What's “the 5 by 5 rule” of marriage? If it's not gonna matter in 5 years, don't spend more than 5 minutes being upset by it. It’s an individual life philosophy, sure, but just as applicable (maybe even moreso!) to a marriage philosophy.  A marriage is made up of millions of moments, no single one of which should determine whether it survives or dies. Today we’re sharing 50 common life-and-marriage examples when you should follow this important marriage rule-- and how to use the rule in your day to day life together. 

Pictures of Mrs. Cubic Zirconia without clothes may or may not have existed at one time in the past over a decade ago and earlier in our relationship as man and woman. As her husband, Mr. Cubic Zirconia cannot confirm or deny.  But if any alleged naked pictures did exist-- perhaps in a special, carefully-controlled and password-protected, digital format protected by a lock-and-key smartphone application -- such naughty nostalgia nudes, if these photos ever indeed existed, would have been lost in the great fully-clothed New Year’s Eve Merida Mexico midnight swimming pool dive of 2015.  But today’s email isn’t about one man’s hypothetical dumb, drunken decision not to put a waterproof case on his smartphone.  It’s about one man’s somewhat selfish belief that a private “boudoir” portrait painting or photography session might just be a very special once-or-twice-in-a-lifetime gift one spouse can give to another.  And that man shamelessly trying to convince tens of thousands of women, if need be, to do the same thing...to convince just one woman to do that one thing. Let's get naked

7 Wishes in 7 Days?! Hmmm...the way my husband Mr. Cubic Zirconia makes wishes like a 5-year-old with a credit card, this “Wish Week” gift idea is gonna require some ground rules! Wish week is a gift idea every spouse deserves to be given at least once. We all have wishes from time to time. Maybe your wife has been eyeing an...

When love is fresh and/or marriage is new, it’s easy for a couple to believe their little two-person exception to the rule has everything figured out -- to be sure that nothing will cause them to argue, her to to raise her voice, or him to be angry (certainly nothing as dumb as dirty laundry left on the floor).  Romance novels reinforce the expectation that every perfect line of a perfect couple's perfect dialogue will live forever in their memories (promising an incredible connection, lust, trust, compatibility and amazing sex-- with little stress and few disagreements). SPOILER ALERT: A happy marriage isn’t easy: 7 things your romance novel doesn’t tell you about marriage success.

Plenty of parents teach their children the importance of brushing their teeth, how to cook a pot roast or that they must look both ways before crossing the street. Yet parents of previous generations didn’t teach their kids much about: how to have a healthy sex life how to deal with interpersonal conflict in the home how to handle change. If your experience was anything like ours, your parents did a shitty job preparing you for marriage.Here are 3 things your parents probably didn’t tell you about marriage, either: Thing 1: Diplomacy or Divorce (Get Ready to Negotiate) Thing 2: Sex Is Fun…Usually Thing 3: Everything Changes (So Will You, Your Spouse, and Your Marriage) Let’s not blame too much, ok? It’s unlikely whomever raised you learned these things from whomever raised them either.