One of the challenges we face when marrying later in life is combining personalities and households. Are you both organized throughout your life? In your work and in your home? Are you droppers, drapers or do you immediately hang your clothes up? Are your closets organized with different sections, or is everything just stuffed in?

Having the same personalities at home makes for a much smoother living style. If you are at opposite ends of keeping things clean and tidy, then the one who is not neat will drive the other one crazy. These are some of the Big Decisions you need to address before marrying. How you work out these issues before walking down the aisle will help build a successful marriage of communication and respect. Especially if you both work and your time together is limited to evenings, weekends and vacations. Big Daddy organizes his shoes and clothes to a point. He is not compulsive about keeping them up and  I don’t mind helping him out a time or two, but if I had to do it all the time I wouldn’t appreciate living that way.  I’d still love him to pieces, but we would have to establish some ground rules or get a daily maid. That is my ace card!

Hugs,

Elizabeth & Marsha