There is no single recipe for a blissful married life. One can try out a number of tried and tested things to achieve happiness and bliss in one’s married life. The disagreements and fights are inevitable but they should not disrupt the domestic peace. Here are some tips to enjoy a happy married life.

• Know your partner well: Develop awareness about your partner’s tastes. If you are aware of what your partner dislikes, you can refrain from doing what he/she dislikes. This will also convey the message that you are considerate enough to understand his/her likes and dislikes.
• Make decisions together: This is a key to achieve happiness. This practice enables the couple to work in collaboration to reach a decision. Both partners get equally involved in the decision making. If only one person makes a decision that ultimately turns out to be a bad one, it could lead to resentment and blame game.
• Balance your work and life: You have to find a balance between your career and personal life. Try not to bring your work home. But do discuss and share about how you spent the day in the office. Don’t allow your office work to interfere with your married life.
• Don’t focus on disagreements: All marriages have their share of problems and discords. Do not prolong an argument. Every day is a new day so forget the disagreements and arguments of the previous day.
• Agree on financial matters: Financial matters cause a lot of discord and heartburn in married life. Both partners should make an effort to develop awareness and understanding about financial situations and establish a budget that is easy to stick to.
• Agree on critical issues before marriage: before marriage, try to know your partner well and try to find opportunity to discuss major issues or issues of concern. E.g It will be disastrous to discover that your partner does not want children after marriage while you want to start a family sooner than later. Or in case of inter-religion or inter-caste marriage, what religion the partners will follow?
• Avoid discussing sensitive issues: Do not discuss issues that might create discord in your married life such as politics, religion etc. The partners can have opposing views regarding these matters but one should not allow these differences in opinion to cause a split in your marriage.
  Give each other a lot of space- sometimes spending a lot of time with each other is quite suffocating. Give some space to each other. This will ensure the freshness in the relationship and will give opportunity to both partners to share and care and develop respect for each other by not looking at the faults of each other. The space ensures a positive and liberal perspective about each other’s personality.