I started as senior editor at PureWow in 2016. A couple months later, I got engaged. And in the spring of 2017, I got married. Now, it’s 2025. I have two children, a dog, a mortgage and what else? Oh, right, a husband.
Romance certainly wanes when you’re living for the moments between cold-flus and locating mysterious odors—did the dog pee somewhere or is there an errant diaper hiding under the couch? And though I’m proponent of talk therapy as much as the next English major, scheduling sessions with your partner when it’s already hard enough to watch Severance together after bedtime means that we’re often putting bigger picture priorities on the back burner in favor of just, I don’t know, zoning the eff out together after a long day? Thankfully, there’s the internet. And over the many years as an editor—and reader—of things that go on said internet—PureWow has doled out some fantastic, marriage-saving advice. Here, in honor of 15 years of PureWow, are 15 tips that always rise to the top, straight from the archives to your screen.
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