Here are 10 suggestions to keep in mind if you want to make your marriage a lifetime honeymoon:

1. Limit criticisms to a minimum. Try to understand the psychology of the other sex. For example, most men like to feel important. They like to be flattered, encouraged and inspired.

Many women make the fatal mistake of belittling their husbands instead of letting them feel they are the most important person in the family. Psychiatrics refer to the process of a wife subjugating her husband to her will as “castration”. Normal women do not wish to dominate a man.

There are also things peculiar to women that men fail to appreciate. Women want to feel secure. They want to feel loved and be made to feel that they are responsible in part for their husband’s success.

Men should realize also that wives do not like to play the mother role to their husbands. They want to look up to a man to respect him for his masculinity.

2. Adopt a courtroom technique for arguments. Make them discussions. It takes two people to engage in an argument. If you can’t discuss your differences, keep your emotions under control, don’t discuss them at all. Usually they are of little importance, anyhow.

3. Give conversation its due: Make it enjoyable by cutting down on recitals of complaints, ailments, bills and worries.

4. Put a stop to sulks, profanity, and name-calling before they become a habit.

5. Examine yourself for your own failings when you are tempted to brood over your partner’s.

6. Kill that impulse to rouse suspicion and jealousy in the partner with reports of flirtatious encounters.

7. Have fun, but have it together: marriage fails flat without shared good times to give it sparkle.

8. In case of infidelity treat it as you would a family illness. Don’t shoot. Do not reach for the sleeping pills or the liquor bottle. Do not go running to a lawyer for a quick divorce. Consult a marriage counselor.

Prevention is the wisest cure. Here, much depends on the wife. She is the pivotal figure in the home. If she is aware of the stress of the times, the tensions and the competition her husband must meet she can offset much of the strain with a kind and tolerant personality.

9. Make marriage a partnership. It implies cooperation and not a competitive struggle for supremacy. A normal husband and wife respect the other partner as an intelligent, sensitive human being. True love is altruistic in quality and incorporates the wishes of the beloved partner.

10. If there is any sexual incapability present, something should definitely be done about it. Couples who don’t get along physically are usually the ones who are constantly bickering.

A frigid wife is apt to be sadistic and difficult to live with. A husband who is sexually inadequate may become a chronic health complainer.

There is no excuse today for sexual unhappiness. There are books containing scientifically oriented sexual information that can be read and psychiatrists are available to help you if your sexual problem is a complicated one.