Isn’t it supposed to be all unicorns and rainbows when you get back from your fabulous honeymoon?  We think… maybe reality starts to rear its ugly head.  Tell us what you were most surprised about once you were married!

Thank you to Ada Calhoun for her article: What It’s Really Like to Go From Bride to Wife.  Repost from Brides.com.

The wedding bouquet’s been tossed.  The band’s stopped playing.  You’re home from the honeymoon.  There’s a good chance that the last year or so of your life has been taken up with planning the big event.  So now that it’s over, what comes next?

Life After Wedding (Photo from www.afterhoneymoon.com)

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Thank you to Lydia Netzer for her article: 15 Ways to Stay Married for 15 Years!  To read more, check out her blog, Lydia Netzer: Author, Mother, Troublemaker.  Follow her on twitter and friend her on facebook.

Today is my fifteenth wedding anniversary.  I really love Dan, and I am proud of how awesome our marriage is.  We certainly haven’t killed each other yet.  Hell, we haven’t even maimed each other.  We have not always been perfect, but we have made two cool kids, and we have always kept it interesting.  For two people as weird and intense as Dan and I are, staying together this long is a big accomplishment.  I know some people are surprised.

Dan & Lydia (Photo from www.lydianetzer.blogspot.com)

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Thanks to our friend Vonnie Kennedy at EmpowHER for her article Weird Ways Guys Say I Love You.  How does your guy say he loves you?!?!

Women can be high maintenance.  We know it’s true.  But, men can be complicated.  That we know as well.  Most of the time, we know our guy loves us, but sometimes we just need to hear him say it.

How does your guy say "I love you"? (Photo from www.sheknows.com)

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This is an excerpt from:  Cheat on Your Husband (with Your Husband) – How to Date Your Spouse by Andrea Syrtash.

Men Aren't Mind Readers! (Photo from www.survivingdating.com)

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In the world of 72 day “marriages” (not really sure we can call it that but what else to call it?), how do some couples stay married for decades (happily so) and why do some people marry time and time again (think J Lo)?  theBrideScoop writers are all over the board with our relationships – single, dating, engaged, married, civil unionized, kids, no kids, cats, dogs… you get the point!  But we got to thinking, what makes for a happy marriage?  And can it be as easy as 1-2-3 by using a checklist?

Is there such a thing as a marriage checklist? (Photo from www.frumanista.blogspot.com)

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During the last season of Oprah’s highly rated day time television show, the first lady of talk had President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama on and they spoke openly about their marriage.  Mrs. Obama said, “It has to be a true partnership, and you have to really, really like and respect the person that you’re married to because it’s a hard road.”

President & First Lady (Photo by Chip Somodevilla for Getty Images)

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