How To Save Your Marriage? Separate toilets, apparently.

Wanna know the secret to a happy marriage?

Regular sex? Flowers and chocolate? Nope.

Separate bathrooms is the key. Honey, get your own dunny. Because separate toilets, cars, and TVs have been flagged as key for a happy marriage, according to a British study.

Researchers polled 2000 happily-married couples and found that alongside essential traits such as honesty, trust and compromise, having two cars, two toilets and at least one night a week away from computers or tablets will lead to long lasting love.

Also on the list? Being happy to share your phone code or social media passwords with your partner. Because TRUST.

The modern marriage tips were devised by relationships therapist Andy Gibney in his book, How To Seduce Your Wife (or Anyone Else’s). Delightful.

He told the Daily Mail  while trust, compromise and honesty are generally regarded as the most important things in a marriage, for most people, it’s not that simple.

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“In the modern world, marriages are having to survive against a host of new technology with many couple falling out over what to watch on the TV or one or both of you spending too much time focusing on your computers, tablets or mobile phones,” he said.

“After being married for a while, it’s easy to find you are stuck in a rut and not really paying each other any attention, but hopefully some of these ‘secrets’ will be helpful.”

According to the poll, remembering each other’s birthdays and important anniversaries come in as third and fourth most important ingredients for lasting love.  Accepting each other’s faults comes fifth.

Yes, there are the regular “healthy couple” tips like compromising, saying ‘I love you’ regularly and being able to laugh at each other, but the list also includes having no ex-partners on your Facebook friends list, and occasionally shaving your bits.

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It also emerged that three quarters of people think you’re more likely to have a happy and successful marriage if you are friends before becoming an item, while 95 per cent still consider romance to be important.

Less than one in 10 people want traditional flowers and chocolates, with almost a third of respondents wanting small gestures instead; holding hands, little surprises, personal romantic gestures every now and then.

“It should be obvious that it is communication that keeps people together, whether that’s verbal or non-verbal, but life has a way of getting in the way,” he says.

The message of the book, he says, is to pretend you are still in those early throes of the relationship: where you were doing the things that make you happy.  Kissing, being intimate, laughing and listening to each other, and pretending you don’t poo, evidently.

The full list here:

50 Secrets to a Happy Marriage:

 What’s your tip for marital bliss?