- You are a team. Share ideas, goals, plans, and work towards them together.
- Clean up after yourself. That means everything from clothes you dump on the floor to dishes you dirty from cooking that wonderful breakfast for the two of you.
- If you both are working, have a set list of chores you both do. Surprise each other and do the other one's chore as a nice surprise.
- The kids are NOT her exclusive responsibility. You helped create them, you can help take care of them too.
- It is not funny to pass gas in public, or sitting in front of an open window, or to see how loud you can do it. No one cares how bad it smells, so don't brag about it.
- The only place you should be spitting is in the bathroom sink. Out the car window, while talking to the neighbors, or just as a nervous habit. It is a filthy habit. Just stop it.
- If you are nervous, resist the urge to grab your crotch to ‘adjust' yourself. Excuse yourself and go fix it/them in privacy.
- Try a little tenderness. Unless she likes rough sex or foreplay, gentle is always better. It is NOT all about YOU.
- Before you leave the bathroom (anywhere) make sure you haven't left any deposits in the toilet (i.e., floaters, skid marks, streaks of any kind). It is not only disgusting, but also unsanitary.
- Spend a few minutes each day thinking about all the things you like about your partner. And then tell her a couple of them.
- Compliment her in front of your friends, her friends, co-workers, parents, and siblings.
- Appreciate her for who she is. She may do the same for you.
- Ask about her day. Even if you know it is going to be a tirade of massive proportions, just listen.
- You do not have to try to ‘fix' everything. She just wants to vent.
- It may come as a complete surprise to you, but you do not know everything.
- Don't act like you have just given her a world cruise if you take out the garbage. Just do it.
- If you want to be stroked for everything you accomplish, be prepared to do the same for her. That street runs two ways.
- Even if you don't wear the most fashionable clothing, make sure it is clean. And make sure you are too. Most women are not turned on by the smell of a stinky man.
- Brush and floss. You may think you don't need to floss, but did you know that the stuff between your teeth is rotting food and if the bacteria get into your blood stream it can cause heart problems?
- If you enjoy kissing, don't make it a slobber-fest. Assuming you have brushed or freshened your breath, this is another area where gentle is better. (Unless it is mutually agreed upon otherwise).
- Be prepared to clean the floors if you are tracking in a bunch of debris. In most homes now the owners ask you to take your shoes off. If you are reluctant to do that, then you need to bathe more often or use something to keep your feet smelling fresh.
- Taking illegal drugs will eventually make you a loser. You can deny it all you want, but they are not making you a better person.
- Stop smoking. It is a disgusting, filthy and deadly habit. Adults don't smoke.
- Bring her flowers, or make her a special cup of coffee. Offer to give her a back rub.
- Share yourself as much as you can.
- Even if she isn't talking about it, she is scared about her major health problem.
- You have known her since she was a teenager. She isn't one anymore. Don't assume she can do the same things she used to be able to do. You can't, can you?
- No one is perfect. Including you.
Feel free to add to this list. These were just random thoughts, and no, they don't necessarily apply to my life. What do you do to make your partner happy?


Comments: 26
Love it all, but the last three words are more than a bit rash. I agree it would be good for everyone to stop smoking, but to consider it an adolescent habit is a BIT more than I'd say. Other than that, it's brilliant. It's appalling to me that women ever put up with this, frankly I blame the women more than I do the men
David - there is nothing wrong with a desire to be alone. I can only draw from my own experience but after a rather messy marriage for 21 years I became single again by choice (the PC way of saying the kids were grown and I got a divorce).
My divorce was not particularly ugly - it had bad moments but nothing in the "scarred for life - hate men forever" kind of way. Nonetheless, I was done having children, still relatively young (39 at the time)and ready to just "be" me. I had consciously made the decision that I did not need nor want a co-habiting relationship again. A year after my divorce was final, I met Nathan online back in the day when this was not so much the norm (1997). After talking online for several months he revealed that he was 27(at that time) while I was 13+ years older. He had never been married, no kids, and had just been honorably discharged from the USMC. He became just a good friend to talk to occasionally. Over several months this began to change for him. He didn't let me in on this at first because he knew I was still a bit gun shy however I began to sense a change in our conversations and email both in frequency and depth. I immediately put on the brakes and tried to make this wonderful young man realize that he should expend this emotional energy on someone closer in age, who was looking for a long-term relationship with all the accoutrements. He never pushed but he continued to be persistent with his wish for us to meet face to face. I continued to tell him we could never be anything more than friends. He came up from Arizona, I spent one whole day in his company which turned into one night and then one more day and one more night until he finally made me realize that I really was in love with him and all he stood for. We got married in 1999 and have been blissfully happy ever since. He is the most strong, gentle, wonderful, sweet, compassionate, unselfish, man with the highest level of integrity and honor that I have ever met. Having found this wonderful human being and sharing our lives together is not just the opposite of being alone. It's fireworks, heartstrings, passion, contentment - there just aren't enough words even for me the Queen of the Thesaurus! So now that I've rambled on WAY too long. There is nothing wrong with being alone vs the wrong person. But with the right person - you are never alone even when one of you is clear on the other side of the world.
How to make a woman happy?
you are a team.
Ruth -- Please, let's be alone together for the rest of our lives. Oh, and with Soren as an occasional non-threesome.
Lol, I tend to ignore it all, unless it hits the wrong button....RRRRR.
We seem to have finally hit a point where we have learned what can be changed and what can not. It works for us!
Of course I had to be less selfish, first, then everything smoothed out!