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Do These Marriage Tips For Newlyweds In 1913 Still Ring True?

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🗓️ 5 August 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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How do you feel about these marriage tips from 1913? What do you think: do they still ring true today?

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Maybe it's time to go back to basics. Maybe it's time to look at the marriage

0:39.9

tips from 1930, or 13, I should say. When you are taking a look at the statistics when it comes

0:46.7

to divorce, it's crazy, man. 50%, 60%, what have you, right? So maybe we got to go back to basics. But if you

0:54.0

guys, if we went around the

0:55.3

room and you said one reason why you don't think marriage works what is it Kristen uh just one

1:04.4

just one the main one i'm i'm gonna say ego oh ego okay i'm to say ego.

1:11.5

Ego.

1:12.3

I'm going to say ego.

1:14.4

And mainly because I feel like you have to have, in order to make something worse, in order to make something worse, in order to make something work, right?

1:26.4

Because marriages are work. They shouldn't be a job. Those are two different things. Like if you feel like you're in a marriage at the job and you're going, you're having to work at it every single. Yeah, marriages are work for sure and you put the work in. But at a certain point, you have to put the ego aside because if you don't, you're just going to cannibalize the relationship. Okay. Ego. Cassie. Isolation. And what I mean is I think people get into a relationship and they get wrapped up in each other and you kind of let friends and your hobbies and activities fall to the wayside. And if you're not careful soon, you just have each other, but then you're bringing nothing new to the table and you're feeling unfulfilled because all the other parts of your life that your partner can't and is not supposed to fulfill you're ignoring them so i think that's a big threat to it okay heavy opinion for me i think it's because and this is just what i'm witnessing in my late 20s is people are getting married a A lot of people are marrying people they don't like.

2:21.3

You need to marry somebody that, yes, you love and you have those feelings for, but you also at a baseline level need to like them.

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You've said that before. I think that's so spot on.

2:25.4

And you know what I've always maintained, man, is that

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I think we are marrying people that we

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