How to stay happily married?

Pnpoint the common elements that characterize them. these would include the ability of the husband and wife:

• To communicate with each other.

• To be close and mutually interdependent.

• To meet each others' practical and emotional needs.

• To work and play together, and to plan, meet and solve their problems cooperatively.

• To share the duties and pleasures of parenthood.

• To take pride and pleasure in each others' accomplishments and sense of self-esteem.

• Not to be self-centered as a couple, but to be productive members of their community as individuals and a s a couple.

• To respect each others' view not to look upon a difference in opinion as criticism or loss of love.

• To argue without quarreling and to settle arrangements without prolonged periods of hostility or estrangement. (A happy marriage does not necessarily mean one that is altogether devoid of any problems or conflicts.)
  

• To cultivate a sense of humour.