Top Tips for Keeping Love in your Marriage by Nancy Jill Thames

Tip #1: Always believe you're right, even if what your spouse says may make a little sense. You don't want to confuse them.

Tip #2: Spend as much time as possible away from your spouse. This will give you little reason to ever argue.

Tip #3: If you're the wife, always wear makeup even if it's only lipstick. Your husband doesn't like looking at the 'Before' picture.

Tip #4: If you're the husband, refrain from covering up your messy unkempt hair with a baseball hat. You're wife knows you're not paying attention to personal hygiene.

Tip #5: If you're the wife always demand gifts on Valentine's Day, your birthday, anniversary and Christmas. This is a real proof of your husband's love.

Tip #6: If you're the husband take your wife shopping starting three weeks ahead of any event to make sure you know exactly what she would like for Valentine's Day, her birthday, anniversary and Christmas.

Tip #7: Husbands should always remember "A Happy Wife is a Happy Life."

Tip #8: Wives should always remember their husbands live to serve.

Tip #9: If you're a wife remember that all men are the same so it won't do any good to trade yours in for a later model.

Tip #10:If you're a husband remember that if you are thinking the grass looks greener on the other side of the fence, all cows eat grass.

What tips do you have for keeping love in your marriage?

~Nancy Jill
Married 47 years.

Nancy Jill Thames was born to write mysteries. From her early days as the neighborhood story-teller to the Amazon Author Watch Bestseller List, she has always had a vivid imagination and loves to solve problems – perfect for plotting whodunits. In 2010, Nancy Jill published her first mystery Murder in Half Moon Bay, introducing her well-loved protagonist Jillian Bradley and clue-sniffing Yorkie “Teddy.”

When she isn’t plotting Jillian’s next perilous adventure, Nancy Jill travels between Texas, California, and Georgia finding new ways to spoil her grandchildren, playing classical favorites on her baby grand, or having afternoon tea with friends.

She lives with her husband in Texas and is a member of ACFW (American Christian Fiction Writers) CenTex Chapter.

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To-be-Dread

My to-be-read pile used to consist mainly of the table at the library with the sign that said, “Staff Picks.” Every book I ever nabbed from the staff picks table was a winner.

Then I got my Kindle.

Have you ever seen that delightful “free” list at Amazon? 

I thought so. 

As an author, I adore the free list. It has helped me sell thousands of books (and give away thousands more.) 

As a reader I feel like a small child who got lost at Disneyland. I know I should be scared, but it’s all so wonderful. I scan and click, scan and click, moving from one delicious cover to the next. It’s only when the click-fest is over and I’m tired, hungry (for a good read) and ready to settle down that the fear gets me.

I open my red pleather Kindle cover ready to settle in with a cup of tea and a blanket only to discover that all of the beautiful covers that drew me in are nowhere to be seen. (I’ve googled it. I can’t figure out how to make the covers appear on the home page. If you know the answer, please tell!)

I know we aren’t supposed to judge a book by the cover, of course not. I do my very best to apply that rule to people, but books? That’s what the cover is for!

I currently have 76 books on my kindle. I have no idea why I bought most of them because the visual is gone. I can’t even put them in the handy little collections I set up because I just don’t know what they are. Okay, not exactly true. Some of the books, like the delightful Julie O’Hara Mystery Series (Swan Song is free today!) and Death Knell: A Birdy Morgan Murder Mystery make it clear what collection they belong in. But The Typewriter Girl? Gabriel’sRedemption? Did I nab those in a sci-fi-steam-punk mood or in a inspirational fiction mood? There have no covers! I may never know!

I shouldn’t complain about the Kindle. The Kindle launched my writing career and I hold it near and dear to my heart. But my to-be-read list is such a snarled confusion now that I don’t feel thankful. In fact, I confess, the last three books I have read have been from my local library.

One of these days I will sit down and open the books one by one, reading their first pages and then putting them into their collections. After I re-learn how to put books into collections. When the job is done I will never run out of books to read again. I will have the 76 books in my current collection plus many more, all neatly categorized by genre.

Or maybe I’ll just get a Kindle fire. They show book covers on the home page. 

Traci Tyne Hilton is a wife, mother, author of The Mitzy Neuhaus Mystery Series, and award winning playwright from Portland, Oregon. She is madly working on her next mystery series which has finaled in the Books of Hope Contest at Write Integrity Press and has an impending deadline.

Traci earned a degree in History from Portland State University and lives in the rainiest part of the Pacific Northwest with her husband, the mandolin playing funeral director from Kansas, their two daughters, and their dog, Dr. Watson.

More of Traci's work can be found at tracihilton.com