Tips for a happy marriage?

One of our more unusual wedding presents was a little booklet entitled “All A Young Wife Ought To Know” containing various tips in preparation for married life. Some are quite sensible, for instance “do not run up long bills of credit, for thus are born arguments, hatreds and reproaches”. Useful advice indeed, given my love of Radley bags and inability to resist the Monsoon sale! Other advice is less useful – the advice that on the husband’s arrival home, the wife should “have his shoes removed before a good fire and his feet washed!” Somehow I can’t see myself doing that!