
unreasonable to expect him or her to be enthusiastic about something good
that happened to you.

10. Be proud to be seen with your partner. Happy couples are pleased to be seen together and are often in some kind of affectionate contact -- hand on hand or hand on shoulder or knee or back of neck. They are
not showing off but rather just saying that they belong with each other.

Even if these actions don't come naturally, happy couples stick with them until they do become a part of their relationship. They know
that it takes 30 days for a change in behavior to become a habit, and aminimum of six
months for a habit to become a way of life and love.

Answer 9

Consideration for each others feelings. Respecting and appreciating the differences in each other. Trust & deserving trust. Communication and being loving toward each other.

Answer 10

I was looking for the same answer a while back. I went to drphil.com and looked at his relationship questions. This is an excellent source.

Answer 11

No mama's boys, a husband who will make his wife the most important person in the world, and in-laws who know when to butt out.