Married to Mrs. Right? You still have to work at your marriage.

So after years for searching for Mrs Right, you finally found her. No more instant noodles and fast food and late nights  it's just fresh soups (loads of rice), lots of periodical home redecoration and life is good! Many men say "Before marriage, you yearn for your wife but after marriage, the "Y" becomes silent" while ladies will say "Before marriage, a man declares that he would lay down his life to serve you but after marriage, he won't even lay down his laptop to listen to you".

But what doesn't occur to most men is that often, Mrs. Right thinks she is ALWAYS right. No, this is no feminist or chauvinist agenda. In many homes the women just insist that they are right and unfortunately some men just give in, in order to avoid conflict and others: (in order to just prove the other wrong) argue endlessly, each trying to have the last word. The truth is whatever will not matter in 10 years time is not worth arguing over at all.

Most men are not the "Always-be-right" type. Neither are most women. But people of this type, in my experience, tend not to realize they do it, nor realize the damage it does in their relationships. It's more a certain personality type. These are the people who, even when proven wrong, will twist the situation in such a way as to show that the other person was wrong as well. They often (especially when young) do not realize that they aren't really winning arguments - people around them are humoring them and stopping the conversation, not actually changing their minds. Living with an always-be-right type can be annoying and lonely, because you can't discuss anything without the meta-issue of "who's in the wrong here"? hanging over everything. They are like a sort of  "accuracy police".

On the bright side, a lot of the "wife is always right"  generally depends on how "right" the wife is over time. If a husband can't trust the wife's decisions then every little thing has to be evaluated, and honestly, that's just exhausting and the same goes for women when relying on their husbands for certain decisions.

I suspect that that the view of "just tell her she is right" is held by husbands who don't want to take the time to actually work things out with their wives. All that communication stuff is for chicks, they think, better to tell her she's right so they can go back to the AFCON finals.

In my observation I have found that both men and women, don't communicate very well. They don't express themselves well, and they don't listen to or understand others well. This leads to things like women saying "Oh, I don't mind if you go out with your friends" when really they should have said "I'm lonely when you go out with your friends, would you please watch a movie with me?". Then the guy hears "I don't mind if you go" and doesn't notice that she also said "It would be nice if you were back before 8 pm so we could do xyz" and that causes a problem.

Many women have been taught by our society to downplay their wants/needs and camouflage them in soft language, Somehow this is good because she is putting her husband's needs first, but this makes them unable to make direct requests, a thing my husband,  finds annoying. Just say it! I do think I'm changing, but it will take a while

Some men seem to need some instruction on how to be good listeners and how to pick up on nuances of conversation. Not all men though. But men are better at noticing visual cues rather than verbal cues (that's why they are so good at computer games and can watch a football match without getting dizzy)

Men and women tend to have different styles of verbal communication so that often they are talking past each other. It takes a concerted effort for couples to communicate well, and frankly a lot of people are lazy and don't want to put forth the effort.

So what if it's pointless that the wife insists on painting the walls red and white instead of cream. That doesn't make her "wrong" and you don't need to win an argument about that. Perhaps that's what some of the guys mean when they say "just give in, tell her she is right". If a man wants something a certain way just because he wants it, he should say so and tell his wife it's not because her ideas aren't important instead of trying to pose an obviously self-serving factual argument. Women can easily detect that, and it's insulting.

Finally, As long as you both share the same core values the rest should not be blown out of proportion. You have a great wife, a job, a home... do you love every color on every wall in the house? No. Does your wife like all of your hobbies and habits? No. You bend on the small stuff and work together to resolve the big stuff. What makes marriage work by putting the needs of the other before your own...like Jesus did for the church. When you have two people who work together at their marriage, it forms such a bond of strength, friendship, love, and trust... And it is so worth it.