JumpStart by Robb Armstrong for June 17, 2022

If you need to ask questions, you are not ready. Go for a long engagement.

Now you sit down and ask yourself if you honestly meant yes or only said yes because he proposed in public and there were thousands of people watching you.

Yeah I have to agree with Marcy this time. The wife and I will be celebrating 42 years of marriage come this December and experts we ain’t.

Marcy’s right…it appears to be more OJT for a lifetime!

I’m afraid of commitment. I’m not one to ask about marriage.

Well… One word of advice, those small annoying habits the other person has and you think will disappear after marriage? They don’t. They get worse.

Long-term, you love someone despite who they are, not because of who they are..

Just read the Tweet, WOW, congrats!!

10,000 hours, from a psychological perspective, is merely arbitrary shorthand. Expertise comes from challenge and encountering situations that demand increasing skill. And their marriage has certainly been challenging!

Decide to love them, instead of criticizing. At times you make a choice.

The things you love about them will become the things you hate about them. Be prepared to say those six little words that mean so much in a relationship “No, that’s not what I meant”

My wife and I counseled enough couple to realize that what works for one couple does not work for many others. Everyone has their own challenges to get through before the couple things work.

But “now what” is still planning a wedding with a tightwad and that can be challenging unless the bride’s family is paying.

Why should I believe you know anything about marriages unless you’ve been in at least half a dozen of them?!

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(This is a joke. Calm down.)

What IS the “10,000 hours cliche’”?I’ve never heard of it.

By the way,who won the game?

Nicole said yes! Now what, indeed.

Ha, ha! Yeah, I’ve been married 14.5 years, and I don’t know much about marriage.

The best part about marriage is, just about the time you have it nailed, it changes.

Sometimes long married couples stay together for the pets. The animals love both the husband and wife and it would be cruel for them to not be with their owners every day. Having a large house helps too.

With our firstborn came an abundance of expert advice.

Most of it was contradictory but offered with confidence.

It hurt my beloved’s feelings, indicating she didn’t know how to handle it. Even pointing out much of it was 180 degrees different from others of it didn’t help her.

(I always thanked them for their good intentions, took what seemed reasonable, ignored the rest.)

It works for most skills, marriage is too complex for that.

What is a the ten thousand hour cliché?

The one thing I have learned is it ain’t always 50-50, it works more on a sliding scale, one time it will be 50-50 the next time it can be on one side 70-30, the next time 80-20 to the other.

Well, ten thousand hours at 24/7 is not even a year and two months, so. . .