family responsibilities married couples spend just four minutes a day together the average couple has sex 58 times a year slightly more than once a week more than friendship laughter forgiveness compatibility or sex spouses name trust as the most crucial element for a happy marriage men who kiss their wives in the morning are said to live five years longer than those who donttiff factor your spouse doesnt get along with your close friends and every time you invite them over heshe makes their dislike obvious through sarcasm despite your several attempts to make peace between your spouse and your friend things are far from rosytroubleshoot refrain from a sales pitch of one to the other people who inherently dislike each other may not change their views and opinions but with time will learn to accept things as they are so instead of forcing your spouse and friend to be best buddies you need to first accept the truth yourself next explain to them individually that they need to respect the relationship you share with each of them and hence you expect them to be cordial with one another if nothing morehow to fight fair dos attack the issue not your spouse namecalling puts people in a position to respond angrily and defensively it breaks down communication and destroys trust in the marriage take responsibility use i statements as a way of showing that you are taking responsibility for your own feelings and actions deal with one issue at a timetry not to pile up several complaints into one session if you have a different problem youd like to address save it for the next discussiondonts dont interrupt or pass comments while your spouse is speaking also rolling your eyes smirking yawning etc all work against fair fighting dont involve other peoples opinions while arguing eg your mother also agrees with me the only opinions that matter are of the two of you dont make threats especially of divorcing while fighting threatening to leave the relationship is manipulative and hurtful it will erode your partners confidence in your commitment to the relationship whenever roopak and i have fights we make up very fast in fact i say sorrya 100 times if i have to i believe a couple shouldnt go to bed without solving their problems tara sharma tv host my husband and i fight almost every day on whether the toilet seat should be up or down another issue that leads to an argument is my husband after returning from work tries to wake up the kids who are fast asleep after every argument one of us has to give in till another issue crops up we solve our problems on a daytoday basis ramneek pantal model the most frequent fight my wife leena and i have is on spending time together due to my shooting schedule i cant give her enough time and that leads to fights its justified on her part to question me