7 Activities every man must do with his wife:

Before: Taking the toy away the second they fought over it and calling it fair. After: Giving them two minutes to work it out while I stayed in the room. They still needed me about half the time. The other half they figured out something I'd have robbed them of.

Costume night. The thing you spent two weeks on is abandoned by the third house. He's happier in the cape he picked out himself. Say nothing about the two weeks.

Most couples don't drift apart in a fight. They drift apart over a hundred evenings where nobody said anything real. It isn't dramatic, which is exactly why it's hard to catch. What's a small habit that keeps you two actually talking?

Every family photo you take badly is better than the one you didn't take.

"He doesn't listen to me" is almost always a volume problem in the wrong direction. Kids tune out noise. They lock in on quiet. Drop your voice instead of raising it and watch what happens to the room.

You two used to be the loudest people at somebody's table. You were funny together. That hasn't gone anywhere. It's just been outvoted by small people for a few years.