Don’t put the Ben Gay tube and the KY tube in the same night stand drawer…:::ahem::::
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as others have commented, don’t keep score.
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tell your mate you love him/her every day.
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never go to bed angry with her/him - the ugly anger will still be there in the morning, just worse, because neither of you will have slept well.
and the stars o’erhead were dancing heel to toe
Seriously, marriage is alot like a pendulum.
Some times…
It’s way over to one side and you think,
[gush]“I’m so damn lucky to have met this person who is so wonderful, etc.”[/gush] and then there are other times that it is WAYYYY over to the other side and you think, " This person is the biggest blockhead in the world and Ohmygod, what did I commit myself too?"
(The latter usually happens when your spouse announces quite honestly that his favorite actor on TV is David Hasselhof or repeats for the nth time the experience as a teenager of lighting bottle rockets off the rain gutter of his beloved car into the car load of friends ahead of him and Whoo Hooo wasn’t that funny? Not that I’m basing any of these blockheaded things on my own marriage…I’ve blocked them out of my collective memories, especially the one about Hasselhof.)
Most of the time the pendulum is in the middle, looking for a big push to go to either side.
Okay, I am checking my cabinets right now to make sure all the potentially disastrous pharmaceutical mix-ups are avoided!
Shirley - Hasselhof, eh? That makes me feel a little better about my husband’s near-obsession with Gillian Anderson. 
I’m with Alpha–Just don’t.
The odds that the bread will fall butter side down are directly proportional to the cost of the carpet.
Seadiver, yeah, Hasselhof. He announces this while we were still in the snuggle-I-Can’t-Get-Enough-of-You-Phase and I’m sitting on his lap while he strobes with the remote at his parents house. We’d been married maybe a month. Baywatch comes on and he says absentmindedly that " David Hasselhof is one of his favorite actors."
My mouth must have hit the floor and I said,
“You withheld this from me? Dear God, a month earlier and I woulda called off the wedding.”
Naturally, I shared this with everyone and no one will ever let him live it down. “Oh, look, it’s Mr. Ujest’s favorite Actor running in slo-mo on the screen.” To this day he denies saying it.
Make it your mantra ‘I want that barcolounger ,but absolutely will not bid above $30 for it’. - Yankee Blue