8 Secrets To A Successful Marriage

Want to know the secret to a long, successful and fulfilling marriage? Good Housekeeping has the answers — all eight of them to be exact, thanks to best-selling author Iris Krasnow and her latest book, The Secret Lives of Wives (Gotham Books, $26, amazon.com). Krasnow, a journalism professor at American University (and a wife who is just one year shy of her silver 25th wedding anniversary), spent two years interviewing over 200 married women — from ladies rounding their 15th year of marriage to veteran wives who have watched their grandchildren walk down the aisle decades after they exchanged their own vows — to learn how keep the marital partnership strong, permanent, and yes, fun-filled. The result of Krasnow’s research: eight top tips to going the distance long after you promised each other “happily-ever-after.”


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