I am happily married from the last 7.5 years and thus I can say that we have to do compromises in our Married life without that you cannot be happy. It's not that you only have to compromise, your partner will also have to compromise. And because of that a train of your marriage goes smoothly.
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Like we cannot clap from one hand, or the bike will not run if the one of the wheel is broken and that's how the marriage also works. A person can do everything, like compromises, communicate properly, make time for other but if the other partner is not reciprocating than it's not worth it. Both of the partner have to do their bit so that their married life works properly.
One thing to also note that in healthy married life you have to communicate clearly. Now in every marriages there will be disagreement and thus both the partner have to communicate to sort out the differences and come up with for the middle ground. Every partner have their own ways of thinking and thus respecting that as well as compromising helps to create healthy environment. In my marriage also we have a lot of disagreement, fight, but at last we communicate, talk and clear the differences as soon as possible.
Communication is the real key for the happy married life. Also you have to take out time from your busy schedule to be with your partner. In my case if I cannot find in the weekdays, I try to compensate on weekends and also I try to go on a vacation so that I spend most of the time with my partner. And thus you need these times with your partner so that you can talk your heart out as well as clear out all the differences.
In the mean time you need your own time too. Though couple time is important, your own time is equally important, because that time will help you to recharge, thing about yourself and enjoy your personal interests. Sometimes the interests of you and your partner doesn't match and thus to keep your passion alive you have to have your own time.
Along with that it's absolutely necessary to forgive. You don't want to keep fighting over the same thing again and again which actually is not good for your married life. If one does mistakes and says sorry it's ok to forgive as well as forget.
These are some of the tips which I follow to keep my marriage life better as well as healthy.