When You Tease Your Husband, It’s Really No Joke

Happy Couples Are Respectful Of Each Other In Public And In Private

In my research I learned that highly happy couples would certainly be transparent and share the “real deal” with each other . . . they would joke around . . . they would share things that needed to be said. But that is also when they were the most careful to not do it in a way that their mate would perceive as hurtful.

I hear the term “brutal honesty” thrown around a lot when I interview people—people say “you have to be able to be brutally honest in marriage.” But you know what? I have never heard those words from the highly happy husbands and wives. They’re respectful of each other in public and in private. They are very aware that those times when you need to be “honest” are the times you need to be most careful not to hurt the feelings of the person who means the most to you. Kindness, for them, is a way of life.