The Daily Marriage

It's the daily little things in the married life that make us scratch our heads, get frustrated, or just laugh.

Every so often on this site I'll run an article or blog referring to The Daily Marriage. The Daily Marriage looks at things like eating together, getting the mail, how a married couple spends their Saturdays or Sundays, those seemingly small ordinary things that--gathered together--make up so much of our married lives.

Things like...Tad and Janice's lunch table and their crashing mustard jars.

You see, when Tad and Janice were first married they had trouble keeping their mustard and mayonnaise jars from falling over and spilling their contents on the table. Why?

It all came down to table habits. After using the mustard jar, Tad's family screwed the jar lid back on the top of the jar. When they passed it to each other, they naturally grabbed the secured top and lid of the jar.

However, in Janice's family, people merely rested the lid on the condiment jars as they used them. Consequently, they had developed the habit of grabbing the jar from the side when they passed it to each other.

So...put these two habits together and you know what happened. Janice passed the mustard to Tad who grabbed it by a lid merely resting on the top of the jar. The jar slid out of his grasp and spilled on the table. For a while, Tad and Janice were frustrated with each other--until they started to laugh about it and came up with a new jar habit they could both live with.

Mustard. Sounds silly. But it's part of The Daily Marriage. What's in your Daily Marriage?