One couple who appear to have a marriage that worked was:
George and Martha Washington.
Their marriage was enjoyable to read about and learn from.
I like this part:
"They fell into a pattern of routine with the President holding open
receptions to any clean respectable males on Tuesday afternoons. Martha
had her own receptions on Fridays open to both men and women. Sundays
were family days, first going to church at St. Paul's and various
outings with the grandchildren in the afternoons."
One night a week for their receptions seems like a good plan. I don't know if they invited each other to their receptions or not. Either way, having one night a week to do something wholesome the way you like without your companion seems healthy.
I stress one wholesome activity without your spouse a week, because of a story we ran across once.
Ryan
and I were shopping at Costco. We were on different aisles and he had a
baby in his cart along with the food. Two ladies approached him and
started cooing over the baby. One lady said something like, "I bet you
take the baby to the bars and pick up on all the women there?" Ryan
said "no, I don't". They clarified, "you don't use the baby to pick up
on women at the bars?" Ryan restated more clearly, "No, I don't drink, I
don't go to bars and I don't use the baby to pick up on women." The one
lady looked at the other and said, "See, I told you good men still
exist!" Since that conversation, I think it's important to add stress to
the wholesome in one wholesome recreational activity a week.
My mother-in-law has spent one night a week going to orchestra rehearsals for decades. She loves it and never wants to miss it. It's good for her. Since, it's good for her, it's good for her husband too. This is a perfect way to have one wholesome recreational activity a week.
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