Happy spouse, happy house!

Three things we'll never do as an age-gap couple, relationship edition. Yeah, we've heard a lot of relationship advice over the years, but as Grayson said, here's three things we don't do. Number one, happy wife, happy life. -, no.

Although that is true, I believe in happy spouse, happy house. So yeah, it goes both ways. It's part of our, it's consistent with one of the non-negotiables of we give 100, 100. We don't like 50-50 as a way of scorekeeping. We don't do that. We both give our all.

And so happy house, happy spouse is consistent with that. Happy wife, happy life sounds, as Grayson says, lopsided in her favor, and she doesn't want that. She's a caregiver. She's passionate. So that expression is important to her and me. Yeah, there needs to be inequality.

If he's just worrying about making me happy, then he's pouring from an empty cup, and it's just not realistic to do so. Number two, never go to bed angry. Well, that's just impractical. Sometimes you're pissed off, and what, are you going to just flip a switch and not go to bed angry when a conversation's not resolved?

Or you stay up all night into exhaustion? That does not help resolve conflict. So we have a very productive way of arguing. Our arguing does not escalate because we trust one another so much. So what we do is if we're tired and there's still stuff left to discuss, we go to sleep.

Because a lot of times a night rest clears the mind. It clears things up, and you wake up in the morning. And especially if you have a lot of cachet with your partner, things are okay in the morning. You might do a little discussion, but it's better. Yeah, I'm all for working it out. I seriously am. But I think taking a breather, resting, waking up the next morning, you're brand new.

And you realize a lot of the time the fight is not nearly as big as you think it is. Number three, couples need lots of time apart. Boo. That might be good advice for some people, but it is not for us.

We love our time together, and we spend, gosh. Almost 24-7, and y'all might think we're crazy, but I don't care. It's sickening after four and a half years when one of us leaves the house and we're gone for ten minutes.