Scott Stanley, co-director of the Center for Marital and Family Studies at The University of Denver, offers five tips to help couples strengthen their marriages:

1. Approach marriage like you would a long-term financial investment. Marriages that thrive are those in which people continue to make deposits.

2. Develop with your partner a mutual sense of the future. Take the idea of forever as a given, not an option. Don’t threaten it by bringing up divorce or separation.

3. Make your marriage a priority. Everyone is busy, but too often the things that matter most are pushed to the background or taken for granted in favor of the most pressing need.

4. Sacrifice in little ways. That means both partners. Do something your spouse enjoys but that you ordinarily would not choose.

5. Find time to talk regularly as friends. Conversations between spouses often are dominated by issues and problems. Just enjoy each other’s company.

Investments like these will reap a successful return in your marriage.

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