Why You Should Never Take Marriage Advice
If you are a newly married person, or someone who is contemplating marriage, let me give you the best advice you’ll ever receive about the institution.
Never take marriage advice.
People who offer advice mean well; we all assume that we’ve been through enough trial and error to impart some wisdom on some less-knowing person in a like circumstance. The problem is that no one ever discloses all of the things that didn’t work for their circumstance. Not failures, mind you; but 10,000 ways that don’t work.
A smart thing to do is to ask about best practices. Habits. Nuances that make life easier for married people. No one has a universal answer; it’s like trying to offer a bride a wedding dress that is commonly worn; it ain’t gonna happen. Never take advice. Instead, try to receive the lighter and more soluble characteristics of successful marriages.
Or at least, those marriages that are successful on the outside.
