[Peter B - CV8]

Everyone's experience with marriage is different - but I know that to make a marriage work, each party has to have a bit of "give & take" & above all, respect for their partner.
I've been happily married for 37 years. Yes there have been times when we could strangle each other - but you learn put up with some things & get along. We knew each other for about 5 years before getting married - so maybe that helped. Under no circumstances would either of us put up with physical or emotional abuse & we have educated our 3 (now adult) children that that type of behaviour is not acceptable under any circumstance.